Harley Benton Fusion-T HH Roasted FNT

Good bits: first, value for money - incredible spec for less than €400.
Delivery - speedy to say the least.
Setup out of the box - mixed (see later, but all correctable by an hour or two's setup) but nothing like as bad as the PRS at twice the price I sent back two weeks before).
Quality - good finish, great neck, frets spot on and nut nicely cut, weight and balance fine, hardware good quality and spec.
Less good bits: far too much neck relief (easily corrected). Mainly, a badly fitted bridge pickup (these fix with two screws directly into the body cavity, sprung upwards by a pad containing two springs). The pickup was way out of level and couldn't be adjusted; the output wire was caught between the pickup base and the pad, tilting it, and the fixing screws were out of line, jamming in the holes in the fixing bracket. Perhaps someone had tried to free the movement by force, because the hardened steel screw had chewed the holes and produced what looked like metal filings - not good near a pickup!.
Trem setup not perfect, but corrected without neck tilt adjustment being required.
That's all there is on the debit side - you might ask why I didn't send this one back as well; I've been playing guitar since pro in the 60's, and have some expensive gear, and simply wanted a workhorse guitar to take the strain (fret wear mainly) from the others. Having seen this guitar, there is no way I could get anything of this standard in this spec at this price, and with a second setup and a good fret polish, it plays as well as any other guitar I have - plays physically, not for fine-tuned audio stuff - I had intended to change the pups and some electrics, but that's on hold for the moment - it's "good enough for rock'n'roll" - light years ahead of the PRS and its creaking trem, nut cut by a gorilla with a triangular file, neck relief out from side to side, first fret levels all over the place, and completely out of tune - watch their video of pre-delivery quality checks - it must have been signed off by Hans Christian Andersen.
Well done Thomann - nobody's sneering at Harley Benton these days . . . .

Je me suis offerte cette Harley Benton pour travailler la compo à domicile. Je ne regrette pas mon choix.
Sur scène je joue sur une Julia Duisenberg, j'avais conscience que ce ne serait pas la même qualité et finition (ce serait trop beau Ahaha), mais même si l'action était un peu haute ici (vite résolu), le confort du manche est vraiment agréable.
Elle est polyvalente comme tout.

Le seul bémol pour moi est dans la finition. Le placage d'érable flammé est loin d'être dégueu, mais on est loin du modèle présenté en photo (j'ai peut-être juste pas eu de bol) et la délimitation de couleur au niveau du pan coupé donne une impression un peu plus cheap que si il avait été continu, à mon humble avis.