JAY TURSER GUITARS

Jay Turser is a brand of guitar. Jay Turser makes acoustic, electric, bass, and jazz guitars as well as amps.
This company is known for some of the most well-made "budget" guitars available. The company received Guitar Player magazine's 2004 Reader's Choice Award for Ultimate Value for their JT-200 line. It makes a variety of models including flying v's, double necks, hollow body archtops, les paul "knockoffs", and many more models of affordable guitars. One unique model is the Surf Master, which resembles a Fender Jaguar but has 3 P90 pickups.
The Guitar line is making constant improvements in quality which have allowed them to surpass their competition.
One notable reason for their large expansion has been their association with MusicLandCentral.com , which sells approx 7,000 Jay Turser Guitars a year and is their largest world-wide dealer.


Jay Turser Warlord V Review:

Features : 10 Metallic Silver Maple top on Pauwlina? (light) Body, exotic gothic flying V style with round cutaways bottom and each side plus small ones on the oversize 3x3 headstock with center cut at top like a can opener smaller than the widow BC Rich type. Gold hardware and oversize hex key pickup bobbins ala dirty fingers style. Tune-o-matic with stoptail, 1- 3 way switch and one gold knurled volume control. 22 medium jumbo frets, smooth ends, on nice rosewood fretboard on fast mahogany neck, painted like headstock silver metallic. Neck 1 5/8" x 7/8" to 2 3/16 at 22, 7/8" to 14th then tapers into set neck body joint with full access all the way. Concave sided MOP with Abalone center marker blocks and ivory binding body, neck, and headstock with side markers in black on the upper neck binding and abalone stripe on body and headstock. Real stuff not plastic. Nut is white plastic very much like bone. stylized red tortoise trussrod cover in headstock shape, and tortoise solver dollar size on output lower rounded V. High output GFS Crusader/Dirty Fingers style black ringed humbuckers with very different tones, to eliminate tone control need. Came with L to straight medium quality 10' cable and trussrod allen wrench. The decorative features are an 11, while the basics are a 9 for just one control and switch. 10 for great pickups that are all pole adjustable and nice grover style with big keys tuners in gold. 24.75" scale with D'Addario strings installed. Deluxus Maximus.
Sound : 10 I play rock/blues/metal and put it through the paces on a Class A Boutique and Orange 1x 12 and on a Carvin SX3412 dirty and clean channels with and without chorus/reverb. The guitar was not noisy. Bright articulated smooth on the bridge, but not too bright as to be getting tele type sounds, more like a top of the line Gibson bridge tone. The neck has a totally different bassy tone more metallic than a LP even ZW. On both is a great blues to bluesy rock tone. They are full sounding on every pickup setting, smoothly rich on the bridge and blatant orgy rich on the neck pickup--very metal. It will do what I like to do, except no whammy. I certainly don't always want one, and the sustain is great on this guitar. No mud, no tinkle.
Action, Fit, & Finish : 9 I lowered the action 1/16", and the high 3 were sharp so had to intonate them, then tightened the keys and adjusted the pickups which were a little low. It was set up just adequately at the factory and sent out without anyone taking it out and fine tuning everything, that's why I got it so cheap(you pay 140 extra for the set up!). I looked inside the two rectangular flush covers on the back, too. Close examination revealed no flaws in either the paint job or the inlays, or wiring. 10 after I set it up, and put Dunlop 65 on the strings.
Reliability/Durability : 10 This will withstand live playing easy. It will get scratches as they usually do whether you like it or not. The hardware is very good and of medium thickness on the plating, so down the road it will wear off some. Very solid strap buttons. You wouldn't need any backup unless you wanted some others for hollowbody or twang sounds. The Vs are rounded, and the balance is close enough as to not present a nose heavy fall.
Overall Rating : 10 I'm an old man in my second childhood, playing most of the time since the Stones came out. If stolen, I would have to track down the thief and slow torture him to death. I've got another old Mustaine style King V, but this is even nicer in all ways. Similar to the Gibson/Epiphone oldie modernized and much better looking and more ballsy. The 3 way is mounted such that I could not do a Bowen Handle or Les Trem mod, unfortunately (unless I went with a top bar lefty model). I don't need whammies on everything, and can do plenty of bends anyway. I am happy all around with this monster

Jay Turser JT-200C Review:

Features : 8 2006 - Les Paul copy. 24.75" scale. Mahogany neck and chambered mahogany body with thin cap of figured maple. Tiger's Eye (aka "translucent walnut") finish from China. OK flame-like quilt (not very deep) with gold hardware, black "top hat" knobs and black pickguard. Unlike earlier Jay Tursers, the block inlays are not even fair copies of mother-of-pearl. The headstock "inlays" are poor holographic stickers. Finish is poor along neck as it is bumpy (on the high-E side, no less). Chinese hardware leaves a bit to be desired. Frets needed a steel wool treatment to clean glue/finish/adhesives off.
Sound : 9 Advertised as alnico pickups, they dirty up nicely. They do well considering how hollow the guitar is. Better than most Epi LPs that I've spent many hours playing.
Action, Fit, & Finish : 7 Action is great, no bumps/twists on the fretboard. Pickups needed no adjustment and the top was a decent bookmatch. Three-piece mahogany body, two piece neck (scarf joint?). Finish could use lots of improvement. According to their mass of Ebay distributors, they are using a new factory... This 06 model was a lot sloppier than their 2002-2005 models I've gotten.
Reliability/Durability : 8 At this price, they're very well built. I'd never play without a backup anyway - I've got 15 now...
Overall Rating : 8 I've been playing 27 years now. I love the guitar and just wish it was a true solid body. I could buy four of these for the same price of a single Carvin and be quite happy with all the variances I can get. Frankly, I am on the endorsement role of a couple of other companies and I buy Tursers to get different tones, scales, feels, looks, etc...