Harley Benton ST-62DLX VW Vintage Series

Olen sanaton. Omistan useita kitaroita, suosikkeina, superstrato, ibanezin high end hevikitara ja Amerikan Gibson Les Paul Jr. Tämä ei häviä näille yhtään. Päin vastoin, frettityö on parempaa kuin indonesian superstratossa mikä on lähes kahdeksan kertaa kalliimpi. Tämä kitara twängää, piiskaa ja rokkaa. Minulle on sattunut täydellinen pala puuta.

Käytän pääosin studiossa ja en usko, että livenäkään olisi mitään ongelmia. Vire pysyy pakkasellakin.

Kaikin puolin hintaisekseen eriomainen kitara.

Viimeistely varsin hyvä, erityisesti nauhat olivat viimeistelty paremmin kuin monessa kallimmassa kitarassa.

Kaikki elektroniikkakomponentit olivat yllättävän hyviä ja jämäköitä. Mikit myös varsin kelvot.

Yksilöissä tosin paljon eroa. Yhdessä ei toiminut sähköt ollenkaan. Puissa toisinaan oksakohtia yms.

Kaula on Stratoksi yllättävän lättänällä radiuksella. Tulee enemmänkin paksikaulainen Telecaster mieleen.

Update!
I switched all the pickups and pots and guitar sounds awesome. Problem was with the quality control as my other HB stratos sounds good. Sadly I just got bad piece. Also this version has very bad tuners compared to my vintage series HB, so have to change it too.

Still happy with the guitar. It plays like fender with the 10th of the price :)

First impressions was excellent. It really felt like 1000? guitar and I could not be happier!!! But after few hours of use I noticed some terrible problems with this guitar. I don't really recommend this to anyone, but maybe just for beginners or somebody who wants cool looking strato. I have played about 12 years and I expect much from my instrument, so I can understand why some beginner wont mind the problems I have noticed.

Pros:
-Looks awesome and nice finishing
-Frets are very well done
-Feels awesome (neck is bit fatter than in Fenders, but feels quite same)
-Good sustain on some strings (down below why not good on others)
-Pickups/tone/volume are very nice for the price
-Very solid feel. I say its even better feeling than on my Squier Classic Vibe (400?). I have also Squier Affinity (200?) and this guitar makes it feel like toy (Sadly I still prefer the Affinity. Reasons below)

Cons:
-Pickups are not wired like they should! Positions 3 and 4 are same (no difference in sound) and 5 sounds ALSO same, but without working tone?? Hum cancelling (parrel) is on 3-4-5 positions and not in 1-2. Haven't ever played with strato like this. Usually 2 and 4 are hum cancelling, but not with this. I doubt it's meant like that. This is something I could fix so not big problem for me!
-Nut grooves are VERY tight. Strings get stuck on it and guitar is out of tone 90% of the time (even way more than on my cheap squiers. Cannot use tremolo at all and even with cheapest Squier I can use them heavily without losing the tone... This is again something I could fix by buying Fender nut and maybe new tuners too are needed.
-Pickups are not centered!! Weak tone on high E string because pole is faraway from strings... All stratos have some missaligment, but never ever have I noticed this much and it also effects the tone. High E dont have that treble tone I need, but it sounds bassies than others. Don't really know how could I fix this... Maybe new pickguard, but I fear it has the same problem...
-Tremolo saddles dont have any groove. This seems to meant to be like that (like on some vintage saddles), but it's bit weird to me.IM SURE it makes guitar go even more out of tune when using tremolo... I also noticed that High E strings is not even centered! Its on farside of the saddle. Looks quite bad to be honest, but not sure does it effect anything. So this guitar would need new saddle too..
-All the gold parts feel very weak and cheap. I was expexting that, but it really takes away the feeling of DLX.

I was really disapointed.. Maybe I was just hoping too much. Hopefully Thomann could fix these issues, because this guitar has soo much potential and I love so many things on this guitar.

Or maybe I just had one bad piece and there is many good guitars. Don't know...

I was blown away when I received this guitar. I was sure I would have to do a lot of work to make it feel good, file frets etc. But no... Fret work was really really good, and no sharp fret edges.
The neck and fretboard feels really good too. I can't believe what you get for the price, feels like they accidentally sent me guitar 5-7x more expensive.
Only negative thing so far is the bridge screws that are a bit sharp when you palm mute etc.
Regardless of the a bit sharp screws, this is most comfortable guitar to use out of all my guitars, and this is also the cheapest one I own.
Of course I might have gotten lucky and got good piece that was checked well.
I'm not good with guitar electronic stuff, wiring etc, so can't really say much about that.
Really happy with my purchase so far.