Harley Benton R-446 Blood Metallic

Packaging was a problem as the box the guitar was in, was rather small an not taped secure. This resulted in an open inner box and the pointy part of the headstock hitting and punching through the outer box. So when delivered to me the tip was smashed. Anyhow it doesn' affect the guitar which for my needs is very good. Very good construction for neck frets and body painting. I like the thin neck and flat fretboard. The fretboard was dry though and frets need to be polished. I like that the parts cavity has graphite (?) paint and clean wiring. Pots/knobs work fine. Action was high, but setting it low and fixing intonation was easy so bridge is good. I like the pickups. Playability is very good in my opinion. Tuners seem to work ok so far but if something is to be changed will be the tuners and nut.

I bought the red R-446 after looking around for a guitar for some time. I had just gotten my paycheck and spent it immediately on this, and I have to say I am blown away. It cost me not even a fraction of what my paycheck gave me, and it still played and looked like a dream. I'm a sucker for 80's style guitars and this reminds me a lot of late 80's-early 90's Korean and Japanese made superstrats. The two humbuckers sounds fantastic, though the tone and volume knobs might be a bit too heavily lubed leading it to feel abit heavy. The neck is also a bit too thick for my taste, but that's only my preference. All in all, a fantastic sounding, looking and playing guitar for literally less than 150 euros. I'll be supporting Thomann and Harley Benton even more in the future. Keep up the good work by bringing excellent instruments to the masses.