Harley Benton DC-Custom II White

Very impressed with this beautiful guitar. Very impressed with build and set-up. Was in tune out of the box, action/intonation was perfect, all hardware solid, & fit/finish solid. I couldn’t find anything that (previous to ordering) I expected would reflect its price or country of manufacture. I’ve owned a few SG’s over the years (‘65 & mid-70’s Gibson, currently an old Epiphone) & this holds its own against any of them. Definitely as good, if not better, than the Epi at half the price. I’d grade the p’ups on a curve, obvsly can spend a lot more money for whichever brand affords the sound you prefer, but I’m happy with these & see no reason to change them. While neck dive varies slightly in the SG’s I’ve owned, it’s inherent in the model & this is well within expected parameters of any SG I’ve ever played. I was afraid the weight may be an issue & almost pulled trigger on basswood model, but happy that fear was unfounded. It doesn’t impact my compromised shoulder & is well within comfort range. Highly impressed with Thomann’s customer service, set-up, & how quickly I received it. The only downside is being hit w unexpectedly high tariff charges, but that reflects my country’s current fascist & inept regime not Thomann.

Lieferung:….. Thomann’sche Zuverlässigkeit und Schnelligkeit!

Ausstattung: …- der Wahnsinn! Edelstahlbünde, Coil-Split, leichtgängige Grover-Mechaniken (aber Stimmstabil!), Binding um Hals u. Kopfplatte, Perloid-Inlays, 4-lagiges Schlagbrett

Verarbeitung: ….-Makellos, habe nach Durchsicht KEINEN (!) Fehler gefunden
Lackierung, Mechaniken, Potis, Schalter, Bünde, Sattel, Brücke…….ALLES PERFEKT

Gewicht/Balance: ….nicht zu leicht, nicht zu schwer, perfekt ausbalanciert (!)…

Setup: ….Sofort angenehm anspielbar aus dem Karton! Intonation perfekt! DAS hatte ich noch nie!
Habe die Saitenlage noch weiter reduziert, und neue Saiten aufgezogen. Musste an der Halsspannung nichts (!) ändern.

Klang: ….sehr resonant schon ohne Verstärker, langes Sustain!
Druckvolle Bässe, Knackige Mitten, Singende Höhen, - da geht die Sonne auf.
Clean, Crunch, Verzerrt, volles Brett- diese Gitarre kann ALLES!
Umschalten, von Humbucker auf Single-Coil: etwas Lautstärke weniger……Single-Coils haben weniger Output…passt. (kann man durch härteren Anschlag augleichen.)

Klangregelung:…. Linear(!)- zurückdrehen des Volumepoti, weniger Verzerrung
Tone-Poti…..weiter Einstellbereich der Tonregelung

Was soll ich sagen, ich bin überglücklich mit dem Teil!!! Werde viele Jahre damit Freude haben!!!
Vielen Dank für dieses Instrument!

I will be short. This is a very good guitar, if you are a SG fan, you should buy it. Guitar is built very good and looks very nice, much better then on pictures.
On the other hand, guitar came with very high string action, which is normal at this price range and it is easy to fix. Another thing which bothered me was some slightly high frets at the neck joint (fret 16-17). I can fix it and I was not surprised, I know that guitars at this price range can have this issue.
Altogether I can confidently say that for this price this is the best SG I have ever owned.