Harley Benton SC-1000LH SBK Progressive Line

I wanted a guitar to play and not to care too much about it. But now I think is more than that.
First thing noticed after unboxing, was the reinforcement profile on the neck, under the nut. Not all the Gibson have it, (Epiphones usually do) and they are notorious for neck breaking. Apparently, this one is safe. The guitar was set up in the shop, but action was pretty high. I tried to lower it and now is as low as any good guitar, so no frets problems. I wonder why they left it like this. The active pickups sound impressive, very hot, and lot of highs and no hum. The tone control is effective, but is working on first third of the turn, then nothing happen. I think there is a logarithmic pot installed, instead of linear.
Easy to replace.
The weak part are the tuners. Guitar stays in tune, but the the tuning process is a trial and error process. But I will upgrade them anyway.
Bodywork looks good, no visible defects. Neck feels a bit chunkier than Fender style guitars which is quite comfortable for me.
Overall, I think I got more than I paid for.

I'm an intermediate player, chose the SC-1000 for my first guitar with active pickups, cause the high gain noise from my previous guitar was kind of a killer. Been using it for nearly 2 years!
Upon a pretty careful inspection I could find no flaws, except maybe a barely noticable scratch near the rear cavity. Visually it's stunning, with it's matte black finish and gold hardware.
My playing experience with the guitar all this time has been good, though not the best. Very good action and comfortable to play on, but the tuning stability could be better. I would also highly recommend swapping out the pickups on it for EMG's, since I found them to be quite noisier than expected. However, a noise gate would do the job just as well, and the tone was pretty good, looking past that.
All in all a very good addition to the limited range of choices for left-handed guitar players, and HB knows how to make a low priced model that doesn't scream "compromise".