Review of the Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black Electric guitar. Where to buy it?

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  • Series: Custom Line
  • Body: Mahogany
  • Neck: Mahogany
  • Neck attachment: Set-in
  • Fretboard: Roasted jatoba
  • Fretboard inlays: White pearloid crowns
  • Binding: Ivory coloured
  • Neck profile: Modern C – Thickness at the 1st fret: 20 mm; Thickness at 12th fret: 22 mm
  • Fretboard radius: 350 mm
  • Scale: 648 mm
  • Nut width: 41 mm
  • Nut: Floyd Rose locking
  • Frets: 24 Medium jumbo
  • Pickups: 2 Roswell LAF AlNiCo-5 humbuckers (bridge and neck)
  • 2 Volume controls
  • 1 Tone control with push/pull function for coil split
  • 3-Way switch
  • Tremolo: Floyd Rose 1000 Locking
  • Hardware: Gold-plated
  • Machine heads: Grover
  • Colour: Vintage Black Satin
  • Matching case available under Article Nr 414317 (not included) (Note the case available under Article Nr 172299 is too short)

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This guitar usually has a price around 270.00 €

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Some comments from people who come to the forum about this model:

Comment:

It’s an very nice Floyd Rose Single-cut guitar for this price.

It’s the cheapest guitar with an Floyd Rose 1000 unit, fitted for an Single-cut. The Floyd Rose unit is nice, and it stays in tune.

The only drawback I have, is that this guitar is somewhat longer so it doesn’t fit the Thomann Single-cut guitar case, so you need to purchase an Gator Single Cut Guitar case, like this one…

And to get an really good experience with this guitar you also should purchase some Floyd Rose items for some easy string change and then it stays in tune almost every time you change the strings.

The items are….

Schaller Sure Claw ->

Allparts LT-0868-000 The Key ->

My pro tip is to get an tremolo arm that’s easy to replace, and this tremolo arm is an real gem.

Schaller FR-Style Tremolo Arm BC ->

And you also could get an Allparts EVH D-Tuna Drop D, but it’s not an easy fit on particularly this guitar, but it’s doable with some fiddling and an fixed sustain block and the correct string tension that the "Schaller Sure Claw" gives, and the "Allparts The Key" makes it easy to change strings and stay in tune without an setup of the Floyd Rose every time you change some strings.

Comment:

I might be a small bit biased about this guitar, because it’s my first guitar to feature a Floyd Rose Bridge, Locking Nut, and a Coil Tap on the tone knob.

The price is outstanding so there isn’t a reason to talk about it further

Right out of the box, this guitar is incredible to hold. The satin black finish with the cream colored binding and gold hardware is very slick, and it’s a little hard to stop staring at it all. Overall the finish seems to be perfect, I don’t see any horrid mistakes anywhere. Maybe there’s a tiny black speck of paint on the absolute border area of the binding, but who’s going to notice that?

The hardware on the guitar is something to behold. A Floyd Rose 1000 Bridge allows me to hone whatever whammy bar skills I’d like, and in my experience so far, without losing tune. The Roswell pickups in my opinion are amazing for coming with the instrument, but I don’t have much experience with anything other than stock pickups. The coil tap is very interesting and I personally love it. Messing around with the different sounds using the coil tap is very fun, and I was almost able to mock a tone from Queens of the Stone Age (and if you know that band, you know that getting Josh Homme’s tone is no easy feat)!

The one problem I had with this guitar out of the box concerns the strap locks. This is my reason for providing 4 out of 5 stars to features and quality over 5 stars. When I installed the locks on my guitar strap, everything seemed fine. I screwed them in place and, when I locked the strap onto the guitar, everything was great! However, it only took a total of 20 seconds for the strap lock towards the neck to immediately pop off its strap peg! I thought "maybe I didn’t put it in completely", so I tried at LEAST 15 more times, each trial resulting in the same error. I wouldn’t criticize this problem so much if it didn’t scare me so. Imagine someone gets this guitar as a gift, they throw their strap on it, and start jamming. Suddenly, the lock pops off its peg, and the guitar hits the floor HEADSTOCK FIRST. Very scary! I definitely think it’s something to look into with these specific strap locks.

Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black vs Harley Benton SC-550 II BCF

The guitar Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black is usually 15 € more expensive than Harley Benton SC-550 II BCF, but the difference is so small that this can vary..

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Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black

Harley Benton SC-550 II BCF
  • Series: Custom Line
  • Body: Mahogany
  • Neck: Mahogany
  • Neck attachment: Set-in
  • Fretboard: Roasted jatoba
  • Fretboard inlays: White pearloid crowns
  • Binding: Ivory coloured
  • Neck profile: Modern C – Thickness at the 1st fret: 20 mm; Thickness at 12th fret: 22 mm
  • Fretboard radius: 350 mm
  • Scale: 648 mm
  • Nut width: 41 mm
  • Nut: Floyd Rose locking
  • Frets: 24 Medium jumbo
  • Pickups: 2 Roswell LAF AlNiCo-5 humbuckers (bridge and neck)
  • 2 Volume controls
  • 1 Tone control with push/pull function for coil split
  • 3-Way switch
  • Tremolo: Floyd Rose 1000 Locking
  • Hardware: Gold-plated
  • Machine heads: Grover
  • Colour: Vintage Black Satin
  • Matching case available under Article Nr 414317 (not included) (Note the case available under Article Nr 172299 is too short)

Harley Benton SC-550 II Black Cherry Flame; deluxe series; electric guitar; mahogany body (swietenia meliaceae) (weight relief chambered); arched & flamed AAA-maple top; set mahogany neck (swietenia macrophylla king); pau ferro fingerboard; 60`s neck profile; 305mm (12,00″) fingerboard radius; 1th fret thickness 20mm; 12th fret thickness 22mm; pearloid trapezoid inlays; 22 stainless steel frets; 628mm (24,72″) scale; 42mm (1,65″) nut width; graphite nut; 2x Tesla Opus-1 Alnico-5 humbucker pickups; controls: 2x volume & 2x tone; 3-way switch; DLX chrome hardware; DLX tune-o-matic bridge; DLX Kluson style tuners; strings: D´Addario EXL-110 10-46; finish: gloss black cherry flame

Below have a look to the video of this guitar Harley Benton SC-550 II BCF

Harley Benton SC-550 II Demo

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Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black vs Harley Benton SC-1000 SBK Progressive Line

The guitar Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black is usually 101 € more expensive than Harley Benton SC-1000 SBK Progressive Line.

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Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black

Harley Benton SC-1000 SBK Progressive Line
  • Series: Custom Line
  • Body: Mahogany
  • Neck: Mahogany
  • Neck attachment: Set-in
  • Fretboard: Roasted jatoba
  • Fretboard inlays: White pearloid crowns
  • Binding: Ivory coloured
  • Neck profile: Modern C – Thickness at the 1st fret: 20 mm; Thickness at 12th fret: 22 mm
  • Fretboard radius: 350 mm
  • Scale: 648 mm
  • Nut width: 41 mm
  • Nut: Floyd Rose locking
  • Frets: 24 Medium jumbo
  • Pickups: 2 Roswell LAF AlNiCo-5 humbuckers (bridge and neck)
  • 2 Volume controls
  • 1 Tone control with push/pull function for coil split
  • 3-Way switch
  • Tremolo: Floyd Rose 1000 Locking
  • Hardware: Gold-plated
  • Machine heads: Grover
  • Colour: Vintage Black Satin
  • Matching case available under Article Nr 414317 (not included) (Note the case available under Article Nr 172299 is too short)
  • Progressive Line
  • Archtop body
  • Body: Mahogany
  • Neck: Mahogany
  • Neck attachment: Set-in
  • Fretboard: Amaranth
  • Fretboard inlays: Flags
  • Bindings: Cream-coloured
  • Neck profile: C
  • Scale: 628 mm
  • Nut width: 42 mm
  • 24 Frets
  • Pickups: 2 Active HBZ Hi-Gain humbuckers
  • 2 Volume controls
  • 1 Tone control
  • 3-Way toggle switch
  • Bridge: Tune-O-Matic
  • Double action truss rod
  • Machine heads: Deluxe diecast
  • Hardware: Deluxe gold
  • Strings: .010 – .046
  • Colour: Matte Black
  • Suitable case available under Article Nr 340252 (not included)

Below have a look to the video of this guitar Harley Benton SC-1000 SBK Progressive Line

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Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black vs Harley Benton SC-450 BK Classic Series

The guitar Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black is usually 152 € more expensive than Harley Benton SC-450 BK Classic Series.

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Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black

Harley Benton SC-450 BK Classic Series
  • Series: Custom Line
  • Body: Mahogany
  • Neck: Mahogany
  • Neck attachment: Set-in
  • Fretboard: Roasted jatoba
  • Fretboard inlays: White pearloid crowns
  • Binding: Ivory coloured
  • Neck profile: Modern C – Thickness at the 1st fret: 20 mm; Thickness at 12th fret: 22 mm
  • Fretboard radius: 350 mm
  • Scale: 648 mm
  • Nut width: 41 mm
  • Nut: Floyd Rose locking
  • Frets: 24 Medium jumbo
  • Pickups: 2 Roswell LAF AlNiCo-5 humbuckers (bridge and neck)
  • 2 Volume controls
  • 1 Tone control with push/pull function for coil split
  • 3-Way switch
  • Tremolo: Floyd Rose 1000 Locking
  • Hardware: Gold-plated
  • Machine heads: Grover
  • Colour: Vintage Black Satin
  • Matching case available under Article Nr 414317 (not included) (Note the case available under Article Nr 172299 is too short)
  • Classic series
  • Body: Basswood
  • Arched top
  • Set-in neck: Maple
  • Fretboard: Roseacer
  • Trapezoid inlays
  • Fretboard radius: 350 mm
  • Neck profile: C
  • Cream bindings on body and neck
  • 22 Medium jumbo frets
  • Scale: 628 mm
  • Nut width: 43 mm
  • Double action truss rod
  • Pickups: 2 Classic Covered humbuckers
  • 3-Way pickup selector
  • 2 Volume knobs and 2 tone knobs
  • Hardware: Chrome
  • Tune-O-Matic bridge
  • Closed die-cast machine heads
  • Ex-factory stringing: Harley Benton .010 – .046
  • Colour: Black high gloss

Below have a look to the video of this guitar Harley Benton SC-450 BK Classic Series

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Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black vs Harley Benton SC-Custom II Active Vintage BK

The guitar Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black is usually 62 € more expensive than Harley Benton SC-Custom II Active Vintage BK.

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Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black

Harley Benton SC-Custom II Active Vintage BK
  • Series: Custom Line
  • Body: Mahogany
  • Neck: Mahogany
  • Neck attachment: Set-in
  • Fretboard: Roasted jatoba
  • Fretboard inlays: White pearloid crowns
  • Binding: Ivory coloured
  • Neck profile: Modern C – Thickness at the 1st fret: 20 mm; Thickness at 12th fret: 22 mm
  • Fretboard radius: 350 mm
  • Scale: 648 mm
  • Nut width: 41 mm
  • Nut: Floyd Rose locking
  • Frets: 24 Medium jumbo
  • Pickups: 2 Roswell LAF AlNiCo-5 humbuckers (bridge and neck)
  • 2 Volume controls
  • 1 Tone control with push/pull function for coil split
  • 3-Way switch
  • Tremolo: Floyd Rose 1000 Locking
  • Hardware: Gold-plated
  • Machine heads: Grover
  • Colour: Vintage Black Satin
  • Matching case available under Article Nr 414317 (not included) (Note the case available under Article Nr 172299 is too short)
  • Custom Line series
  • Mahogany body
  • Set-in mahogany neck
  • Roasted Jatoba fretboard
  • White pearloid crown fretboard inlays
  • Neck profile: Modern-C – thickness at the 1st fret: 20 mm, thickness at the 12th fret: 22 mm
  • Ivory coloured binding
  • 24 Medium jumbo frets
  • Fretboard radius: 350 mm
  • ABS nut
  • Nut width: 42 mm
  • Scale length: 628 mm
  • Pickups: Roswell LZ56B Ceramic (bridge) and Roswell LZ51N Alnico-5 (neck) humbuckers
  • 2 Volume controls
  • 1 Tone control
  • 3-Way switch
  • WSC Tune-O-Matic bridge
  • Gold-plated hardware
  • Grover machine heads
  • Strings: Daddario EXL110 .010 – .046
  • Colour: Vintage Black Satin

Below have a look to the video of this guitar Harley Benton SC-Custom II Active Vintage BK

Good or Garbage❓ Harley Benton SC Custom II Vintage Black Review & demo

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Where to buy the guitar Harley Benton SC-Custom II FR Vintage Black

Thomann

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  • Full warranty. If you have any problems, they take care of everything.
  • 100% reliable payment.
  • Leader in trouble-free shipping.
  • Usually Best price.
  • Best Reputation: They are the leading online store in Europe and have the best catalogue and information.

Amazon

  • Free Shipping and possibility of shipping in one day with Amazon Premium.
  • Full Guarantee but they are no experts in music equipment.
  • Sometimes better price.
  • He’s got worse stock than Thomann.

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