Harley Benton ST-80FR MN SSB

Electric Guitar

Body: American basswood
Ergonomic body shape
Bolt-on neck: Roasted Canadian flamed maple
Double action truss rod with adjustment wheel
Fingerboard: Roasted Canadian maple with rounded edges
Dot fingerboard inlays and glow-in-the-dark side markers
Right-angled rounded fingerboard edges
Neck profile: Asymmetric-C (thickness at the 1st fret: 20.5 mm, at the 22nd fret: 23.5 mm)
Compound fingerboard radius: 305 mm - 406 mm (12" - 16")
Scale: 648 mm (25.5")
22 stainless-steel medium jumbo frets 2.9 mm with rounded edges
Nut width: 43 mm
Pickup: Tesla Plasma-X1b Alnico V Humbucker (bridge)
1 volume control
Bridge: Floyd Rose 1000 Tremolo
Machine heads: Jinho J-02 15:1 with HB-Logo
Black nickel-plated hardware
Strings: Elixir Coated .010 - .046
Colour: Silver Sparkle Burst high-gloss

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Available since March 2026
Item number 594803
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Colour Silver Sparkle
Body Linden
Top None
Neck Roasted Flamed Maple
Fretboard Roasted Flamed Maple
Frets 22
Scale 648 mm
Pickups H
Tremolo Floyd Rose
incl. Bag No
Including Case No

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Good potential but flawed

MarkO82 05.04.2026

I was excited for the launch of the new ST-80FR models, particularly the single pickup version. Not many companies offer the sparkle finish, roasted maple neck, stainless steel frets and Floyd Rose 1000 for this money.

First the good bits: the neck feels smooth in the hand, the body is finished well, cavities are shielded, the Floyd Rose feels solid and the pickup is fine.

Unfortunately, on the model I received, the tuning machines are garbage, they feel really poor quality and the tuner for the second string won't turn. The main problem is the frets, or more specifically the fret ends... they are cut too short! There are noticeable gaps between the end of the fret and the end of the fretboard and I can only assume that the frets are cut to a certain length and then installed rather than the other way round. Whilst the fret ends are really smooth, the fretboard just looks amateurish. A fair number of frets are also uneven and need to be levelled.

I have always been open to trying Harley Benton guitars in the past and I have been lucky to receive a couple of solid instruments for not much money in the past. This example, however, shows that guitars at this price are also a bit of a gamble. This is a shame as these models offer a lot of potential. It also makes you question what kind of quality control is taking place as a guitar with short frets should never leave the factory let alone be sold in the store.

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