Harley Benton Fusion-III HSH LH Roasted FNT

Hi all. This is my first purchase and review on this site.

Let's start.

Features:

Pros: HSH, pickup cutoff, two-bearing tremolo, local pegs, shielding, high-quality wiring of the tone block, steel frets (treated, do not catch the skin of the fingers) matte neck (playing speed, the hand slides better on the neck), beveled neck heel (facilitates access to the upper frets).

Cons: no individual pickup cutoff (for me personally). Perhaps for some this is not considered a disadvantage. But for the presence of the cutoff option, I see no reason to take a point.

Sound:

Pros: No noisy pickups, average standard guitar sound, neither bad nor good. Suitable for recording, playing, learning, concerts.

Cons: At the cutoff of the pickup, the signal level drops sharply, so you have to warm them up with a screamer or change the pickups to more powerful ones.

Quality:

Pros:

For this price (for left-handers) it will be difficult to find an instrument whose neck is made of burnt wavy maple (matte finish), which has at its disposal an HSH-type pickup layout with a cut-off option.
Just as I said above, there are also: a two-support tremolo, local pegs, shielding, high-quality wiring of the tone block, steel frets and a beveled neck heel.

Minuses:

In my case, the screening is of poor quality (there are places that need to be completed), the neck pickup is very skewed (it stands unevenly), the wavy maple pattern is not very pronounced (in particular, on the fretboard).

In general, the guitar is worth the money, although in my case it requires some upgrade or elimination of the above problems. And this is not a custom shop to find fault with quality, for a series, very good instruments.

Thank you for your attention!

Guitar came with some problems but I was able to fix it myself. First thing I noticed the neck humbucker was tilted significantly; later I found out the pickup wire was stuck below the spring that pushes the pickup. Then after about and hour of playing the bridge humbucker stopped working; opening the wiring cover revealed awful soldering work but somehow it started working again on its own. After a couple of hours it stopped working again. This time I re soldered all the joints and connections and that fixed it. With this kind of issues I should've returned the guitar but I knew how to fix it so didn't bother, not something most people would do neither should you do it on a brand new instrument. Everything else about the guitar was fine but quality control should be improved.

Demorei muito procurando uma guitarra para canhoto que fosse versátil , confiável e preço razoável. Depois de ver muitas reviews do produto decidi comprar. Estou super satisfeito com essa guitarra. ela tem o corpo que lembra uma strato mas um pouco mais fino e menor, achei super confortável. A madeira do corpo é de uma espécie nativa da indonésia e gostei bastante. A pintura natural (acabamento emgloss) e o bind no corpo são muito bonitos. A ponte é excelente, muito confortável para fazer abafamentos. Os captadores não são maravilhosos, pretendo trocá-los mais adiante, mas eles estão muito longe de serem ruins, pelo contrário, com eles é possível tocar um som muito consistente, o cap do braço me pareceu melhor.
A guitarra tem split coin é o som é muito versátil, da pra fazer muita experimentação com ela. na minha guitarra há um gap entre corpo e braço, embora seja algo muito pequeno, a finura de um papel A4. O braço é maravilhoso, feito de maple e escale em maple, são ambos rosted, da um som ótimo. O braço tem bordas arredondadas, acabamento em cetim e trastes stainless steel. Lock turners e Graphtech nut. Estou super satisfeito, preço imbatível, pretendo usá-la por muitos anos !