I am NOT the best guitar player in the world. Even less so when playing electric rather than acoustic. But I've always fancied owning a Telecaster to accompany the American Deluxe Series Strat I teated myself to a couple of years or so ago. It is just the high cost that's stopped me.
Then I saw some reviews of the Harley Benton TE-40 TBK Deluxe Series made and sold by Thomann in Germany - a Telecaster type guitar being sold for around £123 (€138 /$156 US) - and, as a result, snapped one up knowing their returns policy is pretty good if it proved to be rubbish.
And it proved to be pretty darn good straight out of the box with minimal setting up needed. It plays and sounds fantastic, so I was pretty surprised.
Is it as good as a proper American made Telecaster? Probably not. But this thing costs a TENTH of the price and looks, plays and sounds fantastic - FOR ONLY £100!!!
Has anyone else experience of Harley Benton guitars, good or bad?
Then I saw some reviews of the Harley Benton TE-40 TBK Deluxe Series made and sold by Thomann in Germany - a Telecaster type guitar being sold for around £123 (€138 /$156 US) - and, as a result, snapped one up knowing their returns policy is pretty good if it proved to be rubbish.
And it proved to be pretty darn good straight out of the box with minimal setting up needed. It plays and sounds fantastic, so I was pretty surprised.
Is it as good as a proper American made Telecaster? Probably not. But this thing costs a TENTH of the price and looks, plays and sounds fantastic - FOR ONLY £100!!!
Has anyone else experience of Harley Benton guitars, good or bad?