The Harley Benton TE-20HH SBK Standard Series guitar is amazing. It costs £82 and can be bought here - https://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_te_20hh_sbk_standard_series.htm
Firstly it looks great. It's all matt black, including the neck and it has a really nice tortoiseshell scratchplate. Secondly and most important, it plays great and sounds great. I used it on this track.
As you can hear those humbuckers have a real bite to them. Admittedly I'm playing it through a rather splendid Blackstar overdrive pedal, but even so it sounds great. OK, so it's not 100% perfect - the frets could do with a bit of dressing and I will probably replace the tuners with some locking ones. But this is £82 ($108 - €98) after all. I would also point out that it's also very light.
This shows that these days it's not that expensive to create an excellent playable guitar for a fraction of the prices that companies like Fender and Gibson charge. And I've had expensive guitars in the past that are worse than this. If you don't know who Harley Benton are see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Benton
As many of you know in addition to doing stock photography and video, I also compose and play stock music - see https://www.pond5.com/artist/instantclassix?tab=music and part of what I need to do is produce music in as many styles as possible. It also helps to have different sounding guitars. Companies like Harley Benton help me do that without costing me a fortune.
So if you are looking for a starter guitar, or a backup guitar I have no hesitation in recommending the Harley Benton TE-20HH SBK Standard Series guitar. For the money it's simply unbeatable.
