Jay Turser JT-30

Recent China made three pick-up plywood body guitar that is light with no tone at all! This guitar is more like a "basher" that you might use for a second axe or for that Ace Frehley smoking guitar act where you really do not care what happens to it!

Thin tone more like cheap electronics and cheap frets, so bussing is there.

Action was good, pickups could be adjusted up and down, but makes little difference in sound.

This is a plywood body. Pickups are cheap, trems weak pot metal, I stripped the screws while taking them out!! Not even on the way in, cheap ass pot metal "saga kit" hardware. Features are all cheap.

Very bright, weak, p/u's have no low end at all, not even at the neck. I have one of those $79 fullerton "aria" copys and it sounds a hell of a lot fuller than this. The only plus is it came with d adarrio's stock.

Neck's ok, cheap rosewood like the new low end bc rich's, fast but cheap and light. Set up? Mine was maxed out on the saddles and still buzzed, nice tolerences guys, I think the only tolerances that they believe in are the ones they have on their quality standards with this cheap liece of plywood. Not a good deal at all. Neck pockets looses like its got 100,000 miles of playing on it.I can actually insert a penny between the neck and the body at the pocket. EL CHEAPO!!!

You can rely on it to buzz all the time. You can also rely on getting a plywood body!!!

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THis ones a piece of shit. I have the JT50 walnut sg coipy and its the exact opposite, as with most copies go for the set necks, all bolt ons are cheap, no fender copies for less than what a real ensanada special will cost ya, I'd go with the standard squire before this thing. In an effort to salvage my investment I painted it and made it a cheapo frankenstrat w/ a fat squier neck and a guitarfetish pre wired paf doubble fat strat pickguard, 120 dollars and its decent, just dont expect real wood. The type of guitar ya can NEVER get a case for, a case would be worth more than this (stock) thing anyway. Come on jay!!

A generic Strat copy, with 3 single coils and a rosewood neck. I bought this thing for my son, as I think every struggling guitarist should have to deal with a cheap guitar when they're starting off. Features are the same for all Strats & copies.

My son is just starting out, so he thinks every guitar sounds great. However...I've run the Turser through its paces after my son has gone to bed, and I'm not impressed. The single-coil pickups are thin & weak, and the guitar seems "dead" in my hands.

Action wasn't bad, but fret buzzes and generally poor workmanship turned me off.

Quite frankly....this thing is a piece of junk. Poor workmanship & components add up to a bad guitar in general. I would never take this guitar to a gig.

I'm going to trash this piece o' crap and give my son my '62 reissue Telecaster (as much as it pains me) very shortly.

Never bothered.

I've been playing 20+ years. I own a myriad of expensive guitars, amps, and equipment. I bought this guitar for my son, because it looked good and I believe that every aspiring guitar player should have to deal with a bad first instrument, to test their mettle.

However, this thing is bad....REALLY bad. These guitars look great from a distance, but they're total crap in person. My question is, who is "Jay Turser"? My guess is that it's a fake name invented by a Korean company to slap on the headstock for credibility. It's certainly not a legitimate luthier.

alright, i have to say the tremlo was good on it, the pickups were ok, and the tuners really sucked

k the sound absoulty sucked clean. dirty was ok through a prinston amp, but clean was terrible. The strings would buzz of the fret wire now mater how high you had them.

alright the nut broke 3 times (once when i was on stage) um, the tuning pegs sucked crap! they would actally move by thremselves!! this guitar was full of flaws right out of the box

this guitar weighs about 3 pounds so if you dropped it it would be a total loss. It dents and scratches really easy, ummm i would never gig with this guitar without a backup i would never gig with this guitat at all!!!

i got no info when i bought it, no warranty, no phonenumber nothing at all

this was my first guitar so i really didn't know much when i bought it, but if i did i would have never even considered it!!

its a cheap strat rip off dont buy it it sux!!

Well, it's a 1998 China-originating with 21 frets guitar... It looks like a freaking Fender strat... Lame 60s design... It's got 3 pick-ups, volume and 2 tone knobs... made out of cheap maple. The neck handles well but the keys tend to break easily, resulting in constant detuning... It was terrible with .42-.09 gauge, now with .52-.10 it's a little better. Conclusion: buy big strings!!! They sound better and detune less... Terrible look, good features nonetheless for the price: BEST BUY UNTIL YOU CAN AFFORD ANYTHING BETTER.

Man was I surprised... I was using a Peavey Rage 158 amp with gain from the amp. The sound was cool in regular tuning for playing any kind of metal... Then I bought a Ibanez SM-7 effect... OMG!!!! Incredible!!! I can now downtune this piece of junk as low as a 7-strings and it still plays very well! Am I the only one that can play KoRn on a 6-strings??? But then again, not too loud, it can't play very loud without sounding bad (it's not the amp, I can play a lot louder with it with my Ibanez K-7)

Then, man was I disapointed... Never seen a guitar handle so bad clean sounds... you hear every goddam string hitting the neck everytime you play... I got it to sound OK by tuning it to its highest and playing very softly...

Conclusion: excellent gain-playing, terrible clean...

it came in terrible condition, i had to re-wire everything on it and straighten up the neck... well the guy at the shop did but still ;)

been playing it since 1999 and it still sounds like it did on the first day ;)

didn't need jay turser to come and fix it ;)

I own a Ibanez K-7 and don't play JT-30 anymore. However, this JT-30 was my first guitar and I loved it from the day I got it to the day I got my K-7 ;)

I don't know when this guitar was made, but I do know it was built in China (thanks to the sticker on the back of the headstock). It's your standard strat copy, 22 fret rosewood fingerboard on a bolt-on maple neck, 3 single coils with a 5-way selector switch, volume/tone/tone controls, floating strat-style tremolo, see-thru black finish, and crappy tuners. I bought it used as part of a package (gig-bag, picks, cable, and a Peavy Rage 150 amp). This was my first guitar.

I play mostly metal, punk, and some pink floyd stuff, so you can imagine that this guitar doesn't really suit my style that much. But, as a beginer's guitar, it did it's job well. It's suprisingly versitile for its price, and stands up well against any squire guitar. It has a pretty bright sound, but gets really noisy at high volumes using any coil by itself. I'm currently using a fender princeton 65, an Ibanez 7-string, a Kramer Vangaurd, and a load of effects. I really only use this guitar with the peavy amp for late night practice.

For a strat knock-off, this guitar is really well built. The only real problems I've had with it are the tuners (they're pretty much crappy), some intonation adjustments (no problem), and some noise. Also, I had to readjust the strap buttons.

I have really beat the hell out of this guitar, and it has gladly taken my abuse and asked for more. The hardware has lasted os far, and the strap buttons (after adjustments) are solid. I can always depend on this thing. I would use it as a back-up to gig, but I'd probably have to fit it with humbucker first to match my music.

I've been playing for about 3 years, and as I said before, I play mostly metal, punk, etc. If it were lost or stolen, I'd probably get a squire fat strat instead, so I can get distortion and clean tones. The whammy bar was fun to play with as a beginner, and it was a great guitar to learn on. I wish the tuners were better, but for $150 bucks with a good amp, who cares. I would reccomend this to anybody starting out at guitar.

Strat copy made in china, 21 fret neck with med frets and rose wood fingerboard mounted on a one peice maple neck. Has all the standard strat features such as 5 way togle and floating bridge. Made from two peice solid wood construction (basswood ?) with an extremelly atractive grain. the finish is a transparent candy apple looking finish. The bridge looks an awful lot like an american strat brige except that it's all chromed. The tuners are your run of the mill cheapy type non sealed but with covers over them.

I play mostly blues and progressive rock and this guitar tends to send me to the blues sound right away, I would say that country players would love this guitar because of it's very trebly and flat midle sounding pickups.It did surprise me that it had hum canceling qualities in the second and fouth position on the togle switch but other than that it did have your usual sigle coil hum. Due to the fact that the guitar is so bright and that you can roll down the tone controls then I would say that this guitar is reasonably versatile one. I ran it thru a Peavey Delta blues all tuber, a Peavey Transtube Audition 110 and a Fender Hot Rod deville 4X10 and though it got along well with the two Peaveys it just loved the Fender. My guess is that the mid bias of the 10 inch speakers on the Fender suit it best. Not unlike the typical fender it does not like the distortion type of effects, the pickups are just to trebly and all the loud volume super distortion freaks arent going to be happy with this one.

The action was well sent up but when I got it home the first thing I did was re-string and re-intonate to my liking,the pickups had to be raised a tad but the setings may have been ok for other players. The two peice solid body was of mached for grain and the wood grain athough very attractive would not look any where near as nice in a clear finish.When you look close at the guitar you can see that the wood prep could use more attention but the finishing department does a fine job at their end. The woods althought tonaly sound are not as visually pleasing as high end guitars but are not bottom of the barell either. My real beef on this otherwise prety fair instrument is THE TUNING PEGS !!! Man what garbage, as soon as I get a chance a set of schallers or spuzels are going on this thing, I literally took apart every tuning peg and with a set of vice grips and plyers had to realign them so that they wouldn't creak and moan like old rusty steel hinges and they I lubed them with Lithium grease. The five way togle works well but feels light it's ok but I'm just used to heavier action. If it were not for the tuners this guitar would score a heck of a lot higher

My only real beef is the tuners, this guitar is as solid as the real thing, It's a drop dead gorgeous guitar that most manufacturers would be proud of. With the present tuners on it I would be a little leary of playing live only because of the lack of quick tuning ability and no slipage that good tuning pegs give you, bottom line is that I would not hesitate to gig with guitar even without a back up once the proper modification is done.

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I have been playing for 34 years and own various solid state and tube amplifiers. I am satisfied with my purchase over all and when I am finished modifying and upgrading this guitar then I will give it to my son as a gift. I would buy this guitar again in an instant over 90% of the other strats out there if it were stolen or destroyed. If the makers were to put to quality hard ware on this guitar from the factory and watch the prep of the wood a bit pror to finishing then they would have one of the top guitars out there in the strat catagory. This guitar looks nicer than my G&L Legacy and is the match of ANY Fender Stratocaster tonaly.

This thing was made in 1998, in China. It has 21 frets. It has all the standard strat controls, 5-way switch (lose), volume, two tone controls. Has 3 single coil pickups, some cheap chinease no-name. Passive electronics. The body is made from some unidentified wood, REALLY light. Maple neck, with a rosewood fretboard. Has nice looking red transparent finish. It's a strat copy. Has a standart tremolo bridge. Has some cheap tuners, one slips a lot, but that might be my bad. Has a thin neck, with jumbo frets.

I play it all, but tend to stick around Black Sabbath. It's pretty versitile, kind of glassy. I'm putting it through a Peavy rage 158, with a crybaby wah-wah, and a BOSS PH-2 Super Phaser. It's VERY noisy with the distortion on, in the brige pick up. Anything past the 10 fret starts to sound hollow and glassy. It can't hold a note worth a damn.

The action was pretty low when I got it, it buzzed really bad, but I adjusted it easily. The neck is built well, hasn't warped even after frequent bending. It had no flaws when I got it, it was set up perfectly, except for the low action.

It might play live, although very mediocre. The hardware is cheap, will not stand any length of time. The finish is beautifully done. I'm going to get the strap buttons replace with some strap locks, but they're fine. It isn't a tough guitar. It will definately need a backup for gigging

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If it were stolen, I'd definitly by something else. For $200 new, it's suprisingly good. I love how easy it is to play. I wish it had locking tuners. It's strange that attention was payed attention more on set up than on with is in the guitar. It's cheap and easy to play, but not too great.