Fender Artist Series Jeff Beck Stratocaster Electric Guitar  

Isn't funny how they picture Jeff Beck playing a guitar that is not even close to the model they are portraying as the JB model.... Buy this if you are like me and love JB... don't buy it if you want a guitar like JB really plays.....

I bought the light green Beck strat two weeks ago and I can't set it down. I am having a great time watching Beck videos on my computor and practicing playing with no pick. after the guitar I went right out and purchased a pair of black and tan Fender Deluxe tube amps and a Line 6 Pod xt Pro to have a left and right channel sound. This guitar sounds as close to beck's sound as I think money can buy for the price. It's a very smooth and full sounding strat even with the bass on the amp rolled all the way off like he plays. If you use the bridge and middle pick-up selection and drop the tone down on the bridge pick-up a few numbers it really has that human voice sound you hear so often in Jeff's music. Your sound starts in your fingers and the way you handle the guitar. This guitar can make any sound you can think of if you spend the time to work at building it, it is very responsive to the players touch and style. More so than other strats I have. It is very expensive but will increase in value as time goes by. For me it was a good purchase. I think you'll agree if you buy one.

Owned since 2004 and this axe gets better with age. My #1 choice for play-ability and tone. Neck size just right and stays in tune. The locking tuners make string changes easy. Wails through my Line 6 Vetta II. Only wish they made it with a maple fingerboard. Oh well, it's still a first rate strat!!

The trem kicks it once you learn how to set it up properly to be well balanced. Pull the whammy all the way up and adjust so it is a perfect F#. I learned this from reading an article that quoted Jeff explaining his set up. Before I did this I was disappointed in the guitar. after I set it up it sounded perfect and held a perfect tune after much use.(Just because yo use it doesn't mean use no finesse to achieve heart stopping sounds) The pickups are totally different from a stock strat. The bridge is sizzling but can be warmed up with the tone knob unlike a stock strat .Learn how to use the altered tone knobs and you will master the tones. I own a G&L with a JB Junior, and the strat is much more post 1999 Jeff.

Now THIS is the strat I?ve been waiting for.  I?ve looked at many with various features, but this has the ones I need- namely the locking tuners, LSR nut, two-point modern trem and high (but not too high) output pickups.  The icing on the cake in the JB Strat neck.  It is wonderfully thicker than the American standard or Deluxe models, without going to the extremes of the previous Beck model (e.g.- baseball bat).  The pickups are really nice and give a variety of both vintage and modern tones.  A word of warning- there are better strats out there if you only dabble in the vintage side.  But if you?re looking for versatility this can?t be beat.  I ran mine through a variety of pedals, running the gamut of distortions (Boss SD-1, Boss SD-2 on Lead channel, and Line 6 Uber-metal) and it handled them all.  And the clean tones were there as well.  If you want a strat to do only one thing you may find another that suits you better.  But it gets my vote for the strat that can do it all.   Of course, with a Fender Artist model, the neck is what you?re paying the extra $ for- And guess what?  In this case it?s worth it.