Harley Benton R-456FR BK Progressive Series

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Harley Benton R-456FR BK Progressive Series
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Not great but ok
Alex_S1979 05.07.2021
Overall build quality is quite good: body, neck, fingerboard is well-polished as well as frets.

Tuning pegs are crap. Two of them have a significant backlash and you cannot fix that because there no any adjustment responsible for that. Oh! And you rotate it towards the headstock end to tighten the string top 3 strings and towards the bridge to tighten the bottom 3 strings which is confusing and definitely sucks

Pickups are not very impressive. there is a luck of high frequencies using the same amp and cable, but can be adjusted with eq so ok

Kit strings just suck - better replace them first thing

Volume control knob is awkwardly displaced but rotates quite smooth.

And the biggest dissapointment is a Floyd Rose tremolo which is FR Special on this guitar. It's an absolute piece of shit which it does not keep tuning at all. The quality of tuning screws is terrible - you cannot adjust them smoothly probably because of the bad metal and as a result bad screw-thread

I can compare it with Cort X250 of the same price and looks very similar in terma of build quality (though the headstok is 6 in line on Cort which looks better to me). But Cort has EMG pickups. And though it has a licensed Cort Floyd Rose tremolo the build quality is much better and it never gets out of tune for me despite the "true" FR Special

It is still quite a good deal for the price but I would have never bought it again honestly
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Shipped to me with buzz on Low E and A string
Meroon 07.03.2024
Like the title says, it has buzz. I went to a music shop to get it restringed and they still brought it back to me with buzz. Makes playing it kinda disappointing
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Harley Benton R-456FR BK Progressive Series