Harley Benton SC-Custom III Baritone AB

Guitariste très amateur, je ne savais pas du tout à quoi m’attendre avec cette Harley Benton SC‑Custom III Baritone AB. C’était ma première guitare de la marque… et j'ai été franchement émerveillé. La finition, le confort, le son (même si en matière de son, on ne peut pas plaire à tout le monde).
J’ai été tellement convaincu par la marque Harley Benton que j’en ai déjà commandé une deuxième : une Guitar MAX Fusion Signature. Pour moi, c’est une excellente guitare et une très belle surprise. Je recommande sans hésiter.

I am a beginner / intermediate player, this is my 5th guitar from Thomann, I just received it today, it was the first time I played a baritone. I had previously bought the SC Custom III (purple burst) which is an excellent instrument with great features! Well, the baritone version is simply amazing! Beautiful finish, beautiful color, comfortable to play, the pick ups are great to my taste. Locking tuners would have been great and I personally think that the headstock could look nicer with something else instead of the “Custom III” label. A version with active pick ups would be amazing!

To start off, the transport packaging was very premium, all padded inside the box and double-bagged and that left a really good unboxing impression.
The guitar is definitely a looker! The Army Burst matt finish looks very good IRL. I was coming in expecting imperfections here and there for this price point, but this exceeded all of my expectations! The only issue from my first impression was the neck volume pot's knob basically falling off, but that is an easy fix to make it stick again ;)
The biggest positive surprise was definitely how thin the neck is for a baritone of this scale and that there is no heel for the set neck! The comfort and playability is truly immaculate. Stainless steel frets and a graphite nut at this price point also show that these (along with the premium-feling neck) are not features that should be paywalled by a four-digit price point. Eat your heart out, *insert any popular guitar brand*!
These Tesla pickups also sound quite crisp for heavier music with distortion, but as they are a bit more on the medium overall output side, with coil-split the signal get's very noticeably weaker.
Overall my quality rating is a 4,5* due to the knob falling off, 4,5* due to the low output coil-split and a full 5* for features as as a whole this guitar is a great package with an awesome neck that's tough to beat even at 2x the price.

Absolutely brilliant guitar for the price. The features list speaks for itself (locking tuners would have made it perfect, but that's not a huge issue), but what really blew me away was the fit and finish. This isn't just a bunch of boxes being ticked off and hastily assembled into something resembling an instrument. The finish is flawless, the fretwork is top notch, the nut is cleanly cut, I mean seriously, I live in Australia so it had quite the journey, and when I took it out of the box it was in tune.

If you're looking for not only an entry point into baritone guitars, but an overall great instrument, I strongly recommend the SC Custom 3.

It chugs hard.