Customer reviews about Harley Benton Electric Guitar Kit ST-Style

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It works

Bobbex 30.09.2024

Install guide is not the best, but guitar works. A little bit low quality, I expected more. The filler applied on the guitar wood body does not allow easy customized painting.
But in overall it is a perfect tool to learn electric guitar. My 11year old daughter will use it.

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Works well enough

scottasaigon 05.02.2025

Great intro for building, but the quality of hardware is not brilliant. The strings are awful. The neck is surprisingly good for the price. The body is lightweight and not superbly finished. Took some sanding to get if right and even then, dying the wood left clear colour differences where the wood absorbed at different rates across the body.

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Basic Construction Kit

Aris Panag 28.09.2021

This kit includes just about everything that you need to build your own "Stratocaster" copy guitar. Although the body and neck manufacturing quality and woods are good, be aware that some (most) of the components & accessories are of low quality. The are absolutely basic to get you going. In case you need it for a nice base to build your own guitar you will have to upgrade most of the components, such as pickups, keys, tremolo bridge.. BUT cannot complain for the price - this is what you get for a fraction of the price of a finished guitar.

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Not the best kit

Mr Pinball 28.05.2025

Like the title says, it's not the best kit, or at least mine wasn't. I'll split my review into 3 sections:
1. Hardware and electrics
2. Body
3. Neck

1. Like most guitar kits hardware and electrics are cheap. Serviceable if your just building for fun, but if you want the final product to be a quality instrument you should really consider upgrading everything, or at the very least the tuners, nut and pickups.

2. The body wood, although routed fine and unblemished, is incredibly soft. The slightest knock leaves a dent in the wood, and I mean the slightest! It also means the guitar struggles to stay in tune. On the plus side it's quite light, which is a positive in my eyes.

3. The neck is this guitar's saving grace and the reason I haven't sold it on! It did need a little work on the frets, which is to be expected. Once the ends were sorted and given a quick level and polish it was great. Real easy to play. I finished it with a satin clear coat and it feels great in the hand.

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Quality control

Deltabluesman 02.01.2020

String heads get stuck in the tremelo block.. To save time and frustration of an exchange, I made some modifications for string removal by using 'pop rivets' pressed in the string hole of the trem-block and then knocking out the pin. This reduced the size of the string hole preventing the string heads from getting stuck in the block .
Pickups are noisy, even with shielding paint in the cavities and shielding under the pick guard.

I really wasn't expecting much from this cheap guitar. I repair pedals and amps and only needed something for testing them....

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Nice way to practice building own guitars

j-flat 07.11.2021

All the parts on the set are quite cheap build and you can feel it in the end result, but if you’re not planning to record yourself playing or play live shows its more than enough

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Nice DIY kit

zoundfreak 03.09.2021

I purchased two of these kits for my kids. We built them together. All parts were included and build quality was ok. All frets were too long and super sharp. A little sanding was required before painting. The overall sound was good enough for my kids. They love their own guitars.

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Anonymous 15.04.2016

Features: On the body of the guitar there is a small knot but clearly visible. There are some discoloration on the fretboard , some parts are light brown in colour and some are nearly black. Overall the guitar looks nice and works good.
Sound: Guitar plays very nicely, good sounding.
Overall this product is very nice, and not hard to assemble. I would recommend this product for anyone who wants to start their journey with making their own guitars.

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Good with a bit of work

peripherylover 05.11.2019

There were some poorly routed holes
There's alot of fretbuzz higher up the neck
Those are the only problems the electronics work fine and sounds fine as well.
So a great project guitar for learning to work on your own instruments

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'Pretend to be a Luthier' Kit

Anonymous 26.10.2014

I bought this kit as a mess around/throw away project to keep me entertained whilst waiting for exam results. As per usual, Thomann's delivery service was fantastic, prompt and easy to track the entire way.

Whilst the cost of this kit is truely great value, do bear in mind that you'll have to spend at least another £50 on sprays, lacquers, primers, paint, wet and dry paper, more spray for when you do it wrong etc IF you want to do this well.
But it would work out of the box in the plain finish if desired.

Also bear in mind, the basic DIY skills advertised are stretched to what I would consider pretty advanced IF you want to do it to a high standard.

All in all, for the price paid this kit is a great way to get to know the basic components of an electric guitar. Even if it goes horribly wrong, it's a great experience and worth trying again! I'll be getting another.

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