I am loving this guitar. The Harley Benton Multi-Scale-7 TPB. I've been playing guitar since the 1980's. Not professionally (that dream faded long ago). I just play for fun, and I have a lot of guitars, but I've never had a 7 string. I wanted one - and the Harley Benton pricing made this a no-brainer. I've never had a Harley Benton either, so I had watched a few reviews and it seems the concensus is "Harley Benton is sometimes great, but even when it's not - with a little bit of work you can make it great". That is the greatest compliment any guitar company can get. I've had $1500 guitars arrive that still need work out of the box. Dean, Jackson, B.C. Rich, you name them, simple fixes are expected. While I'm no luthier, I can do most everything, and simple modifications needed to fix things that might be off. --- But this guitar is perfect, it needed nothing. It arrived 3 days after shipping, so everything was still roughly the way the Thomann technician set it up. It's amazing. Right out of the box - everything is beyond my expectations. The single string bridge design is brilliant, whomever came up with that should get a Nobel Prize. Every string is completely independent from the others. Set the action, intonation, and tuning without it ever effecting the other strings. Brilliant!!! The guitar is stunningly beautiful, it looks like a million bucks, and plays like it too. Whoever did the set-up on this guitar, I thank you ... it was great. The action and intonation are spot on. All I had to do was tune it .. right out of the box, this thing is perfect. I did have a bit of trouble keeping 2 strings in tune .. but that was due to a couple of loose screws in the tuning heads. A screwdriver and 10 seconds later - this guitar is solid perfection. It stays in tune, plays great, sounds great. The neck is as smooth as any in my collection. The frets are as cool as Djent will allow, seriously though ... the frets are leved, rounded, and polished, as though they've been through a plek machine. A plek and tech set-up alone costs twice as much as this guitar ... and it already has all of that done. Really, I am in awe at the quality and set-up of this guitar. The pickups are the only week-link in this design. The covers make them look sweet, but they are not "hot" enough. But that's okay, simple adjustments in the effects processor make up for that. It just means I can't use my regular setups for this guitar. It gets its own seperate adjustments ... no worries. I really love this guitar, and I smile every time I play it.
