Harley Benton SC-450Plus GT Vintage Series

well first off, Its more like a coppertop then gold, the machine heads are snot green. Ipicked it up to examine it just to check and I cant find a blemish anywhere, this thing is perfect. No mis matched binding no runs in the paint,no sharp frets this thing is perfect. Quality wise This guitar is as good visually as some of my other guitars that cost nearly ten times the price. Its heavy, just like the model its based upon..Plugging it in It sounds and does everything its meant to do,I play blues /rock usually no bass hardly any treble lots of reverb and high volume. Rapidly becoming one of my favourite guitars.Love it.

Out of the box the guitar looks gorgeous no flaws in the finish it weighs 3.7kg sounds great the volume and tone knobs work the way they should very smooth and the toggle switch works well feels good too. Now comes the disappointment the guitar out of the box came with high action the frets needed polishing. Polished the frets lowered the action BUT the neck was bowed watched YouTube how to straighten the neck did that all good so far then I lowered the action I get the action to where I like it and start to check for fret buzz I start at the high E string and work my way down the neck note for note all good up until I get to the low E string start to work my way down all is good until I get the 9th fret bang fret buzz but the funny thing is that it’s only the 9th fret on the low E everything else is good so I have to rise the action on the low e side to the stage where I it’s not comfortable for me to play it’s playable don’t get me wrong but I would rather the action lower. I’ll take it to luthier friend to see it if the guitar can be fixed with no extra cost I’ll keep it for sure if not it’s going back

I was concerned about this guitar when I first saw the advert on Facebook. "Way too cheap", I thought. But, since I took possession and played it, I am so surprised and impressed at the quality of the sound, feel, look etc, that it has become my favourite guitar.
My only concern is the lack of quality with the Tuning Machine Heads and the fact I am constantly having to re-tune...
I have now had to buy new Tuning Machine Heads and replace the originals. My thoughts would be, install better at the manufacturing stage and then raise the price accordingly. On the whole though, a wonderful budget guitar for those with only limited funds.

Looks amazing! Really good looking guitar.
Sounds nice, but I changed Roswell pickups for an EMG set and now it sounds awesome!!
In general I like it very much BUT frets need to be polished of course. Unfortunately I can’t do it by myself, so will use the guitar with some additional buzzing on low action.
And also vintage kluson style tuners were not good at all, so I changed them for a set of expensive locking tuners.
I like the wood work. Besides, It has true maple top. And I like how they did all the cavities and cutouts in the body, they are neat and clear. It was also painted very neatly.
But don’t like electronics in it. Very cheap small potentiometers. And I don’t now why, maybe someone just made a mistake, but linear and logarithmic potentiometers were installed in reverse, they used A-pots for a tone. And on one pot, under knob, someone forgot to instal a washer before screw…
So, again, in general it’s a very nice good looking guitar for 170 Euro. Comfortable and good sounding. But the fret work is not great, unfortunately.