Jet Guitars JT-350 | The new leader in the sub $500 Tele category?! In-depth Review & Demo

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This is the Jet Guitars JT-350 SB R: an affordable take on the classic Fender Telecaster style of guitar, but equipped with a humbucker pickup and a modern-feeling neck!

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Jet Guitars have been under the radar for me for a long time. I’ve seen them around at shows and in a few stores, but the JT-350 is the first Jet I’ve been able to properly spend some time with, and my expectations were sky high.

Why? Well, because – on paper, at least – Jet Guitars seem to have out of this world specs. The JT-350 can currently (time of writing: June 2025) be had for around $350/€350, pricing it well below something like a Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster.

However, just take a look at these specs. Under a beautiful sunburst finish (which is complemented by binding and a tortoiseshell scratch plate) we have a basswood body. Teles are normally solid slabs of wood, but the JT-350 has a big tummy cut on the back, plus a much deeper cutaway on the lower bout side than on a standard Fender/Squier model, giving us much improved upper fret access.

The pickups are Jet’s own alnico models, and we get a Tele-style bridge single coil and a neck humbucker with a coil split option. The bridge is a Wilkinson chrome affair, in the modern style with six saddles.

The neck is satin Canadian roasted maple, and is topped with a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard. The scale length is 25.5” (like a Fender Tele, then) and the fingerboard radius is 9.5”. The neck shape is Jet’s Modern C profile, not too thick and not too fat, and all this gives the JT-350 a pleasantly modern playing feel that should be comfy for any hand size. Finally, the guitar is topped off with a set of Jet-branded locking tuners.

All this for $350 seems like great value for money… but how good is the JT-350 really? Can it match the trusted quality of a Squier Classic Vibe? Or does it feel more like a cheaper (albeit excellent value for money) Harley Benton? Could the JT-350 be the best Telecaster on the market for sub $500?! It’s time to find out!

In the video, I put the JT-350 through its paces in as many different musical styles as I can, from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, punk, metal, and more – let’s see how it handles it!

Let me know your thoughts on the JT-350 in the comments.

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:14 Introduction to Jet Guitars and the JT-350
02:20 Specs and features
05:13 Today’s rig and plan

05:54 Clean tone reference chords on all pickup settings
06:16 Clean tone samples (folk, country, pop, indie, blues, funk, etc.)
08:13 Tone control test
09:15 Ambient clean tones + tremolo and plate reverb (Fender Tre-Verb)
10:04 Indie and alt rock tones
12:33 Volume control roll off test
12:54 Classic rock tones (AC/DC, Hendrix, Airbourne, etc.)
14:34 Hard rock tones
15:43 Alternative rock tones
16:06 Punk rock tones
16:58 Progressive rock tones
17:55 Metal/chugging/heavy distortion tones

20:02 My thoughts
21:09 First impressions, looks
22:19 Weight
22:38 Build quality and hardware
23:30 Playability and neck
24:03 Sounds and pickups
27:37 What other similar guitars are out there?
29:18 My conclusions on the JT-350 and why you should buy it

My setup was as follows: I ran the JT-350 into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Greer Lightspeed, Marshall 1959 Super Lead, Friedman BE-OD Deluxe and Revv G3 pedals for overdrive and heavy distortion sounds, plus my Fender Tre-Verb for some extra reverb and tremolo tones. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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