Harley Benton TE 20HH SBK. Affordable and good? 

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Let's be real, HB makes awesome and beautiful guitars/basses that people like to shit on just because they are "CHEAP". If I had to choose between a 5k gibson and 5k worth of HB I'd rather start planning where to put them all.

This guy is so good. He can sound awesome even with the cheapest guitar

Came for the Harley Benton review, subscribed for your smooth playing style.

Please note @ 8:30 I mentioned the pickups as Roswell. They are not branded as Roswell , they might not be Roswell pickups.

Thanks Jonathan for keeping up to date with what's out their,in the world of guitars,I really appreciate it,so nice hearing you play,and putting um through the test,nice knowing what to expect. Thanks

Just received mine last week & was pleasantly surprised on just about every level! Great demo, your sense of melody & phrasing are top notch! ✊

Hey Jonathan, in your hands every guitar sounds great. And it's cool that a pro like you play these cheap guitars, and find them good. Thank you Jonathan, every beginner could start with great stuff these times. I like the sound of this Guitar, sounds like a Roch beast. Pus sounded good to my ears too. Have a good time and stay healthy🎸💯🙋‍♂️

I have this guitar. This review is proof that a really good amp was used. It was unplayable out of the box: Neck was concaved, string action was almost at 3mm and intonation was whacked, due to the concave neck. Yes, fingers were black, yes, stays in tune. Pickup selector is hard, but maybe that will loosen up with use. The knobs are surprisingly smooth. The pups are really muddy IMO especially during distortion. I think the clean sounds are not bad. I played this through a Fender Deluxe Reverb. BUT, it's easy to set up and is a great guitar for learning how to set up a guitar, although I did had to shorten the low E spring to intonate. It's also looks rad on the wall, which is the reason I originally bought it, but I do enjoy playing it. My current collection by the way is a newer a American Strat, and a few Ibanez RG's ranging from cheaper to more expensive. I'm in SoCal, purchased on a Tuesday, arrived on a Thursday, can't beat that for $40 shipping. I plan on learning how to install pups on this. The look of it is as described. Would I buy it again? Absolutely.

Your playing always blows me away, Jonathan. My Harley Benton strat arrived yesterday, I love it. Thanks for the thorough and honest reviews, and the good tunes!

A fabulous review of a very nice, exceptionally affordable, guitar by one of the very best players on RU-vid. Jonathan always gives a good, honest appraisal of every guitar he reviews and, as many have said, it is wonderful when such an accomplished player takes the time to critique ( and actually enjoy ) less expensive instruments. Thank you Jonathan for the variety of guitars you " road test ". If only every reviewer was as " open " to find the strengths and sometimes, though not always, weaknesses of budget friendly guitars ... especially when they are as accomplished musicians as yourself. My thanks to you once again Jonathan. Love & light brother x

Your playing is on a whole other level. Wow, just WOW!

Very cool black affordable HH Tele style guitar. Beautiful playing again Jon, thanks for posting.

You're the man!! On any guitar. Love your reviews. The playing makes me think they're all great deals. I bought the TE90 black paisley after your review. Keep it up bro.

This is one of the prettiest pieces of lead guitar I have ever heard well done Jon . Keep those fingers walking Kevbo and keep on keeping on

I love your whole room setup you have. Very relaxing and nice. I need to step up my room game lol

Great as always, Jon! You can't beat the quality for the price

Great review, lovely playing! I love mine though I have put Tusq nut and trees and Wilkinson Classic pickups in it. Plays like a dream, very resonant neck and body and it is STUNNING!

I like a lot your re-designed room. Playing awesome as always.

Hi Jon, Amazing video. Just ordered myself one of those as a project guitar. Your video has made me super excited to get my hands on one. You’ve earned yourself a new subscriber :)

Hi Jonathan... Got this guitar a couple of days before your video.. love it for the price no brainer! Watching your channel for a year or so for me your one the best You Tube guitarists! Anyway this guitar the only thing I find different from your review is the pickups very punchy not so weak! Looking forward to seeing your next video stay safe keep playing great guitar!☺

Just bought this one.Great review and playing as always cheers Jonathen👍

My face just melted after that solo Johnathan 😎

Came solely for a review of this guitar and ended up subbing for the playing 😂 so good man.

How does he not have more subscribers i mean proper reviews doesn’t just do solos mentions every spec on the guitar and just you cant find a better guitar reviewer out there than Jonathan and by the Way great smile

Nice one Mr. Koh, love your style of playing and reviewing.

Another great review. Really enjoy your playing.

Great sound and as always great playing!!! I have two Harley Benton's !! Love both

Man you are amazing at playing and that's a hell of a guitar! Imma buy it for sure! Also you have a new subscriber! From Italy with love!

Nice playing Jonathan.! I just ordered mine!

Your playing is absolutely stellar!

played well again. I think it's nice when you play. sounds great. thank you.

From Leo: Thank you for this review. I really enjoyed your playing. You are an artist.

Best guitar reviewer online....period.

Jeez man, that's fantastic! Well played, very well played.

Hi, great playing and review. I have had mine for almost a week now. I have got black fingers from this guitar as well. The fret ends are a little sharp as your example. I think the pickups are quite good for my needs. The nut could do with replacing and is a little high. But a lot of fun for a little money.

Great review. I will watch all the others, too..🙌

just ordered this to go along with my te52 and cst24 which i play more than my more expensive guitars the price for quality ratio is great with HB and they have great customer service as well. cant wait to get it.

When I see you with all these HB, I think I'll buy one for my Christmas (loved the sound of the last part, that's my style). And this one is really affordable, incredible ! Being in France, I don't have to pay for the guitar being send to me, which tells me I should do it. Don't know what model I'll take, must investigate a bit (and your videos gonna help me choose a good one :-) ). It's a great thing to hear what a pro thinks of these guitars . Thank you.

Sounds pretty good Jonathan! Keep rocking!👍👍🎸😎

Great job as always Jonathan !! :)

Hi, I have a Fender Tele but I’m gonna purchase this, loving it, thanks for your review

You're an incredible player Jonathan!

I just got mine in the mail. It is much nicer than expected.

Love the look of this guitar. Thanks mate

Great guitar playing! Awesome. Just goes to show...the name on headstock doesn't matter anymore. And a great guitar player can play anything to perfection.

Very stylish guitar playing Jon. Great job

Met Jon in person I was a stagehand for him in California. Super humble guy , but he's also a total rockstar . Man had me with the chills many times during his set . 🤌🏽✨✨✨⚡️

You make every guitar sounds good! 👌👌

You are awesome Sir! I'm gonna get this guitar and will do a review myself on my channel. Keep it up! Subbed!

It's gorgeous and sounds great too .I've just ordered one ,

sick tones man! and great guitar playing! I love my Harley Benton a lot (it is a 7string fanned fret though), I'm currently eyeing the 'les paul' with the P90 pickups and goldtop :)

I bought the ST 20 HSS strat style Black. And cutted my HB DC to a travel guitar with one bridge pickup 2 knobs . I think you like black guitars. Good job again . awesome playing again.

great playing jonathan !!

Love the sound and look of the guitar.

Wow. On fire 🔥! Sounding great.

Put anything from Roswell pickups in and youre good to go anywhere. Use their Humbuckers LAF for Blues or HAF for Rock and Heavy or LGA90 for a singlecoil sound. Bear in mind matte finish will, after sometime, get polished in places wherer you touch the guitar a lot.

Amazing tone stained that's really Sweet!

2:20 onwards so nice, then past 3:05 ! some xtra serious shit my man, great playing, myself not so much in the mood right now, but that makes me want to grab the guit. And what i like most: it's all in the player and his fingers, not so much the gear. And this cheap tele thing does look attractive, sounds in your hands like a 3k guitar. I really like your soloplaying with the occasional funk rythm chord/solo mix, you don't hear that so often these days, really fine mixture of solo but rockin' muted rythm strumming, more please, inspirational really rocks!

love your content man!

Beautifully played as always, Jonathan. Maybe the humbuckers are purposefully weakened so as to be consistent with the usual more clean voiced single coils in the normal tele's( PS I love tele's, no really, my partner of 35 years is surnamed Tele) this was as you noticed a fairly crisp sounding guitar, and maybe they didn't want a big crunchy permed and tightly Lycra' distortion metal type of sound.Since I don't have access to playing one, maybe you're correct in calling it overly bright, but still distorting. Either way it seems like a lot of guitar for very little money, so thanks for a proper thorough test for the rest of us out here!

Awesome playing man

I bought a copy of the Gibson hollow body 2 years ago and I can say nothing wrong about it. Well pleased

Acabo de recibir la mía. la compré gracias a tu video. Aunque no consigo el sonido increible que tienes jeje. Saludos

Very nice Jon.

That looks and sounds great!

Due to the pandemic the prices in the guitar market skyrocketed! Was saving for an used LTD Deluxe but ended up getting a new HB SC-Custom II FR VB for half the price, couldn't be happier!

Looks cool - great playing.

It looks soo awesome. I bought a HB PB-20 SBK and it looks so insanely good with that Matte Black finish so now I have to buy several HB guitars with the same finish 🤣 Even though I have the models I want already I NEED them in that gorgeous finsih. Love your video as always.

Hey Jonathan, i know that wasn’t your favorite, but you were still all over that guitar, thanks

I think that Jonathan only opens his eyes while playing just to make sure he is still on Planet Earth. If only I had a tenth of a percent of his purely amazing talent/gift.

I just bought this guitar, and i have never owned or really played guitar, This seems like a good guitar though so im happy with my choice. Knew id be a HB though ;) Cant wait to learn it!

Great stuff, partner ordered one for my birthday, going to do a few upgrades with the string trees and insulate the cavity etv. have you thought about adding brass saddles? they change the tone really nicely :)

I ordered one along with a more expensive HB TE 62 and my 62 has been collecting dust lol. i have a blast with this guitar.

Brilliant playing and an excellent and honest review of a guitar that represents outstanding value for money. Which amp are you going through Jonathan? Many Thanks

You play magnificently! I like ur technic of using 3 fingers mostly in ur solos here! Can u make a video of how to play this solo sometime : )

I've had mine for 8 days and love it. I put a black pick guard on and it looks killer. Sounds great, but there are some things I dislike. Otherwise a very cool guitar. All my friends love it.

Dude!!!! This one is fantastic cool!!!

i love this guys playing its got a late seventies Larry carlton,lee rittenour kind of vibe to it, elliot randal those kindaguys very few people pay like that nowadays

Nice playing, Jon

This T style rocks. And I did score one :D Selected specifically for the dual humbucker and the blacked-out look. And as always, make me smile seeing you play. Pleasure to watch the genuine concentration and hear the great output. PS: Please have someone record your Black Bart Cowboy gig 🤠

There will be dye on the Harley Benton fret boards... and the frets will need polishing. That is almost 100% upon arrival at the door. That being said, the quality and wood selection still bring me back to Thomann for another round of Harley benton's.

Man your vibrato technique is so insane! 1

great tones ...guitar looks super

I came for the review,but closed my eyes instead to listen to the great playing!! Wholly Molly...you rock on guitar brotha.heck ya!!...also..what is that beautiful acoustic sitting behind you to the right????????

Hi John. I will probably be getting my hands on this one as well next week. You have me sold on these guitars. Awesome guitars for the money. And in my price range. I was in the hospital. And had back surgery. Plus went through two weeks of rehabilitation. So wife says I can buy another guitar. I am looking at this one to buy. You make them all sound so good Jonathan. I just want to buy everything you demo. Alas I am only a rhythm guitarist. I will let you know my thoughts when I get it. My heaviest one is the TE-52. Second is the SBK 400. Take Care Buddy.

Nice guitar, Will buy and make it an Te-20HH Pro, with an few tweak adjustments.

Brilliant shit, Jo

A lot of guitar for the money! There was a time when I didn't have the best and this would have been the best for me. I'd have taken a file, ever so lightly to dress the end of the frets, cleaned it up, put the best strings on it and I'd adjusted my cheap amp. And made that guitar sing.

I just ordered mine on Thomann for €99 I’m really curious about this guitar. Have read a lot of positive comments about it, but also negative. Especially about people getting black fingers.. like.. what? Lol anyway really looking forward to have this guitar in my hands. Great review and you play amazing! Rock on🤘🏼

I need a Humbucking Tele with the full plate bridge like this! They have their own mojo going and this on looks like the old Fender Noir series, huge bonus plus the price! Im going to buy one right now, ill do what i need to do to get it playing proper.

Love your setup X, is it standard on the Line 6 Helix Native (please tell me more)!? Keep up the good work.

Those pickups sounds really good. They don't need to be changed.

Very well spoken sir.

As always nice playing....hb is 👌

Gorgeous. I'm really looking at either getting a HB Tele model or perhaps one of their Jazzmaster models. How does the neck profile on the HB Teles compare to the necks on Fenders?

Well mate, it sounds fabulous, but you are a great player and have nice gear, it sounds very good to me! Great price.

I love the review jonothon, but man, I have to say, these damn ads that disrupt the middle of videos nowadays really suck and are annoying as hell..HELLO YOU TUBE, This was never the case before' and quite frankly, It sucks! Now..the guitar is great. I own 3 HBs and if I ever get another one, this is definitely on the top of the list. I love the blacked out look.

As a guitarist of 50+ years, I've had allsorts of guitars and have learnt one thing,. Simply,.. The joy of playing,.. When I pick up a guitar and play, I'm lost in the music whether it's a second hand £30 or one costing hundreds. I've never felt the need to buy a thousands of £ of guitar,.. If you can afford one and you want one great!! An expensive guitar will not make you a better guitarist, but I guess if you're good you'll make any guitar sound good,

It's a beauty!