Harley Benton TE-90FLT SB Deluxe Series

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Electric Guitar

Body: chambered ash
Bolt-on neck: Canadian maple
Fingerboard: Maple
22 Frets
Scale: 648 mm
Nut width: 42 mm
Pickup: 2 Roswell FLT-NI AlNiCo humbuckers
Reversed headstock
DLX chrome hardware
DLX die-cast machine heads
Factory strings: .009 - .042
Colour: Three Tone Sunburst

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Colour Sunburst

Pickups HH

Fretboard Maple

Tremolo None

Body Ash

Top None

Neck Maple

Frets 22

Scale 648 mm

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Chambered solid body

Harley Benton TE-90FLT SB Deluxe Series Electric Guitar

The Harley Benton TE-90FLT SB Deluxe Series combines the looks of a typical TE-style guitar with a 3-tone sunburst finish that brings out the pleasing grain of the ash body. Unlike conventional solid-body guitars of similar design, which tend to weigh quite a bit, this model features a chambered body and is thus comparatively light. The guitar also features a bolt-on neck made from Canadian maple (a wood widely considered to be even harder than oak) with a 22-fret fingerboard, which gives the guitar a crisp tone and plenty of sustain. The TE-90FLT SB also comes loaded with a pair of Roswell FLT-NI AlNiCo 2 humbucking pickups, which deliver a full and powerful sound when amplified.

Contemporary features

Players should not be fooled by the classic design of the Harley Benton TE-90FLT SB Deluxe Series, which conceals a number of more modern features in addition to its chambered body. These include a smaller pickguard that gives the guitar a slightly unconventional look and, unusually for a TE-style guitar, a belly cut on the rear side of the body for enhanced playing comfort. And to complete the TE-90FLT VW's stylish looks, its Canadian maple neck features an eyecatching reversed-style headstock.

Body backview of the Harley Benton TE-90FLT SB Deluxe Series Electric Guitar

From startup to backup

The Harley Benton TE-90FLT SB Deluxe Series will capably handle everything from Classic Rock to modern Pop music and will be at home wherever players who are on a budget need a little extra in terms of sound and looks. Guitarists have to go without a tremolo here of course, but they still get a solid and reliable instrument that combines classic features with modern enhancements. This guitar is ideal as a first instrument for beginners, who can easily carry it around with a suitable gig bag, and experienced players who already own more expensive guitars and are looking for a solid and affordable backup guitar with a modern touch will also find this an interesting proposition.

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About Harley Benton

Since 1998, the Harley Benton brand has been catering for the needs of numerous guitarists and bassists. In addition to an extensive range of stringed instruments, Thomann's house brand also offers a wide choice of amplifiers, speakers, effect pedals, and other accessories. In total, the range includes over 1,500 products. Built by established names in the industry, all Harley Benton products combine quality and reliability at attractive and affordable prices. The continuous expansion of the range ensures that Harley Benton always provides new, exciting, and innovative products that keep players perfectly in tune with the musical world, day after day.

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From Rock to Country

The Harley Benton TE-90FLT SB Deluxe Series is ideal for fans of the classic 648mm (25.5") scale length, and its 22-fret fingerboard provides plenty of space for extensive soloing, helped along by the .010-gauge strings with which the guitar comes as standard - perfect for string bends in Rock, Blues, and Country music. Incidentally, the "Deluxe Series" suffix denotes that this guitar features chrome-plated hardware, which should satisfy even demanding players in terms of looks, while the two Roswell FLT-NI AlNiCo 2 humbuckers provide a smooth, warm tone that has plenty of retro character.

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Good, but a little surprised

Shadetreepaul 01.09.2020

This was my 4th Harley Benton purchase (I previously purchased an HB mandolin, as well as the Harley Benton TE-52 NA Vintage Series tele and the Harley Benton JB-75MN NA Vintage Series bass) and I have to say my luck finally ran out (somewhat) on this purchase.

With all the previous HB instruments I was blown away by the perfect quality and sound. None of the instruments needed much work out of the box - but I can't say the same for this guitar. Yes, as other reviews have mentioned, the tone of the pickups is stellar and exactly what I had hoped for. But, the build quality on this one was not the same as the others.

Also, the nut is strange because it is a much taller nut, but the grooves are cut so deeply (poorly) that the middle two strings buzz a bit. There was some residue on the frets (maybe rust) as well as on the back of the tuners. I simply wiped off the tuners, but the frets needed to be sanded, so that was quite a process of removing strings, taping neck, sanding, and hoping the frets are level.

The screws for adjusting the pickups were stripped, so barely useable, even though the pickup height needed to be adjusted. I eventually gave up and just left them where they are even though it's not where I want them.

The volume knob makes a strange scratching sound when adjusted, and it's not the cap, which I removed to check. Doesn't matter a lot to me because I basically just keep it at full volume anyway.

There is a strange almost tremolo sound (volume dipping randomly) when sustaining a chord and I'm not sure if that is a wiring issue or a bad volume pot... at this point I will live with it but it's disappointing when compared to other HB guitars.

Not a huge fan of the reverse headstock, but it's "cool" I guess. At least the neck looks and feels great and the tuners work really well.

The body chambers have shielding paint and foil so the guitar is absolutely silent which is a huge plus for me.

Even though there was an inspection sticker, I feel like this one slipped through any quality control. Maybe I just got unlucky this time and got the bottom of the barrel. Still a great guitar for the price, but not as impressive as other (cheaper) HB's I own.

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Amazing

Christian Savchev 24.03.2019

This guitar is awesome!
It's an absolute pleasure to play.
With a little bit of tweaking it turns out great, much better than anything else you can find for the price, and sometimes even double the price. That by itself should tell you a lot!

Here are the pros:
* The frets were levelled, dressed and crowned very well. They needed polishing, but that's to be expected and is easy work that you can do for 15 minutes in home when you change your strings.
* The neck joint is really tight, the neck itself is well centered
* The guitar resonates as every guitar should.
* The tuners are better than I expected, they are somewhat smooth (for the price). You certainly won't find a guitar with better tuning keys for the same amount of money.
* The FLT (we all know what that stands for lol) pickups are probably the best feature of the guitar, it just sounds amazing! As someone who hates single coils but needed clarity I couldn't be more satisfied. The guitar is suitable for everything from super clean stuff to stoner/sludge. Don't expect to play death metal on it though.
* The guitar looks gorgeous altogether.

There are a few cons, that are easiliy fixable though:
* The tone and volume pots are very.. "sudden". The changes in volume and tone are somewhat abrupt. But you can easily change the pots or if you are like me - not really use them except for muting the guitar.
* The tuning keys, albeit smoother than expected, still can be changed for better performance.
* The string trees MUST be changed for higher quality ones or at least roller ones. I replaced mine with Goldo Roller string trees and the difference is big.
* Two of the pickup screws were screwed aslant. They work, but it looks a bit ugly when you happen to notice it.

Still, I'd buy that guitar 10/10 times.
Unless you are completely ignorant or an absolute cork sniffer, you know every guitar has it's flaws, and some work will be done in order to make the best out of it. With this guitar - certainly not a lot.

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Great guitar

rbmk 26.10.2018

This is a really fantastic guitar at its price point. I'm really blown away by how much I enjoy playing it.

Mine is as pictured (including the belly cut - something other have reported not having). The only differences are that it also has the sunburst finish on the back and the bridge saddles are a slightly different design.

The good: The body finish is flawless and beautiful. The neck and fret board have a nice satin finish that feels really good. It sounds great! Even the first time I strummed it without amplification I said "wow" to how it sounded. The pickups have lower output for humbuckers (which is what I wanted) and sound fantastic. They're on the darker end of the tonal spectrum, but still sound clear and warm with good midrange. A few of the frets have a barely detectable sharpness to their edges, but not nearly like you would expect for a sub 200-priced guitar - and they were easy to dull with a bit of sandpaper. Setup - the guitar came out of the box with a pretty good setup. Only had to make a very (very) minor truss rod adjustment to provide a bit more neck relief and had to adjust the intonation a bit.

There were a couple of minor quality issues, but nothing major: The pickup selection toggle was loose. One of the pickup height adjustment screws is in slightly crooked, so it sticks up a little further than it should above the pickup. One of the tuning machine heads was so badly misaligned that tuning that string was difficult because of its resulting proximity to the the adjacent tuner (this was easy to fix by loosening the screw on the back and rotating the machine head. There was enough play between the shaft of the screw and the side of the screw hole that I didn't need to fill and re-drill the hole).

Overall, I'm extremely happy with this purchase. Don't expect a $2000 custom shop kind of instrument at this pricepoint. But it is DEFINITELY a better guitar than a couple of Mexican Fender Teles I played a couple of days before this arrived.

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Good; but not without issues.

Paul7701 05.12.2020

This guitar is my 3rd HB. I have the fusion T, and the TE-52NA, both of which are excellent, no matter the price. This one caught my eye too, (I love teles!), but there were a few issues with this one. Not Thomann's fault, but it arrived in N. Ireland via UPS in disgraceful condition. The outer carton was busted open, and badly taped together (by UPS), the inner carton was damaged also, the toggle switch had made a hole through the cardboard, and was wrecked. This had to be replaced. The nut was really badly cut, which I also had to replace. The frets were horrendously dirty, almost corroded looking, which required serious polishing to get playable. The output jack was not great either, the cable never felt like it 'got home' properly, there was about 1mm of 'play in it', and it didn't feel good at all, this also had to be replaced.
All in all, a lot of work for a new guitar, which my other HBs didn't *need*.
On the positive side, the filtertron pickups are a joy, if a little difficult to set pickup height, as the screws are really cheap and the heads strip *really* easily.
This hasn't put me off HB guitars though, but this one didn't leave me quite as happy as the other two I own. I sorted it myself, as its a bit of a hassle posting it back from where I live to Germany.
It's a good guitar *now*, it's just a good thing I know how to do some repairs /upgrades, otherwise this one would have gone back immediately.

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Harley Benton TE-90FLT SB Deluxe Series

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