The cost versus quality ratio in the world of electric guitars is really something to behold these days. If you’d told me twenty years ago I could get my hands on a great playing and sounding guitar for less than £150, I’d have taken your arm off.
It was with more than a little scepticism then that I unboxed the Harley Benton TE-52 NA Vintage Series, priced at a ridiculously low £144 minus shipping from Thomann. Many cheap guitars promise to deliver all the vintage ‘T’ tones you can twang a string at, but at the sub £150 mark? It'll have to be some performance.
