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!!

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.

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.

I purchased the Jeff Beck Signature stratocaster back in 2005 after I saw Jeff Beck up close at a concert with BB King. I was amazed at how well the guitar stayed in tune with the enormous whammy bar abuse he put it through. He only swapped out the guitar once during his show.

This guitar felt wonderful, solid, well balanced, great neck, quality throughout. I will never forgive myself because I tend to be a bit timid in a music store when I'm trying instruments out. I've been performing on stage for the last 30+ years and I still meek out in a music store. So I didn't give the tremolo a thorough workover. I own another strat with a floyd rose... I'm a big fan of the floyd rose, but only because it takes ENORMOUS abuse and stays faithfully in tune. Other than that, it's a high maintenance boat anchor. The Jeff Beck tremolo was a complete disappointment. For anyone whose style incorporates the relentless whammy bar abuse of a Hendrix, Beck, Vai, etc... you will be extremely disappointed at the failures of this tremolo to stay in tune.

The sound of this guitar is wonderful. The pickups are noiseless at high gain - I play it through a Mesa Boogie. However, the pickups don't have anymore power than any stock strat. I was also hoping the bridge pickup would be warm and robust like Jeff's sound or at least like the Seymour Duncan JB pickups... but it's just like any other thin sounding Fender bridge pickup. So no JB presence here. The volume pots are smooth and the rosewood neck adds a nice fatness to the clean rhythms. But I wish the pickups were more robust with more output.

I like the action very low... I actually like the strings underneath the frets - that's how low I like it. Perhaps because the tremolo is set up to float - which I like - but my guitar tech can't seem to get the action as low as I like it. The action is still nice... I'm sure super to most guitarists... but for me, I would like to be able to set it lower. The tremolo takes a little getting used to as it is very sensitive to the touch - which I really like - and the whammy bar sits up high and angles up... which I thought was awkward at first, but ended up loving it. It easily clears the volume knob when dive bombing and feels very natural for pull-ups or subtle nuance voicings.

This guitar is TOTALLY USELESS for what I bought it for - which was to have an excellent sounding guitar with a quality tremolo that would stay in tune. I could have bought any other strat or decent guitar for a fraction of the price and had a whammyless backup guitar which is what this has become. The tremolo is a constant fused part of my playing style and I've found just using the tremolo in one song puts the guitar so out of tune I want to just chuck it across the stage. So I use my reliable old beat up floyd rose strat... and it's the Jeff Beck strat that has become the boat anchor... what a waste.

Fender - like the Jeff Beck strat tremolo - is even more useless. I've tried to contact them, so has my guitar tech and the store I purchased it from... total non-response.

I am giving this guitar a low overall rating because of the tremolo. I assume one would buy a Jeff Beck strat mainly because of the tremolo as there are so many other expensive signature strats out there that you can buy where the tremolo is not the key signature of that artist. Now maybe I just purchased a lemon that Fender won't own up to... who knows. I've taken it to a couple other respected guitar techs just for a 2nd and 3rd opinion... and they both said this is as good as it gets... at least for this guitar.