Harley Benton TravelMate-E

The guitar seemed a bit like a toy on being unpacked but after playing for just a few moments that is not the case. I’ve been lucky to play some Emerald carbon fibre guitars and although not in the same league obviously it still manages to capture some of the innovative qualities of using that material.
This is a robust construction and well designed with lots of attention to detail making it a great travel guitar, just a tweak or two to make it better for me….. slightly lower action and better strings, easily sorted.
I’ve had this for a few weeks now and it’s stayed in tune well just sitting on my sofa taking up hardly any space at all.
I bought this out of curiosity and intended to possibly sell it on after a few weeks…… that’s not happening. This is a great fun guitar and I play it every day for 20 mins, it makes me smile.
For the price you get a heck of a lot, if you have a spare £200 give it a go.

All right let me give you an honest opinion about this guitar:
I'm not a professional player but I know my way around when it comes to playing as hobbist.
Let me give you the ugly truths first:
The built-in features and effects can become really noisy or from time to time since the speaker and the pickup is inside there it might have overlapping frequencies (which I think is inevitable due to physics😂)
BUT!!!!
This instrument gives you all the things it promises
For real!
🧳 Being portable ✅
🎛️ Giving you effects to break the raw experience of playing without taking more equipments on the go ✅
💪 Durability ✅
🔋 A very long lasting battery (I have this for more than 9 months and charged it a couple of times) ✅
📢 And to be honest for a small body like that which has not been made out of wood, this thing is actually very loud! ✅

It keeps in tune due to the carbone fiber composite materials pretty well, and very very fun to grab and play in gatherings and other situations.
I took it to my friends home a couple months go, and he literally couldn't take his hands off that. Later his wife asked me for a link to buy it for him as a birthday gift.
So...

Also worth mentioning that the sound of this thing is very unique. It's like a combination of western accoustic with a little bit of the taste of a classical guitar.
I mean the high frequencies is not that sharp like an ordinary accostic guitar. And I love the tone of that. Not only it's not a bad at all, it's even kinda interesting, especially since I have played classical and regular accostic guitar for a long time, and I like them both in different ways.