Jay Turser JT-200D

Im a beginner but this guitar has everything you could want on a guitar. Neck feels great, like butter.

Much better than my gibson baldwin. Finally feels good to have a guitar that plays great. I cant explain the difference. Sounds better than an epiphone.

Seems like a top notch guitar to me. Prolly better than an epiphone.

Everything is A+++

2007 made in china, 22 frets, mahogony body with a solid maple top....this guitar is chambered which makes it lighter....the maple top is a solid 1/2" thick, mine is a natural finish flame top. Real body front & back and neck binding, the ply is paint however.

This guitar sounds great, i play a variety of rock and metal and this beauty holds up to anything. I play through a Yorkville Stage 100g with a Korg ax3000g for effects. has a nice rich full humbucker tone, a bit brighter than an authentic LP but this baby sounds great!!!

Came from the factory set up well, but i always make my personal adjustments for my playing and sound preference. The bookmatch on the flame top is flawless, the entire finish on the guitar is flawless. I have had the pups out and inspected the workmanship, she is built solid!!!!!

This guitar would hold up for live playing, no question about it. everything is solid and well made, very dependable. Never gig without a backup.

I have been playing off and on for 15 years, quite a bit more in the last 4 years. I have a 1972 MIJ Univox Deluxe LP copy, 62 reissue Fender Stratocaster, 57 reissue Fender Strat w Texas Specials, Peavey genereation EXP Tele Copy. I would buy another of these if it were lost, for 200 bucks u get a les paul copy that is IMO is better than many of the epiphone models. I have compared this to my fathers Gibson les paul studio and my Univox Deluxe, the only real difference for me was the weight and neck radius. This guitar comes very close to a real lp, and for all intensive purposes it is, unless you are a brand snob....and if thats is the case i am sorry. I recommend this guitar to anyone who wants a les paul tyoe guitar.

A couple of weeks ago I was in my local guitar shop checking out the Blackheart amps and noticed this pretty little LP-type guitar hanging on the wall. I've owned a number of Les Pauls through the years, but have never really connected with them, mostly because of their weight. But this one was light! I played it for a few minutes unplugged... nice tone and resonance, and very nice action. I plugged it in and just couldn't put it down. So I ended up walking out with it.

I think the features are covered pretty well by other reviewers. What sets this apart from other LP-type guitars is that it is chambered, which accounts for it's lightness. Mahogany set neck, mahogany body (chambered) and 1/2" maple cap. Mine has a beautiful light natural flamed maple top (1/16" vaneer over the cap), and deep reddish mahogany finish on the body and neck, gold hardware. It is a geogeous guitar.

Very versitile and smooth sounding pickups. Sparkley cleans and overdrives very nicely... a bit bright sounding for humbuckers, which I like. Normally I would consider upgrading pickups on a guitar in this price range, but these are staying in. I replaced the volume/tone pots and caps with full-sized Alpha pots, but it still tends to get a bit muddy when you roll off the tone.

I build, repair and mod guitars as a hobby, and I am very particular about setups. This guitar came nearly perfectly set up. String action was perfect, neck relief perfect, no fret buzzes, intonation almost right on. Everything fits, the frets are nicely finished, and the finish on this thing is just flat beautiful.

Everything is solid. It's built like a Les Paul. Hardware is decent. As I mentioned, I replaced the pots/caps... this is one area they cut corners. Tuners work well and it stays in tune.

I don't know... I do my own tech work, so don't plan on finding out about customer support.

For the $260 I paid for this, it is flat out fabulous. I own 25 (or so) guitars and this is the one that gets played the most. This was a complete impulse buy, but one of the best guitar buys I've made recently.

Mine has a tiger eye finish. It looks really nice. However it is suseptible too fingerprints, I wipe it down everynight to keep it "healthy".

I am a metal person. It suits my type. It has a somewhat classical/blues sound. I have a micro-cube and it seems to work well. I have heard that the best for it is a tube amp.

I believe that this guitar would withstand live playing just fine. The hardware is pretty good. I think that the finish is very good. I have banged it on some things and it is still fine.

Me and my friends switch up everything when we play together. If this guitar were stolen I would definately replace it.

2007 Les Paul style, Tiger eye quilted maple, tune-o-matic style, mahogany body/neck, rosewood 22 fret with square inlays, gold pups and hardware, horrible grover style tuners. Ads and most reviewers all say solid body..... it's not. That's why it's so light. Pull a pickup and look, it's all routed out on the inside. I'd call it semi hollow.

Love playing metal but play any rock, classic to death metal. Play through Behringer 2x12 combo, Digitech RP-12 through Crate GX900H and Carvin 4x12 cab, or recording (normally through POD 2.0. Did some tweaking to set guitar up and sound right but after that..... the pickups are pretty hot for stockers and have decent tone. Good depth from warm (good classic sound) to scream-ish (metal). I can do plenty of tweaking with effects processors but even without the preamps twisted to 11, pretty hot distortion.

Now, the stockers are good but I'm pretty stuck to EMG's for metal so I put in EMG 81/85 ZW set (love the BLS and Slayer sound, although different, same PUP set). They sound amazing in my 80's custom shop warlock and my platinum pro warlock (both heavy Agathis bodies) and in my Epiphone LP studio (SOLID mahogany) but in this semi-hollow "solid body", they sounded like super hot, absolutely no tone, pieces of crap. This guitar is much better with the stockers. Maybe better with SD or DiMarzios but not EMG's.

Factory setup was about what I expected. Not horrible but needed some tweaking. Changed strings immediately to some GHS boomers (I like em). Action was pretty low but I like it way down. Needed a tweak on the trussrod but was able to adjust real low with no buzz. Fretwork is real good. Very nice neck. Raised and matched pups. All in all not too bad from a setup standpoint. Top was bookmatched nice. Finish looks great all the way from body to headstock.

2 bad things - #1 Binding on neck is good but binding on body and headstock is not binding. Someone said below that it looked like paint and I think they're right. Looks good from a distance but not so good looking close. #2 The tuners and the nut SUCK!!!!! Doesn't stay in tune well and a pain in the ass to tune. Sometimes the tuners stick and let loose as you're adjusting and I swear that it seems that sometimes the strings stick in the plastic, cut with a pocket knife, nut and let loose. If you got the extra cash, replace these immediately when you get the guitar!!

If you change the tuners and nut, I think this can be a good guitar for whatever you want to do with it. Gig, record, backup, whatever. Remains to be seen if it'll take a hit to the finish on stage (don't forget the "binding") because I don't play out and I'm pretty anal about my guitars and treat them well. But the guitar itself seems solid and well put together.

Seems pretty non-existent. Got off ebay, didn't come with the warranty card like I asked for, said they'd send one, never did. Also asked about the "solid body" and they told me that "some of them are solid and some of them are semi-hollow. I never know which one is coming" Ummmm, then why does EVERYONE advertise as solid body? And why after 8 months since I (and a friend who bought one) brought it up, has NO ONE changed their ad? My warranty is void now anyway. Give it a 2 because it came with warranty at all.

Been playing for about 20 years. See other gear above ^^ + a MIM strat. I give it an 8 because after the tweaking and a few parts changes, for the price, it really is a decent guitar. It does look beautiful with the quilt and the gold hardware. I think it'll hold up well. I chose it for the looks, set neck, and mahogany "solid" body/neck. I guess 2 out of 3 aint bad. If it were stolen, I'd probably look for a used Epi or a smokin deal on a Gibson but if I'm short on cash, I'd buy another one. If you're a beginner and don't want to learn all the bad habits of learning on a crappy guitar, this one would be great as a first guitar because of what you get for the price. Then upgrade a bit and you can do whatever you want with it.

Been playing for 44 years. For $245.00, I got what I paid for. Fit and finish is very good. Upon UPS receipt of the guitar, I simply changed the factory strings and brought up the pickups. Tight, quiet, reasonable fret work.

I own a 1977 Les Paul Standard. This guitar does not have the mass of the LP, hence the sustain is not as good, but the thing is quiet and the pickups are quite aggressive. Stays is tun too!

Nearly flawless. Excellent for a $1000.00 guitar

So far so good.

Will never need or use customer support

I've been playing since 1963 ans owned some nice instruments and lots of shit boxes. This guitar rates HIGH. #3 after my LP and Hamer Artist!

gold top, dotted rosewood neck, gold hardware.

wonder about the pickups, guitar sounds better than a les paul studio very nice overdriven with pedals, jazzy on the clean end, bridge pickup.

through on a set of tens, seems close enough as far as intonatation. Doesn't weigh a great deal. This makes it a real joy to play. Can't stop playing this axe.

seems solid. There's really nothing chincy about it.

25+ years, amature. I've got les pauls, strats, teles basses, but this thing, my god, it's like a punk rock guitar. Any style of music is playable on this thing. There's nothing like it. This guitar really thumbs its nose at gibson. If I'd smashed this on stage, I'd try to find another one, initially at the price I got it for I thought about mr townsends technique, but after playing it, I realized I'd rather smash my les paul studio. The crazy thing is, I felt directed, as if by god to cruise into a pawnshop yesturday afternoon where I see this gold top staring at me and the price was marked at 29.95, I've upgraded it by putting on new strings and tightening on of the pots. I've played it mostly with out an amp, and plugged into a little fender practice amp for 6 or seven hours. I still have to see what it does with a marshall, but with a variety of noisy distortion pedals and amplification units I messed with last night, I was astonished at the clarity and lack of any humm generated by the pick ups .

Flamed laminated top,cutaway,Tune-O-Matic,stop tailpiece,Mahogany body and neck. Rosewood board. Typical Les Paul details.

I play only Chicago-style blues.
I playn through a Fender Blues DeVille amp with an outboard preamp but no other pedals.
The sound is excellent and people in the audiaence always ask how I get that tone! I love it.

The guitar is flat-out an astonishing value. Get this: I'm 60 yrs. old and have many expensive guitars. This is a keeper. The cosmetics are superb and the workmanship georgeous. If you really understand guitar construction, you can recognize the shortcuts but hey, it's $250.00. It came with polished frets and was set up quite well. I plays like a dream. The rating is nit absolute; it takes price into cinsideration. At the latest price at Sam Ash ($200.00) it desrves a 10!

I've had it for seven month and play it on gigs. Never meiised a beat (no pun intended).

No problems--no comment

Been playing 40 years. I'd buy another.
I prefer it to most of the knock-offs inclunding nearly all the Epiphone Pauls.

Les Paul Clone, 2volume and tone controls, SET NECK, nice red burst finish, gold hardware, veneer top and Solid body , don't know the wood types.

Don't know the maker of the PUs but these things sound good, VG sustain, and crunch, think Classic Rock and Punk. Not great as PAF 59's but good enough. I played this thing beside my real LP with 59's, ofcourse the 59's sound better but these things hold their own. Because of the price I give it a 10. If I was being absolute giving no breaks a 8.5.

What ever the body's wood is there is only 1 board, my Epi LP has 3. This has a SET NECK, most LPs in this price range are bolton. NO FRET BUZZ even with my heavy hand. Inotation is spot on. There are several finish issues, red paint on the binding which came off with some haze remover, finish not smooth on neck to body joint, black paint near the back access ports, again rubbed out. Turser says the guitar is set up from ther factory, mine was setup correctly, even the string height, neck was flat with no releif. Frets seem well polished and dressed Tuners are Green Klungson type.
Typical massed produced guitar, the Chinese are getting better at making guitars.

we will see, looks to be solid

came with a 3 year setup warranty and some other verbage

For $300 you get a decent guitar that is on par with what Epi puts out and sounds better. Guitars like JT , Austin, Agile to name a few are making Epi to lower their prices, notice the price of low end Epi's nowadays? I saw a Black Epi LP Standard for $370 at GC the other day. I was interested in buying a Agile but don't like buying sight unseen. Sam Ash sells a comperable guitar for maybe a bit more but you can try it out first!

7.5 .... sound is pretty good..... I have a les paul with a really expensive pickups so I may be biased. but sound is great for beginners to intermediate.

pretty good for $321.

I am confident with the durability

well the site I bought it from doesn't answer any of my emails.... it is called musiclandcentral.... I bought the guitar on ebay......

I have been playing for over 10 years.... I record prfessionally and my music is played on the radio across northern mi. the real reason I wanted to comment on this guitar was because the kluson tuners SUCK. they won't stay in tune ,,, but I bought a set of KLUSON style grover tuners and they are great...... they were $40 from a site on ebay... and the guitar stays in great tune... .but if you have any ear at all the stock tuners will have to go..... .