Harley Benton CST-24T Black Flame

Pros
From far away it's a beautiful guitar

Cons
The totally blind quality control.
The distance from the 6th string to the neck is ~ 6mm, which makes playing the guitar uncomfortable. At the same time, the strings are noisy at all frets from the 6th to 24th.

When playing, the springs create additional sounds.

There are a lot of problems with the quality of the finish on the guitar: smudges of varnish, curve painting, paint on frets.

The noise from the humbuckers is similar to my telecast with single pickups.

I took the guitar to a master for finishing, and unfortunately, a miracle did not happen. He made an additional shielding from noise, pierced frets to get rid of ringing noise, but ... more or less the same issues.

In general, the main purpose of a guitar is to play music. This guitar out of the box does not allow you to enjoy this opportunity.

If this is your first guitar - everything is OK, but if you had more or less good guitars in the past - do not make my mistakes because of the positive reviews on YouTube.

UPD: Depending on the weather, the guitar changes its geometry. When wet, the strings lower and do not produce sound. I lift them, then it gets drier and they are too high =)

This is probably my worst guitar ever.

So I bought this guitar because I couldn't afford a PRS SE and I heard great reviews. So I took the plunge and bought it thinking that with the new factory and the offer of stainless steel frets that it would be a great deal.

On delivery it was in one piece and was remotely functional. But the more I went through it, the more issues I saw.

- Fretboard broken at the truss rod underneath the nut.
- What looks like a piece of bare wood underneath the clear coat.
- Frets not level. ( which will cost more to level since they are stainless steel ).
- The nut is too small so the strings aren't spaced right and they're not even sitting in the nut properly so it never stays in tune.
- Poor wiring to where I had to replace wires on the selector switch because the wires were way too thin and not soldered right.
- Tremolo screws are leaning forward so I'm assuming that they weren't drilled right.
- Pickup ring wholes aren't aligned properly
- Jack whole is butchered with multiple screw holes from the factory messing up.
- Tremolo has a good scratch and a small dent.

I should have just held out for the PRS because for how much I am gonna have to pay to fix issues I could have bought the SE instead.