Who uses Jay Turser guitars?

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A friend of mine grabbed one of their teles, I gotta say, for the price it was wonderful. easy to play, stayed in tune, nice tonality. Not to say they all will, I'd never buy one blind.
 
Yeah Ive played one of their teles before and they blew me out of the water too.


Mike
 
I bought one of their "solid body resonator" types several years ago. It's, at best, ok. I had to replace the pots, reset/reposition the resonator, reposition the under bridge pickup, take off the nut-bar thingy between the nut and the tuners, drill a hole between the actual resonator cavity and the little screen hole on the front.

I have about 12 guitars and this is the absolute bottom of the bucket for quality. BUT....

having totally ripped it above, I have to say it has an extremely unique sound for recording and it's a great camping/travel guitar. For an "electric", it can be played a relatively reasonable volumes accoustically and not even need an amp. The resonators were originally designed for additional volume and even on this POC the resonator concept works well. And this one does have reasonable action and stays in tune.

I could never recommend any of their other guitars. But because of the unique nature of this one (and because I was able to make it work for me), I give it a thumbs up.
 
i've seen them around...recorded a couple before

if i was getting something filthy cheap, the tursers would probably top the list
 
My father in law gave me his LP copy a few months ago 'cause he doesn't play it as much anymore (this guitar but w/ gold hardware: http://www.jayturser.com/jt-200c.php).

I don't have a lot of experience with these kind of guitars but this one is great...finish is nice, solid top, good action, plays well (for me anyway). It also stays in tune very well. I recently put new strings on it since getting it and I can pick it up days later and it's still in tune. Good probably do better with better pickups, but I'm not too concerned about that right now.

The only cons were -- mind you this guitar wasn't given to me new -- was the knob on the pup switch was stripped or something so I picked a new one up, the switch is kind of loose and not so great, but I might put a new one in sometime and the pots for the knobs were also loose but I tightened them up. Managed to bust a pot shaft but I replaced it easy enough.

Otherwise I can't complain, it was free.
 
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