Harley Benton BS-20BK Rock Series

I didn’t expect this to be great but dude I pulled it out the box and it was nice and shiny, almost in tune and had a good weight. Plugged it into my Orange and my pedal board and played King Diamond Welcome Home. Sounds good, the pickups actually surpassed all expectations, I feel bad I’m cutting them! The neck is awesome, it’s one of those make you want to learn necks (this is one of those “no neck is the same because wood is never the same” things.
I bought 2 because my singer wants to learn and we are old BCR fans and users. The two guitars are vastly different in good ways, my singer’s guitar is heavier and doesn’t quite sound the same. This is perfect for a beginner if they want METAL! Can’t find anything bad and Thomann customer service is awesome!

I bought this guitar knowing the first thing I will do is upgrading it.
Straight out of the box the guitar was not sounding great and playing on it was not that comfortable. But! After:
- changing the strings
- adjusting trussrod
- adjusting string height on bridge
- adjusting intonation on bridge
It sounded very well and the string action was okay!

I will change the keys, pots, nut and bridge so I can only say of the base of this guitar - neck and body is pretty great.

CONS:
- Guitar was not packed very safely and one of the 'horns' of the body was messed up in delivery - it's only about 1 cm of the lacquer though in the back so not a big deal,
- One of the tunning keys is little bit rusty in few places, but I will replace it nonetheless.