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Includes 3-month Subscription for free from music2me

Includes 3-month Subscription for free from music2me

From July 15, 2026, through October 14, 2026, you’ll receive a free 3-months subscription for an online course from music2me worth 57 EUR, with the purchase of one of the participating electric guitars, acoustic guitars, or ukuleles. After your order has been shipped, you will automatically receive the activation code by email. The music2me subscription ends automatically after expiration.

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Electric Guitar

  • Body: American alder
  • Bolt-on neck: Roasted Canadian maple
  • Fingerboard: Laurel
  • Dot fingerboard inlays and side markers
  • Neck profile: Modern "C" - thickness at 1st fret: 20.5 mm / thickness at 22nd fret: 22.5 mm
  • Dual-action truss rod with adjustment wheel
  • Compound fingerboard radius: 305 - 406 mm (12" - 16")
  • Scale: 648 mm (25.5")
  • Nut width: 42 mm
  • Graphite nut
  • 22 premium jumbo nickel silver frets (2.9 mm)
  • Pickups: 2 open black Isola Hydrazine Alnico5 humbuckers (bridge and neck)
  • 1 volume control
  • 1 tone control with push/pull function for coil split
  • 3-way switch
  • Single-ply black pickguard
  • Hardtail bridge with strings through body
  • HB locking machine heads
  • Black hardware
  • Strings: Harley Benton HQS EL .010 - .046 (Art. 513807)
  • Colour: Desert Sand
  • Available since May 2026
  • Item number 613685
  • Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
  • Colour Desert Sand
  • Body Alder
  • Top None
  • Neck Caramelised Canadian Maple
  • Fretboard Laurel
  • Frets 22
  • Scale 648 mm
  • Pickups HH, HH
  • Tremolo None
  • incl. Bag No
  • Including Case No
1.899 kr
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Best knockaround/beginner guitar ever.
Pazo 17.06.2026
This is the perfect first guitar(it is my 11th, haha). This is how it should be done. Hardtail bridge, locking tuners, 2 splittable humbuckers, great neck, done.
If you are looking for your first guitar, nothing comes close at this price and much higher.
Comes with 10s which is too heavy for beginners in standard tuning.
Only thing that can be upgraded are the string trees, 3 bucks, and not even necessary.
Came playable out of the box, no setup needed.
Slightly disappointed because my ST Modern HSS came with a slightly flamy neck, very beautiful, this one is plain and the laurel fretboard on this looks lower quality than the one on the HSS, but it is still better than guitars costing twice as much.
Feel of the neck is great.
Pickups are surprisingly good and split sounds are very useful and 'stratty'.
Highly tecommend getting both this and the HSS. Amazing value guitars.
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The best possible guitar for this price! Period
DJ Chemo 12.08.2026
So I ordered this guitar as a platform for mods, and I couldn't have chosen a better guitar. Harley Benton puts the attention to detail where it counts.
1. The neck is a dream. The relief was spoton, fretwork was amazing, all the frets sit perfectly and every fret is also perfectly leveled. I only did some minor cleanup on the fret ends while doing an intensive polishing job.
2. The body is also flawless. The neck pocket is perfectly fit to the neck and all the routing is clean.
3. The hardware is all very acceptable as far as quality of materials and workmanship but here are where the mods start making sense. The tuners are surprisingly good for such budget tuners. The ratio allows for pretty accurate tuning and the fact that they are locking add to the tuning stability. Unfortunately the tuning pegs are made of plastic which makes everything in me say that these must be switched out for some Kluson Revolution Locking vintage tuners. They have the vintage look but also the 10mm posthole which is standard on this model. The string trees were switched immediately for some Graph Tech string trees, they may seem expensive but they are the best 15bucks you'll ever spend to get better tuning stability. The graphite nut was cut beautifully and strings don't snag or hang in the slots at all. The bridge is well built and the saddles are surprisingly well machined and smooth on the corners. This brings me to the only problem with this guitar, the grub screws for the saddle height adjustment are too long and once the action is setup these screws stick out almost 2mm out the top of the saddles. This is an easy fix with M3 #40 8mm grub screws. Unfortunately Thomann doesn't carry these so I had to order them on Amazon from MusicLily. (Hint hint Thomann!). I will eventually switch the saddles out for Graph Tech String saver classic saddles for the better tuning stability and less string breakage. The electronics obviously don't consist of high end boutique wiring, pots and pickups BUT, all the wiring is done well, all hardware is installed professionally and sits wonderfully. The pots are a little sensitive, there is a sudden drop in volume when the volume is turned down slightly, same with the tone control. This can also be smoothed out by a capacitor but that's not a necessity. Opinions on pickups are just that, opinions. With that said, I love the sound of these pickups, the humbucking mode is a little dark but that brightens up beautifully with a pull of the tone pot and an instant switch to single coil land. Honestly, 3 humbucking tones and 3 single coils tones all varying in brightness is much more than most people need. The pickups are also much hotter than most of the pickups on my other guitars so I lowered them particularly low because of volume but they still sound amazing.

When the guitar arrived it was not playable. The action was almost 4mm high, the intonation was not even setup at all, no string radius (all saddles flat) and the guitar was never even tuned, the d and g string were flopping in the wind. But now, after a good setup, rolling of the fretboard, new grub screws, a fret polishing and a heavy duty conditioning of the fretboard (one of the dryest I've ever seen), this is now my best playing guitar that absolutely is so much more than "worth the money".
I would suggest that if you have no experience setting up your own guitars, this is a great chance to learn how to do it. There are great tutorials online. But if you aren't interested in investing many hours of learning and just want a guitar that is immediately playable, you will have to get this professionally setup which will add on to the overall cost of this guitar, but even then, IT'S A STEAL OF A DEAL! I have invested 200euro all together and a few hours of my time and this baby plays like a 4000euro instrument.
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MVP in s- style guitars!!
THR 355 Greece 10.06.2026
Forget Charvel,Forget Fender.This is the best s-style,hard tail guitar.I play guitar for 35 years and you can't tell the difference between this Harley Benton and a 1000-1200 Euros guitar.Congratulations to thomann for the quality and the fast and safe shipping
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Une qualité incroyable, sauf les vis des pontets
Batcat 17.06.2026
Mes guitares Harley Benton TE-62 CC LPB et R-446 BM offrent un excellent rapport qualité/prix car, après un peu de travail, elles sont bien meilleures que des guitares 3 fois plus chères qui nécessitent souvent les mêmes ajustements, voire plus.

Harley Benton s'améliore encore avec cette guitare ST-Modern HH DS : le rapport qualité/prix est inédit.

Les caractéristiques corps en aulne, manche en érable torréfié, radius composé de la touche, molette de réglage du Truss Rod, sillet en graphite, mécaniques bloquantes, humbuckers Alnico 5 splittables, découpe pour l'accès aux aigus, étaient jusqu'à maintenant inenvisageables pour 158 €.

Mon exemplaire pèse 3,095 kg sans plongée de la tête.
La construction, la jonction corps/manche et la finition sont parfaites. Les cordes sont parfaitement alignées dans l'axe. C'est très soigné, de l'assemblage à la visserie. La jouabilité et le son de la guitare sont un plaisir.

L'arrière du manche et la tête sont superbement satinés - le toucher est très agréable. Je préfère ce profil "Modern C" au "Modern D" de la TE-62 CC que je trouvais déjà confortable.
La touche composée 12''/16'' est une nouveauté pour moi et me convient. Par contre elle était très sèche et un peu rugueuse : après ponçage/polissage soigneux très fin, puis huilage, elle devient satisfaisante, plus homogène, lisse et foncée pour du laurier.
Le frettage est le meilleur de mes 3 Harley Benton : aucune frise avec une action de 1,75 mm. Les frettes sont justes, parfaitement posées, bien polies, les extrémités lisses. Après un léger nivellement et réglages j'obtiens facilement l'action un peu plus basse qui me convient. Je préfère ces frettes à celles de mes 2 autres Harley Benton qui semblent un peu moins hautes et qualitatives.

Le sillet en graphite et la taille des encoches sont parfaits.

Les mécaniques bloquantes fonctionnent étonnamment bien pour cette gamme de prix. Les boutons sont en plastique. Elles ne sont pas étagées, donc l'angle des cordes après les arbres à cordes n'est pas idéal.

L'action qui me convient fait beaucoup trop ressortir les vis des pontets, ce qui pourrait m'écorcher la main quand je joue. Je demanderai à Thomann s'ils pourraient me fournir les côtes/références exactes de ces vis pour en trouver de plus courtes.
Après intonation, le diapason est exactement de 648 mm.
Par contre, je ne pense pas que l'on pourrait reculer suffisamment les pontets pour un accordage en Drop Si, par exemple.
Les férules qui retiennent les cordes tombent lorsque vous changez les cordes.

L'électronique est silencieuse, à peine moins en position splittée. Le léger jeu du potentiomêtre push/pull est anecdotique par rapport à ce que l'on trouve parfois sur des guitares beaucoup plus chères. Le switch est ferme.

Les micros testés sur des amplis lampes et transistors sont très bons pour ce prix. Ils ne sonnent pas bon marché et sont assez précis avec une distinction des cordes raisonnable en position humbuckers ou micros splittés, en son clair ou distortion. Ils remplissent leurs rôles respectifs sans effort, seuls ou ensemble.

Les cordes Harley Benton "revêtues" sonnaient bizarrement, des D'Addario 10-46 ont réglé le problème.

La clé allen et l'accessoire pour le Truss Rod sont fournis.

En personne, la couleur entre Desert Sand et jaune ivoire s'associe bien avec le noir et la tête, mais c'est subjectif.

Si vous cherchez une guitare avec 2 humbuckers splittables, chevalet fixe, et que vous vous souciez peu d'avoir un nom prestigieux sur la tête, c'est incroyable pour ce prix.

Hormis les vis des pontets, il n'est pas nécessaire de remplacer quoi que ce soit, mais si vous souhaitez améliorer les micros, sachez que le routage n'accueille pas de micro central.
Des pièces de haute qualité ne seront pas déplacées sur des bois et une lutherie de ce niveau.

Tout ce que j'espère c'est une TE-Modern HH avec exactement les mêmes caractéristiques et les découpes ventrale et avant-bras souvent absentes. Si possible avec une touche en amarante en échange d'un radius 12'' simple et de mécaniques basiques 10 mm.

Merci Harley Benton et Thomann
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