Harley Benton Fusion-T HH EB OCT

A good tool for your money. There were problems with the potentiometer (eliminated at my own expense), uneven frets, defects in wood processing. The main problem is the false 3 strings, giving out a kind of vibrato. Support refused to decide this. By offering only a refund on terms where I am losing money anyway . I leave the guitar, because the instrument is now needed and I spent a lot of money on shipping, taxes, currency conversion and repairs from the master (about 50%, hello to buyers from Russia). But if you are choosing between a $ 1000 guitar and this one, of course the choice is obvious, but not bad for its price.

СПУСТЯ БОЛЕЕ ПОЛУГОДА - ОЦЕНКА ВЫШЕ СРЕДНЕЙ, ХОРОШО, ЛУЧШЕЕ ЗА ЭТУ СТОИМОСТЬ
После переосмысления, подержав в руках японский телекастер вдвое дороже хочу сказать, что эта обыгрывает функционально. >Гриф очень схожий на ощупь и финишь можно не отличить, если держать с закрытыми глазами. Волчок 1, не сильный приемлемый. Для России - настройка у мастера 3к (лады, потенциометры, проверка и блокировка машинки либо её отстройка) и гитара в порядке.
>Тюнеры: неплохие, держат +- как клюсон на японской гитаре, расстраиваются в рандомном порядке несколько раз в неделю
Строит отлично, не хуже японца
Для чистого звука - может показаться темноватым, чем синглы, просто свой звук без стекла
>Металл - идеально (Сатриани, Ван Хален, Гэри Мур, Металлика) - звучит без отвращения на лампе и цифре, разницы в тоне с оригиналом не замечаю
>Фона - нет, в отличии от синглов

The Fusion-T HH EB OCT is my 4th Harley Benton Guitar and the most impressive to date. All the guitars, however, have been wonderful purchases and are amongst my favourite instruments in my collection. The service from Thomann was, as always, exceptional, the guitar arriving at my door, in Nottinghamshire UK, in 4 days from Germany. It arrived in a box which had zero marks on it, so very well done to UPS. I was amazed when I unboxed it to find a completely flawless guitar which was, incredibly, bang in tune ( after such a long journey ! ) The action and intonation were perfect and upon close inspection the guitar is of as high a quality as any of the instruments I own ( including some expensive guitars ) I plugged it into my Bugera V22 Infinium amp and the tones from the Roswell pickups are delightful. Crystal clear. The volume and tone control working like a dream. The option of coil splitting makes this guitar remarkably versatile in its sonic capabilities. The Wilkinson trem is another excellent appointment, no problems with tuning stability ( the locking tuners and the graph tech tusq nut are quality and most likely contribute to this ) The ebony board and stainless steel frets on a beautiful maple neck make for a gorgeous playing experience. Anyone thinking of buying one of these guitars, from my experience, I would say do not hesitate, it is by far the very best £269 I have ever spent. Thank you to all at Thomann for the amazing quality of this guitar.

I played guitar for almost 30 years now, and i had many cheap and expensive gear through that time. I am not guitar hero by any means but i manage. Always been a Les paul/humbucker fun, but ocassionally felt in love with telecasters.

Features
Great specs for guitar within this price range. Every part specified works very well, neck is little bigger in my hands than i expected, but feel very natural. Given the humbackers and tremolo this is tele only by design, but it feels like a tele under the hands. Split coil is great option but i am not fun of the pull pots, i ll rather have switch or push push knob.

Sound
This is not tipical sound for telecaster. It is solid humbucker tone, very dark, but in a good way. That tone will not be for everyone, because it sounds like yout tone pot is on a half way. I really like that tone, it is somewhat comparable with my 1990 Gibson LP studio. Clean sounds are good, especially on neck split coil position. Cleans very vell on the volume pot. With marshall/Tube screamer combination this guitar really shines, od/dist sounds are very good but dark, creamy sounding. This could be a potential problem in band situation, you might want to add additional treble freq with amp/pedals eq.
Split coils sound are lacking in volume, and only sounds good at neck position.

Quality
Last Hb guitar i have ordered, Lp Custom line, i returned because of quality issues. This one, which is actally cheaper, are really good instrument. I checked every detail, and found only one, barely noticable error in paint job. Paint, binding, hardware, neck joint, neck and body work are really good, especially for this price point. With tremolo use, it goes out of tune pretty quick, but with out of the box setup; professional setup, i assume, will solve that problem. Frets will need some minor polishing. Stock strings are actually pretty good.

Conclusion
This guitar is nothing like my expensive Gibsons / Schecters / Kramers in the terms of feel when playing. But it does sound very good (with that specific dark sound), and it is really quality bulit. I will have no problem going on stage with it (with eq in mind). I think this is the best relatively cheap guitar that i ever owned and its already earned its place at the wall with the others.