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Harley Benton TE-20MN CA Standard Series

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Electric Guitar

Basswood body
Bolt-on neck: Maple
Fretboard: Maple
Dot fretboard inlays
Neck profile: Modern C
Dual action truss rod
Fretboard radius: 350 mm
Scale: 648 mm
Nut width: 42 mm
22 Frets
Pickup: 2 TE-Style single coils
1 Volume knob and 1 tone knob
3-Way toggle switch
Chrome hardware
Die-cast machine heads
Ex-factory string thickness: .009" - .042"
Colour: Candy apple red high gloss

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Colour	Red
Pickups	SS
Fretboard	Maple
Tremolo	None
Body	Basswood
Top	None
Neck	Maple
Frets	22
Scale	648 mm
Incl. Case	No
Incl. Bag	No

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All I can say is: wow!

tormal, 28.10.2020

Telecasters have never been my favourites, but I wanted a versatile guitar to lay in my room so I can pick it up and play a few notes anytime I want - without opening the case of my other expensive guitars. Those are all stratocasters and superstrats that is why I chose this HB Telecaster. I checked it many times, decided not to order it many times, but finally I did. And I did not regret it.
The guitar looks beautiful, the CAR painting is just perfect. The modern C shape neck is bolder than the necks on my other guitars but it is surprisingly good and easy to play. The frets need some polish work, right after the replacement of the factory strings I will do that. The edges of the frets are well worked no sharp-touch feel on them. Tuners and tuning stability is much better than I thought. I think with new and branded strings it may even be better. The tailpiece is classis telecaster type, but the intonation and string height was almost perfectly set up on delivery.
The sound of the pickups is okay though a bit muddy to my taste. I spent two nights playing on the guitar through my Helix LT and I really did not realize how quickly time flew, it was so enjoyous to play this little beauty. I think the hardware is good enough to deserve better pickups for the tonal upgrade. The only problem is that new pickups will cost more than the whole guitar did...

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Wish, we had that 40 years ago

Karsten aus C., 23.10.2019

Oooookay,
so my Candy Apple Red and Metallic Blue TM20 arrived today. Outer cardboard box was slightly knackered, but inner boxes were okay, except for the styrofoam neck rests, who gave their structural integrity to protect the guitar inside.
No more plastic fillers, but only crushed paper, which I like. Try folded cardboard for the neck rests, you might get rid of those plastic pieces, too.
Have not received any goodies with the guitars, no stickers, no picks, nothing.
From the first looks, the guitars might even come from different factories. The metallic blue guitar is significantly heavier than the red guitar. Haven't had them on the scales - yet - but I'd say the difference is at least 1 kg.
Paintwork is more than acceptable. The blue is a tad lighter than expected, but the red one is that kind of deep "Oooh Yeah!" red that gives me an instant ... cough. Let's leave it there.
The blue one actually has a three ply scratchguard, so that's a pro. The chrome bridge looks better in reality than on the photos. I will check intonation and - yes, it's a Tele, you won't be able to intonate it properly - if it's okay, the chrome bridges may even stay.
Can't say anything about playability yet, as the guitars need to settle down a bit and adjust to the climate here, but so far I'm not disappointed.
Well, there are niggles, though. The neck for instance is cheap. Feels good, but it's not, what you would expect from a proper Tele neck. A maple fretboard Tele neck is hewn from one piece of maple, the truss is set in from the back, hence the prominent skunk stripe. With this neck, they just slapped a maple fretboard on. I know, it is possibly cheaper to use the same neck blanks for all of the HB Teles and then just use different fretboards, but, well, it's not THAT important, but I just noticed it.
Both guitars have a nice first feel. The neck is definitively NOT Tele,, it is wider and flatter than the usual Tele neck. Fret sprout is absent and the narrow thin frets are looking okay -n even though they are not polished. Switches and potentiometers feel solid. Tuners feel and look cheap, but they might do their job.
The red guitar has some issues with the strings not lining up properly, the strings are shifted about 2 mm to the bass side, but this might as well be dealt with by adjusting the bridge, there is enough travel there and then it might even align better with the pickups. The strings are not THAT far off, it's more a bit of a niggle.
Oh dear, the blue guitar REALLY is a heavy one. Don't want to wear that for a long gig ....
Both guitars fell off the production line and passed QC at the 15th of July 2019. Both were checked by Alan.
So, what is my verdict after just ogling over the new TE20 from Harley Benton?
Hardware is better than expected. Triple ply pickguards may stay. Chrome bridge is not too bad, but will be changed to a proper string-through-body part later. Not as soon as expected, but at a later stage.
Paintwork is as good as any Fender.Impressive.
I wish we had guitars of that quality at that price when I was younger. Now I'm in my mid 50's, but when I started guitars, we have had proper sh!t for ridiculous money, you have it good, you don't know how bad we've had it.
Am I happy? If the rest - playability, sound - is up to par, I could not be more happy. Buy the red one - the blue one is too heavy - help yourself to a 5-way super switch and some better pots, caps - without looking at those, they can't be good - and tuners, and you will have a modern Tele. Drop in some better pups if you have to and for way less than 200 €/£/$ you will have a fine, gigworthy instrument. If you ask me "Buy a TE20 HB, pimp it up and put the difference between that and a MiM into gear, lessons, beer?" my answer will always be "Fuck, yeah!"

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Great guitar for the price

B MacIntosh, 05.01.2020

I've been playing guitar as a hobby for over 35 years but somehow Telecasters were never on my radar- I don't know why but they didn't really appeal to me. My opinion changed a few months ago when I played a Tele for the first time and quickly realised that I had to have one.

Given that I already own several guitars, I didn't want to spend a fortune. My instinct was to go for a Squier Affinity, however I kept reading good things about Harley Benton so I decided to give this a try.

I'm so glad I did, because in my opinion this is actually better. It feels a bit more substantial (especially at the neck), and it has the classic 3 saddle bridge (with Squier you only get this on the top of the range Classic Vibe models). It's also a lot cheaper!

The metallic red finish looks really good, and I love the maple fretboard. It feels good to play and there are no rough edges. In terms of sound, it performs well. The neck pick-up has a nice warm tone while the bridge pickup has a lot of bite and produces some great 'crunch' sounds.

The guitar was received surprisingly well set-up: the intonation was perfect, the action reasonably low (most cheaper guitars have very high & badly cut nuts, but this looked really good) and there was no need for truss rod adjustments.

Tuning stability was great for the first few weeks. Now it needs daily tweaking but I suspect that this might be due to the ageing stock strings which feel very flimsy indeed.

The only issue I had was that the pickup selector stopped working on first use. Removing the control panel, I noticed that the rear of the switch was covered in a powder-like substance. Blowing this away solved the problem.

For the price I'd say this is a very good buy indeed. Obviously it's not in the same league as a Fender, but for an amateur like myself with multiple guitars it's an excellent choice.

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Beautiful guitar, terrible neck, bad customer service

Mostro, 20.08.2020

The finish of the guitar is extremely beautiful, but the neck feels too cheap and it had fret buzz all around, no way to be fixed with setup. I know, it is a budget guitar, it was going to be my 5th HB, but quality doesn't come even closer to the others, it just felt as a different brand.

I had good expectations after the other reviews and youtube reviews, but I guess at this price point it is matter of hit or miss with QC. The other HB guitars I have are more than double the price, but still being budget they easily compete with my Gibson LP Studio. I knew that for this one neck pickup sound was going to be bad (too muddy), because of youtube reviews, but I was prepared to change it. Bridge is good enough to stay for some time.

So far, all good, no problem, I return the guitar and buy something else, this things can happen you know? Although I have been Thomann customer for years, never had to do a return, I would say that is quite good, but this is where it all went downhill. I can't go out of home because health issues and it took me almost a week for them to arrange a pickup from home (me paying a small reasonable fee) as at the beginning it was denied saying the only option was for me to go to the public post office, when I know they do make UPS home pickups.

In the order there were some things I bought for this guitar that I returned, but I kept 4 beautiful HB volume knobs valued in less than 10 euros, so, since I didn't return the whole order I lose the 15 euros that I paid for the delivery at home (order was less than 199 euros). So, those very expensive budget HB volume knobs I have now. You know, this is because those small letters big company have somewhere and we irresponsibly never read or see.

So, save some trouble to you, do not buy this guitar so you don't risk a potential refund, if you still what to buy from Thomann, which I get because they have nice stuff, go for a higher tier HB guitars, they are awesome, go for the CST 24Ts, any of them, or if you want T-Style, take the fusion T. In what regards to myself, more likely this was the last buy from Thomann, I have enough Harley Benton guitars, nowadays you can find the mainstream brands at the same price (or lower) and equivalent policies in other online stores.

This is not a one time bad customer experience for me, couple of months ago I bought a B stock guitar, they sent the wrong model, same guitar with different pickups. I got compensation and the guitar was amazing still, but that's not the point.

People in customer service has been not helpful, impersonal and zero vibes, and come on, you sell music machines, you need to have some vibes. They are busy, I understand that, but they make you notice how little time they have, although they are supposed to be there for us. The people they show in youtube should be the ones taking over customer service, they seem cool (good PR). Some consulting in customer experience would work some good for Thomann customer service.

Good luck if you decide to taker this guitar.

UPDATE: No refund for the 15 euros, just a free shipping code, which will be only useful to buy less than 199 euros. Not cool as I am tied to buy from Thomann again, but well, of course I will take advantage of it, good marketing strategy. Still more likely will be last time, there are other nice online stores located in Germany also. By the way, they took 4 days after receiving the guitar to inspect it, and the refund is still not back to me, I guess it will happen on a weekday, so since I sent the guitar back it will be around 10 days to get the money again.

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