Haha!! Your story brought back so many memories - especially the old "hamdbag" style vinyl cover LOL. I'm sure I had one of them! Plus all. The second hand shops - so relatable... I just don't remember seeing copy Telecasters though - it was always Strats or Les Paul's!! Just bought a JT300 and reviewed a few on my channel actually - and bought a sea foam green JS 300 for my daughter. Unbelievable guitars for the money!! Cool video matey!
Received mine yesterday and it’s a lovely cream colour like the one you described as the 1978 tele you mentioned. I was very surprised with the quality of the guitar and a beautiful Satin roasted Maple, Nick. I thought the pickups might need upgrading, but they sound fantastic. Definitely a keeper
One of the pickups has the polarity reversed, so when combined with the other pickup, the noise is eliminated. That's why newer Stratocasters are quiet when the pickups are combined; the middle pickup has the polarity reversed
I feel your pain. I know Fender made a buttercream strat and I was stuck for a while with close but not buttercream. I finally found the one that was the right color, got it from a second hand shop as well but its great.
Theres less noise with both pickups because the 2 single coils will be wired with one of them in reverse to "buck the hum" like a humbucker does. obviously its not as quiet as a humbucker because they are further apart.
Very cool. I dig it. The only drawback I can see, and this obviously doesn't apply to every player, is that the black fret dots might be hard to see while gigging in a dark setting. Why not pearloid dots to create more contrast?
Damn, that is a big deal to me. I had bad experience with the bullet and sonic (replacing the bullet) and cost the same as this, but the €400 Squiers? damn.
Love that Roasted maple neck, looks the part for 150 notes you can't go wrong, and a great platform to mod. A kid starting guitar today is spoilt for choice for a bargain first axe!
I bought a lefty one of these shortly after buying a white lefty JS-400. I love them both and they're both keepers. The JS-400 was perfectly set up, trem included. Like yours, the action on the JT-300 was a tad high. Five minutes later with the neck relief tweaked and the saddles lowered a bit it was perfect, using the allen leys they provide. I love the colour - lefties usually have black or sunburst. - and it looks fab with an ashtray cover. I've come to prefer top loaded teles because the strings are easier to bend. Good luck on your search.
Hi Nikolaki, I think its indeed a very decent guitar that with minimal setup adjustment and fret polishing would change it into a very good guitar. I couldn't get used to the bananacaster idea though, so I returned it - the search continues...
@Karl Sheridan would be interesting to find out if they're maintaining their QC. Hope you enjoy it, the necks on these guitars are an absolute joy. Looks great with an ashtray cover as well.
Thanks for the review! Could You have the chance to compare it with the Harley Benton TE-52? (I'm in a hesitation now in between three guitars, almost in the same price range: Harley Benton TE-52, JET JT-300, Squier Affinity Telecaster). Thanks in advance! Greetz, Viktor
@@ColinLPrice Yes, that would fe a fair battle. :-) However, I just ordered the Harley Benton TE-52 from Thomann. Hopefully that will be a nice and playable instrument. You're welcome to check it! (in Hungary)
It would be a bit of a drive 🙂 I think you'll not regret that Harley Benton, if they made it in the colour scheme I'm still looking for I'd order one for sure.
@@ColinLPrice yes, not the nearby village! 😉 What I have ordered, is the natural version, I like to see the grains of the wood. I ordered a nice gigbag with it also. Since I'm not a guitar hero, this guitar will be more than enough for me. From the Gibson branch I have an Epi SG G-400 Vintage Worn Brown, I swapped the pickups to Tokai Gotoh PAF, I like it also.
I've bought the Harley Benton TE-52, but sent it back, because it was too uncomfortable for me (too heavy). So I ordered the JET JT 300 in sunburst, and I like it so much! Maybe the sound of the HB was better, but I will change the pickups.
Great review. Subscribed; as much for The Smiths poster in the frame behind you as for the review. The finish is probably Jet’s take on a butterscotch finish. Would get one of these for modding. Pickups and wiring harness from Bloodstone Guitars would be first on the list as well as brass intonate-able saddles from Wilkinson. Thanks 🙏🏼
@@ColinLPrice Yeah they either seem to be yellow like yours or butterscotch but never quite the same blonde on the website .In the end I bought the JT 350 in black ,you cant go wrong with black .I'm hoping this IS the one Ive been looking for . Great review and cant wait to get my hands on that roasted Canadian maple neck looks amazing
There’s a few things, a water pipe in the room, a train going by and the not so good shielding in the guitar while in a room with various electrical devices near by too.
Colin, you're the very first unoxing video I've ever watched. Normally, I cut forward to tones etc, but i was doing shit around the kitchen and your vid came up on auto play. Straight into that great story of your first guitar. After that, i had to see your reaction when you opened the box. I'm confused, though. On anywhere I've seen Jet guitars, including their site, those are nowhere near 'cream'. Butterscotch, yes. Blonde, maybe. But *definitely not* cream. Anyway, I liked that the music that got you hooked on electric guitar was Tonic For The Troops! I was also surprised that you had the 30 quid to pay for the guitar, at 13 years old in 1978? I was 10 then, and my take home pay (before tax) was approx 10 pence. I might even be overestimating that. How the hell did you have 30 quid in your piggy bank at 13, in 1978??! My first electric was around 10 years later; it was a Marlin Slammer. Not a bad guitar, if memory serves. But I hated it, cos what I wanted more than life itself, was a black telecaster with a white pickguard. Joe Strummer hooked me on its looks; Keef on its roots, which led me to Muddy Waters and them guys. But mine made me, in my mind, Hank bloody Marvin. First, it was a strat copy. Second, it was this dayglo red. Now, of course, I sort of love his sound, but back then... And it had a trem. What the fuck was I going to do with that? I wanted punk rock thunder! Anyway, I'm *NOT* after a Slammer. But I might get a Jet tele. I might even play it.
Thanks for the long response and glad you enjoyed the story :-) On the colour - I'd seen it described on the Bax Music site as blonde with photo's that looked (to me) like a solid deep cream. Maybe a tint darker than I'd have liked but certainly more cream than yellow. Turned out to be the other way round. Still a great guitar though, just not my colour. The 30 pounds I had burning a hole in my pocket was what I'd saved up together with me asking for money instead of a birthday presents from family. It was certainly a lot of money to me back then. After getting the guitar it took me ages to get enough money for a real amp. I've never tried a Marlin guitar, but I remember the make was indeed a reasonably good German (?) make. I completely get the idea of the image stress as a teenager with a red Strat instead of a black Tele... as we all know, image is VERY important :-) I can certainly recommend the Jet Tele. It's great for the money. Thats if you can find the colour for you. The yellow was just too much banana for me.
Its a good guitar for a new guitarist but for people like me who have been playing for over 15 years i would need a minimum of a Squier 50s Telecaster , just something around £300 quid mark is what a semi pro player should be aiming for as the really cheap guitars have really cheap electronics inside.
I agree on the Squier classic vibe Tele's being better, great instruments, I've tried them too. I think you get certainly get what you pay for in these price ranges. If you go to higher price ranges though, it feels like it gets to a gradient of diminishing returns. I'm pleasantly surprised how much you get for some of these low price instruments though. For example I recently got a Harley Benton Jazzmaster copy and have gigged it a few times. It feels good, sounds good, it's light, stays in tune and it looks good. Electronics in it are ok at the moment, I'll be putting a treble bleed mod on the volume pot at some time though. And if anything fails I can replace it when we get that far.
@@ColinLPrice yeah I would say modern Strat tele and Les Paul copies are a lot better than when I was a kid , My first Lea Paul was a cheap Westfield copy made in China, it was terrible 🤣👍 the Vintage copies are good though I had a V100 les Paul very good for the price and yeah no point buying a USA strat , had one of those and it sounds the same as my Mexican strat , I'm thinking of buying a cheap Jet Strat just for practicing 😀 👍 as for £130 quid it's a bargain.
the electronics are the easiest thing to upgrade tho! The neck on the Jet's are better than *anything* Squier puts out other than the 2022 Contemporary models!
Jet is a great guitar, but the cheap ceramic pickups sound so muddy... Swapping them with some good ones (like Seymour Duncan) is a good choice to have the same quality of a mex fender or even better!
Well I agree its a good guitar, but in my opinion it takes more than just swapping the pickups to get to the level of my old Mexican Fender Telecaster. The frets need polishing and maybe the pot meters replacing as well to make it comparable.
Hi! Nice review, I am interested in the Jet Teles... If I am not mistaken, the photo and the colour you were expecting is from the Jet 350 , butterscotch colour, with the alnico pickups and the string through body, slightly more expensive than your Jet 300.. Check it out! I understand your quest because the colour is important for me too.. Cheers!
Never liked the MIM teles, they don't play well for me. Electronics? Providing they already work, new pots, cap etc won't make much difference at all. Yes, new pickups will change the tone, although ceramics should not be written off. They're usually quite powerful and exert less string pull, but do try them at high drive volumes to check they're not microphonic. If they are, you can't fix em'! For a really good set, you're looking at spending more than the guitar is worth! If the guitar resonates well acoustically though, it can be worth it. The buzz is 60 cycle hum common to all single coil guitars when near to an amp etc. Most modern teles are hum cancelling in the middle position though.
@@ColinLPrice- Don’t know if that level of guitar is available in your country. Their high end guitars are hand made in Brazil and their “affordable lines” are made in Asia.
Just bought the exact same bananacaster!😄 looking forward to it, it looks and sounds great
Have fun! It’s a great guitar. I’ve just found a different make of guitar that might be ‘the one’. As soon as it’s in stock I’ll be ordering one.
Haha!! Your story brought back so many memories - especially the old "hamdbag" style vinyl cover LOL. I'm sure I had one of them! Plus all. The second hand shops - so relatable... I just don't remember seeing copy Telecasters though - it was always Strats or Les Paul's!! Just bought a JT300 and reviewed a few on my channel actually - and bought a sea foam green JS 300 for my daughter. Unbelievable guitars for the money!! Cool video matey!
Received mine yesterday and it’s a lovely cream colour like the one you described as the 1978 tele you mentioned. I was very surprised with the quality of the guitar and a beautiful Satin roasted Maple, Nick. I thought the pickups might need upgrading, but they sound fantastic. Definitely a keeper
Sounds like you got a better colour than I did :-)
Have fun with it! I was very impressed with the guitar, certainly for the price.
£35 was the cost of my first electric - in 1978 - a used, made in Japan Les Paul copy. Stripped the paint off it too! 👍
We had lots of smart ideas when we were younger :-)
One of the pickups has the polarity reversed, so when combined with the other pickup, the noise is eliminated. That's why newer Stratocasters are quiet when the pickups are combined; the middle pickup has the polarity reversed
I feel your pain. I know Fender made a buttercream strat and I was stuck for a while with close but not buttercream. I finally found the one that was the right color, got it from a second hand shop as well but its great.
I just ordered one, probably upgrade the pickups and pots
Theres less noise with both pickups because the 2 single coils will be wired with one of them in reverse to "buck the hum" like a humbucker does. obviously its not as quiet as a humbucker because they are further apart.
I like that color. I just ordered one. 👍 👍 👍
In the 70's a mate of mine had a Jedson in that cream with maple board, was a nice guitar.
I'm still hunting for one :-)
Very cool. I dig it. The only drawback I can see, and this obviously doesn't apply to every player, is that the black fret dots might be hard to see while gigging in a dark setting. Why not pearloid dots to create more contrast?
I have this problem sometimes on one other guitar, black markings on a darker wood neck, is not easy to see in a low light situaiton.
great video!
I bought a Jet JS300 left handed and I was very, very surprised.
I think the guitar is better than Squiers in the 400€ range.
Thanks for watching, glad you liked the video :-) What's now available as 'cheap' gear is quite often amazing.
Damn, that is a big deal to me. I had bad experience with the bullet and sonic (replacing the bullet) and cost the same as this, but the €400 Squiers? damn.
I think the colour looks great with that roasted maple neck, so much so I’ve just ordered one 🍌
Love that Roasted maple neck, looks the part for 150 notes you can't go wrong, and a great platform to mod.
A kid starting guitar today is spoilt for choice for a bargain first axe!
If only they’d got the colour right :-)
@@ColinLPrice it's butterscotch, Tele classic, forget the past, live for today fella! 🤣😉
Love the colour 🙌
I bought a lefty one of these shortly after buying a white lefty JS-400. I love them both and they're both keepers. The JS-400 was perfectly set up, trem included. Like yours, the action on the JT-300 was a tad high. Five minutes later with the neck relief tweaked and the saddles lowered a bit it was perfect, using the allen leys they provide. I love the colour - lefties usually have black or sunburst. - and it looks fab with an ashtray cover. I've come to prefer top loaded teles because the strings are easier to bend. Good luck on your search.
Hi Nikolaki, I think its indeed a very decent guitar that with minimal setup adjustment and fret polishing would change it into a very good guitar. I couldn't get used to the bananacaster idea though, so I returned it - the search continues...
I am also a lefty and just ordered the same guitar 🤘🏼
@Karl Sheridan would be interesting to find out if they're maintaining their QC. Hope you enjoy it, the necks on these guitars are an absolute joy. Looks great with an ashtray cover as well.
@@nikolaki good to know, thanks 👍🏼
There's a cream coloured jedson telecaster copy on ebay right now, looks a bit battered though.
Oh dear...
Thanks for the tip - I'll go have a look!
Tonic for the troops one of my all time favourite LP's
It still a great album - I'll have to cover one of the tracks some time.
Thanks for the review! Could You have the chance to compare it with the Harley Benton TE-52? (I'm in a hesitation now in between three guitars, almost in the same price range: Harley Benton TE-52, JET JT-300, Squier Affinity Telecaster). Thanks in advance! Greetz, Viktor
That would be a good comparison. At the moment I don’t have those guitars. If I get them I’ll certainly make a video about them.
@@ColinLPrice Yes, that would fe a fair battle. :-) However, I just ordered the Harley Benton TE-52 from Thomann. Hopefully that will be a nice and playable instrument. You're welcome to check it! (in Hungary)
It would be a bit of a drive 🙂
I think you'll not regret that Harley Benton, if they made it in the colour scheme I'm still looking for I'd order one for sure.
@@ColinLPrice yes, not the nearby village! 😉 What I have ordered, is the natural version, I like to see the grains of the wood. I ordered a nice gigbag with it also. Since I'm not a guitar hero, this guitar will be more than enough for me. From the Gibson branch I have an Epi SG G-400 Vintage Worn Brown, I swapped the pickups to Tokai Gotoh PAF, I like it also.
I've bought the Harley Benton TE-52, but sent it back, because it was too uncomfortable for me (too heavy). So I ordered the JET JT 300 in sunburst, and I like it so much! Maybe the sound of the HB was better, but I will change the pickups.
Well, the little hard core budget TE style' gotta be some color. I like the yellow.
Hi Colin, good video, I'm going to get one, purely for playing slide, in standard tuning, it won't matter if the action is high, or sharp frets.
Thanks Anthony. I'm sure you'll like it. Its great for the price.
The Colour i believe is called Butterscotch 😁
Great review. Subscribed; as much for The Smiths poster in the frame behind you as for the review. The finish is probably Jet’s take on a butterscotch finish. Would get one of these for modding. Pickups and wiring harness from Bloodstone Guitars would be first on the list as well as brass intonate-able saddles from Wilkinson. Thanks 🙏🏼
Thanks :-)
The poster is a copy of the one from the gig I saw them play at a long long time ago.
Muster up the mustard tele
i love it !
and its the same color as your sweater so you mays well keep it ..😁
the real color is better then the one on the picture. Love the Bananacaster
It was a good guitar for sure. But just I’ve ordered a different model that I hope is the colour I wanted. Video to come on that one soon…
@@ColinLPrice thinking about ordering this one
I have one ' mine is the double neck version.
What is the colour Blonde or Butterscotch?
To me it was more yellow than either of those. And it’s a solid colour if you get what I mean, you can’t see through to the wood grain at all.
@@ColinLPrice Yeah they either seem to be yellow like yours or butterscotch but never quite the same blonde on the website .In the end I bought the JT 350 in black ,you cant go wrong with black .I'm hoping this IS the one Ive been looking for . Great review and cant wait to get my hands on that roasted Canadian maple neck looks amazing
Where does that high pitch sound come from? It's not a 50Hz hum.
There’s a few things, a water pipe in the room, a train going by and the not so good shielding in the guitar while in a room with various electrical devices near by too.
Colin, you're the very first unoxing video I've ever watched. Normally, I cut forward to tones etc, but i was doing shit around the kitchen and your vid came up on auto play. Straight into that great story of your first guitar. After that, i had to see your reaction when you opened the box.
I'm confused, though. On anywhere I've seen Jet guitars, including their site, those are nowhere near 'cream'. Butterscotch, yes. Blonde, maybe. But *definitely not* cream. Anyway, I liked that the music that got you hooked on electric guitar was Tonic For The Troops!
I was also surprised that you had the 30 quid to pay for the guitar, at 13 years old in 1978? I was 10 then, and my take home pay (before tax) was approx 10 pence. I might even be overestimating that. How the hell did you have 30 quid in your piggy bank at 13, in 1978??!
My first electric was around 10 years later; it was a Marlin Slammer. Not a bad guitar, if memory serves. But I hated it, cos what I wanted more than life itself, was a black telecaster with a white pickguard. Joe Strummer hooked me on its looks; Keef on its roots, which led me to Muddy Waters and them guys.
But mine made me, in my mind, Hank bloody Marvin. First, it was a strat copy. Second, it was this dayglo red. Now, of course, I sort of love his sound, but back then...
And it had a trem. What the fuck was I going to do with that? I wanted punk rock thunder!
Anyway, I'm *NOT* after a Slammer. But I might get a Jet tele.
I might even play it.
Thanks for the long response and glad you enjoyed the story :-)
On the colour - I'd seen it described on the Bax Music site as blonde with photo's that looked (to me) like a solid deep cream. Maybe a tint darker than I'd have liked but certainly more cream than yellow. Turned out to be the other way round. Still a great guitar though, just not my colour.
The 30 pounds I had burning a hole in my pocket was what I'd saved up together with me asking for money instead of a birthday presents from family. It was certainly a lot of money to me back then. After getting the guitar it took me ages to get enough money for a real amp.
I've never tried a Marlin guitar, but I remember the make was indeed a reasonably good German (?) make. I completely get the idea of the image stress as a teenager with a red Strat instead of a black Tele... as we all know, image is VERY important :-)
I can certainly recommend the Jet Tele. It's great for the money. Thats if you can find the colour for you. The yellow was just too much banana for me.
Kool post. Did y’all wear those clothes to match your guitar?? 🎸. Next issue of Gentlemen’s Quarterly I suppose. Cheers Mate
I could have. But that would give the impression I prepare for my youtube video’s :-)
If you like the 'lightness' why don't you drill all the wood out of the giant chunk of timber that it is..?
This is why I like hollow body guitars maybe most.
@@ColinLPrice Good point. I might do that to the copy Strat I've got,
Was the second hand shop Steptoes on Vale Road?😂
Well remembered! I've been in there and bought things too :-)
But it was the one down on Enfield Road.
Its a good guitar for a new guitarist but for people like me who have been playing for over 15 years i would need a minimum of a Squier 50s Telecaster , just something around £300 quid mark is what a semi pro player should be aiming for as the really cheap guitars have really cheap electronics inside.
I agree on the Squier classic vibe Tele's being better, great instruments, I've tried them too. I think you get certainly get what you pay for in these price ranges. If you go to higher price ranges though, it feels like it gets to a gradient of diminishing returns.
I'm pleasantly surprised how much you get for some of these low price instruments though. For example I recently got a Harley Benton Jazzmaster copy and have gigged it a few times. It feels good, sounds good, it's light, stays in tune and it looks good. Electronics in it are ok at the moment, I'll be putting a treble bleed mod on the volume pot at some time though. And if anything fails I can replace it when we get that far.
@@ColinLPrice yeah I would say modern Strat tele and Les Paul copies are a lot better than when I was a kid , My first Lea Paul was a cheap Westfield copy made in China, it was terrible 🤣👍 the Vintage copies are good though I had a V100 les Paul very good for the price and yeah no point buying a USA strat , had one of those and it sounds the same as my Mexican strat , I'm thinking of buying a cheap Jet Strat just for practicing 😀 👍 as for £130 quid it's a bargain.
the electronics are the easiest thing to upgrade tho! The neck on the Jet's are better than *anything* Squier puts out other than the 2022 Contemporary models!
@@Cayres9most of the Westfield les pauls& SGs are really well made guitars...Mexican Strat?Thought u played an encore and an ibanez Gio...
@@MikeBaldwin666 I have many guitars too many from the past , problem is they are impossible to sell , tried selling but no interest
Great instruments
Jet's are good guitars.
I agree!
Jet is a great guitar, but the cheap ceramic pickups sound so muddy... Swapping them with some good ones (like Seymour Duncan) is a good choice to have the same quality of a mex fender or even better!
Well I agree its a good guitar, but in my opinion it takes more than just swapping the pickups to get to the level of my old Mexican Fender Telecaster. The frets need polishing and maybe the pot meters replacing as well to make it comparable.
Hi! Nice review, I am interested in the Jet Teles... If I am not mistaken, the photo and the colour you were expecting is from the Jet 350 , butterscotch colour, with the alnico pickups and the string through body, slightly more expensive than your Jet 300.. Check it out! I understand your quest because the colour is important for me too.. Cheers!
Glad you liked it Anthony, and thanks for the tip about the 350, I'd not seen that model. I'll go check it out!
Guitars have fretboards, violins have fingerboards!
I stand corrected!
@@ColinLPrice I didnt know until I also was corrected back in the '80s at University, my girlfriend was doing Music History
Never liked the MIM teles, they don't play well for me. Electronics? Providing they already work, new pots, cap etc won't make much difference at all. Yes, new pickups will change the tone, although ceramics should not be written off. They're usually quite powerful and exert less string pull, but do try them at high drive volumes to check they're not microphonic. If they are, you can't fix em'! For a really good set, you're looking at spending more than the guitar is worth! If the guitar resonates well acoustically though, it can be worth it. The buzz is 60 cycle hum common to all single coil guitars when near to an amp etc. Most modern teles are hum cancelling in the middle position though.
Or 50 Hz hum over here.
Tagima has the cream that you want. Tagima TW-55.
Thanks for the tip Chance, I'd not seen that make before, I'll check it out.
@@ColinLPrice- Don’t know if that level of guitar is available in your country.
Their high end guitars are hand made in Brazil and their “affordable lines” are made in Asia.
Unpeel the banacaster
I didn't think of that option :-)
J300 дерьмо,лучше J400 bk купить,рпзница в цене небольшая а по качеству лучше
I disagree about the J300, but I agree the 400 is probably better in some ways, like hardware. But I don’t think they make a Tele in the 400 series.