Jay Turser Explorer copy

the whole guitar is al round sweet, the knobs on it were rather cheap so i put new knobs on it but i havnt touched a thing elts. the neck is really nice it is really heavy and solid it even looks sweet

ITS GOT BALLS, its sutch a nice sounding guitar, u plug in a gibson and listen to it. then you plug in this guitar. and you go wow,, thats not right, isnt the gibson suposted to wrk better

i am a vivid guiatr played been plaing since iv biin 15 and i know how to set up a guitar just the way i like it. so i dont remember what it was like at the etore . what i do remeber is fighting with my mom becuase she though i wanted it becuase it looked like one of james hetfields guitars.

only problem is that once you peal off the chrome on the humbucters. you get alot of feed back if your plaing in a 30 -50 foot room through a 120 beringer stack. lol but other then that ,. i wouldnt change a thing

uuggg.. not a thing

BUY IT

It was my first guitar. It had a transparent reddish orangish finish, it looked ok. eventually I got the guts to paint it. When I was buying it I was looking for a explorer style, with 2 volume, 2 tones, a tremolo (preferably a Floyd rose), and possibly 24 frets. If you want those same things... look elsewhere. This guitar has 22 frets, tune o matic and stop tailpiece, 2 volumes and 1 tone. But I loved the way it looked that???s why I bought it. Eventually I took the router to it and gave it a tremolo, this caused more problems, because I???m the bomb diver kind of person. It started staying in tune and this amazed me, but then I took it apart to paint it, put it back together and it was no where near as good.

I like the sound I get out of it now, it was a nice smooth rich sort of sound before I routed it. But now that I routed it for the tremolo it???s got this sweet crunch that I just love. I???m not sure what pickups it has they are just humbuckers of some sort, but I love them, they really fit me, they are defiantly helping me find my sound. I have no idea what the wood is, I???m assuming it???s a cheap wood. It was a light medium colored wood, so if you can guess from that... I'm not to sure on the sustain before the tremolo, but I think it was fairly good. Good enough for me at least. Now with the tremolo pinch harmonics tend to fade a little early, it???s long enough but its no open chord. I really like the sound, and what I???ve done with it.

I wasn???t so much in to the action at the start ...but I don???t think I ever had to lower it. I really like my action low, cause I'm a tapper ... a lazy tapper hehe. As much as I remember it was fine, and the tune o matic made it easy. The nut with the tremolo doesn???t work to great, every time I bend the strings detune... but i can swing down the tremolo and it retunes which is kind of neat, but it requires special tuning then a bomb dive then repeating so like 4 times till it perfect, but that???s my fault. The pickups were perfect not to high not to low, just right.

I think it does fine for live shows, I mean I???m sure there is better guitars for live shows, but it does well for me. I have used it with out back ups and I still will. My first show was at school, I had a back up strat, that I was just going to use for one song because it had a tremolo (that I stole and put on the explorer). It was perfect that show it stayed in tune, no flaws, sounded great said some fans. Just the other night I had my first performance with my guitar finished with the tremolo and repainted, and it was just as good as or even better than my first performance with it. I was going to my friends Cancer benefit thing, I walk in and he says lets get you a guitar I want you to play, I hadn???t rehearsed thing but I knew a couple of songs fully, and I thought do I dare bring the turser, it might fly out of tune... They got me up there with it, and it was a blast, and some of the guys there had seen me play behind my head before, so they were cheering me on, so I swung it behind the head. It played perfectly. It is dependable behind and in front of your head. I was very pleased with it. Factory strap locks are never that good, so I ended up screwing in some I screws or whatever so I could like go franken strat style strap hook ups.

I had Martha???s Music (the place I bought it) fix the intonation because they gave me a free coupon with the purchase. They were no good with service. I no longer support them. I was going to try a guitar there with a tremolo, they didn???t let me use that, which is understandable, but I pulled out a pick they said no picks... that???s like asking a piano player to play with out his fingers, or a drummer without his sticks, a violinist with out a bow. I know you can play with out fingers, but what about pinch harmonics. So I now longer support them, When I first purchased my turser they were very rude, and talked very defensively to not me but my Mom. She wasn???t buying it she was just there to browse. And Martha???s defiantly surprised me when the one sales person, had no idea what a guitar nut was... I don???t know what he calls it, but still you'd think they would know some basic pieces of a guitar.

I have been playing 2-3 years now. I???ve been playing this guitar for probably about 2 years. This is still the only guitar I own, but I???m going to get another sometime. I would probably buy this same guitar if I lost it, just not from Martha???s. I compare it to my brother???s v, which lacks harmonic sustain, and his esp eclipse, which has a thinner neck but I still like my explorer more. I wish I had a 5150 II stack, and a Wolfgang or MM axis (I???m huge Van Halen fan) but I???m looking into buying another vox amp, a bigger one, and a Kramer imperial with a Floyd rose.