Jay Turser JT-300 Quilt Top

This is an update.
This has been my primary guitar for 3 years.
I have several expensive made in US guitars but this one sounds and plays the best.
I have been rehearsing and gigging with this guitar for 3 years with no problems.

Stock electronics work and sound good.

Nice quality and holds up well.

Never use a backup except for an acoustic/electric.

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I have been playing in bands for over 30 years and had many good guitars.
This is a workhorse and it is light.
I put a Fender neck on it but the JT neck is just as good.

2006 model.
Amber quilt top.
Gold hardware.
Rosewood fingerboard/maple neck.
Body is alder.
Mother of pearl (plastic) w/b/w pickguard.
3 single coil pickups.
Center pickup reverse wound/reverse polarity.

I was totally surprised at the sound.
Good strat quack.
Sounds as good as any Fender.

Flawless.
Beautiful.

Treat it well and it will last.

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I bought this guitar for the body.
It is very pretty.
I will install a vintage Fender maple fretboard neck.
And some electronics mods.
But as it is is just beautiful.
Great neck and good tuners.
I have been playing for over 35 years.
Had 60's and 70's Strats for 30 years.
This is as good as any.
5 way switch seems a little flimsy but works fine.
If it said Fender on the headstock people would pay $3,000 for it.
Custom Shop material here.
One of the lightest electrics I ever played.
Everyone loves it.
This is by far the best deal out there.
Bought it new on ebay for $105.

All standard strat features, plus a quilt finish and gold hardware. String through body with vibrato bar. New guitar made in China.

I've had a few American Strats in the past but have always gone back to set neck, humbucker equiped guitars. I decided to give this guitar a try. I'm glad I did. This Turser has all the Strat sounds one would expect. I play it through a Music Man HD 130 and it's a good match. It has great sustain for a bolt on neck.

I bought this off of eBay from a seller that does a pro setup. I took it out of the box, tuned it up, and was pleased to find the intonation perfect, the action just right with no fret buzz whatsoever, and smooth, fast frets. It stays in tune! The finish looks great in quilted amber. Add the gold hardware and you have one beautiful custom looking axe.

It seems like a solid guitar, but only time will tell.

As with most Tursers, it comes with a limited lifetime waranty.

I've been playing guitar for 33 years. I learned mostly from classic rock, but performed guitar oriented "new wave" in the 80s, and now play classic to alternative rock and whatever else I can fake. My other guitars are a Schecter Elite, Hamer Special, Les Paul Custom copy, Jay Turser 142 and 133, two Takamine 12 strings.
I just sold a Gibson Gold Top Hall of Fame Edition and a vintage Ibanez Artist, because I found that the cheap guitars made now offer great quality for the money. And I'm not a collector of vintage guitars. Let's face it, building guitars isn't rocket science.

Typical JT300 QT. Nce grain in the transparent natural. Very nice looking with gold hardware. Regular Strat stuff, 5 way control, three single P/Us.

This is as nice as any but the top of the line Fender Strats. The guy at the store said it is basically a 1957 or 62 Strat copy. Very quiet, and the nexk is really great. Maple neck. Does anything an old Strat will do and for a heck of a lot less money. I think it looks really classy and would play anywhere.

This one was set up right out of the store but is was a demo so I don't know how they come from the factory. Based upon past Tursers I've owned, you usually have to spend a little time getting them just right for you.

Playing 45 years. I wish guitars this good and this cheap were available when I was a kid. Don't let anyone fool you. This guitar is the best dollar for dollar guitar ever and would only be bested by a custom shop Fender. I have owned Fenders, Gibsons, Tursers, Gretsches, Martins, Seagull, Mosrite, G&L (another great guitar for the money, especially the Commanche). If I lost this one, I would not hesitate to buy another.

2000 red quilt 300. from china. paper thin laminate on top - but who cares it is great looking. s/s/s strat. whammy bar

i don't play well and have no style. but hey i like this neck better than my 66 335! i record with it through a johnson j-station and it sounds goood. it sounds good not amped. it has the typical noise of single coil guitars which i don't thrill to but at this price i can add some lace sensors later if i want.

it was pretty good out of the box but my seller fixed it up nice on the spot. it helps to go to a dealer who has a selection of tursers to choose from because lets face it they are all not going to be gems. the butterscotch one i tried is still sitting there 2 years later.

pick ups are well adjusted. 9after years of therapy ;-)

my guy said that, sure, i may want to get better pots and jack later but they cool now.

i dought i will play this live but it can take it. if it falls apart after a few years just buy another one - they're $200 bucks!!!!

hey if you had to ship it back to get it fixed - it would be cheaper just to get another one!!!!

36 years playing. i own a turser perc. bass which is cool too and tons of other stuff. if this is stolen i will get a purple one or a turser 134dc if i like the way it sounds and plays - looks very cool. i love and hate its weight. won't kill your back but it is so light that it won't sitt in your lap. just slides right off if you don't have a strap.

hey i'm telling my frewinds about tuser - i guess that is as good as an endorsement as it gets.

New, made in China, 22 frets. Not sure of the body-wood. Typical strat copy. This one was a transparent red.

The one, three and five tone settings were noisy. The two and four settings were quiet/fine. I just used it as a "living-room" guitar with a Korg PX3. I have no amp to run it through, so no comment on how it sounds through an amp. Through the headphones, the clean channels sounded very good, classic strat sound. Distorted it sounded good as well with OK sustain. Good variety. For the price, it sounded very good.

Here's where the problems began. I bought it brand new and the factory set-up was lousy. 1) The action was way too low with lots of buzzing and the bridge adjustments were all the way up, so there was no way I could further raise the strings. I was able to loosen the neck backing-plate screws and shim the neck which allowed me to adjust the action properly. After doing so, the action was very good. BTW, the neck fit into the body very tightly. 2) One of the strings had barely one winding around the tuning peg post. I had to immediately put on a new string. Actually, all the strings were dead so I had to put on a new set anyway. 3) A small flaw was that two of the marker dots on the side of the neck were not centered between the frets. A small point but an indication of sloppy craftsmanship. 4) The biggest problem was that the nut was a bit too far away from the first fret which made it impossible for any open string to be in tune with any fretted note. Any open chord sounded just horribly out of tune. The guitar was unplayable.

The finish was the guitar was absolutely beautiful. The neck felt very good, just the right width/depth for my hand. Frets felt very good. The back of the neck was well-finished. All-in-all, a very nice-feeling neck.

I could live with shimming the neck and the other minor flaws but the problem with the nut made the guitar simply unplayable. Therefore, the low score.

The guitar appeared to be solidly constructed, strap buttons seemed secure and solid. The control knobs seemed very cheap.

But I only had the guitar for a few days so no experience to comment on reliability/durability.

When I noticed the problems I tried to call the importers in New York. After three atempts, I never got past a secretary who finally suggested I contact the dealer who sold me the guitar. I contacted the dealer (Pavlov's Music in Augusta, Maine) and I asked for a replacement. He did not have a JT-300 QMT in stock. As I had bought the JT-300 QMT for $99.00, the price of a basic JT-300, I said that a good JT-300 would be fine as a replacement. I asked the dealer to please make sure the replacement guitar was free from defects. As it turned out, the replacement guitar had the very same nut problem. I returned it and, after a bit of a hassle, I had all my money refunded.

So, in my opinion, the warranty is meaningless and it depends on the integrity of the dealer. So, I give zero to the importer and a seven to the dealer for finally refunding my money after a hassle.

I have been playing the guitar for 35 years. In my opinion, if you get a good JT-300 QMT, it is a tremendously good deal, a very good guitar for the price. Just make sure you have the seller guarantee that the guitar is free from defects and make it clear that you will return a defective guitar. If it were lost or stolen, I would certainly get another one that was defect-free. If you get one free of defdects, it is a very, very good guitar for the money.

Well, my second Jay Turser guitar is on the block here, I went into this one with high expectations and this thing did NOT disappoint. It's basically an primped up Strat copy, I personally find it quite gorgeous. Same setup as your average Strat but with some nice gold hardware and a simply chic REAL quilt top. Mine is trans-black, and the quilting gives a very subtle effect to the finish, making it look like black satin, awesome. This is the prettiest Strat I've ever seen, that's for sure. Mine came with a nice lil gigbag a pair of cables, couple wrenches and the whammy bar.

Well, it does what it is supposed to (copy a Strat) plus more, and for the same price or less than a Squire Strat, you gotta love that.

Well, I bought this guitar to be used for more mellow stuff and what not but I got a pleasant little surprise when I clicked on the hard distortion. The bridge pickup on this guitar SEETHES! Not only does it dish out a nice full, crunchy low end but harmonics are quite easy to come by. THIS, I was not expecting, but I'm not gona complain. Only drawback, of course, is that the pickups are single coils. They're quiet for single coils but still damned by their inheirant hum and feedback problems. This guitar sounds great clean, seems to cover a nice range of diffrent sounds.

It's not perfect, but damned if it's not nice!

Welp... I don't have anything to say LOL. Everything is put together perfectly! The quilted top looks great, gold hardware is nice and shiny. The body appears to be a single block of wood (Aside from the maple top of course) which allegedly contributes much to sound quallity. Only think I did after taking it out of the box was tune it, the inotation was right on, and the action was set perfect for me.

Excellent!

It seems solid to me, never gig without a backup tho.

There's a lifetime warranty on all JT guitars, but I think it will be voided once I switch out the white plastic hardware with black. Not that is matters to me.

This is an absoutely incredible guitar, hands down. You will not find a Strat copy of this quallity for even twice as much as I payed. I would readilly put it up against a Fender in a head-to-head sonic evaluation, I think it would more than hold it's own. So, if you've got around 200 bucks and are out lookin for a Strat, look no further than Jay Turser, you'll get ALOT more bang for your buck.