Jet JT-350-SB-R Electric Guitar – Sunburst – Rosewood Fretboard

The JET JT-350 (SKU: JT-350-SB-R) is a Tele-style electric guitar built around a specification that punches well above its price: alnico pickups across the board, a push-pull coil-split on the humbucker, a bone nut, chrome locking machine heads, a Wilkinson fixed bridge, and a Canadian Roasted Maple neck paired with a rosewood fingerboard. The result is a guitar that covers classic Tele snap and twang at one end of the dial and — with the humbucker in full mode — delivers the warmth and thickness to handle blues, indie, and contemporary rock. The Sunburst finish with rosewood board gives the JT-350 a distinctly vintage-influenced look that suits the alnico-driven character of the instrument.

Alnico Pickups — Why the Magnet Material Matters

Every electric guitar pickup generates its signal the same way: a magnetic field interacts with the vibrating steel strings, and that movement is converted to voltage. The magnet type — the material from which the pickup's magnets are made — has a direct influence on the character of the signal produced.

Ceramic magnets have a stronger, more uniform magnetic field. The result is higher output and a brighter, harder-edged tone that sits well in dense mixes and handles high gain without muddying. This makes ceramic pickups a practical choice for certain styles and a cost-effective solution in budget instruments.

Alnico magnets — an alloy of aluminium, nickel, and cobalt — produce a softer, more complex magnetic field. The tone that results tends to be warmer and more dynamically responsive: when you dig in with the pick, the output increases; when you lighten your touch or roll back the guitar's volume knob, it cleans up naturally without losing its character. This dynamic responsiveness is one of the qualities most associated with the "vintage" sound — the kind of playing feel that rewards expressive dynamics rather than sustaining a fixed tone at high volume.

The JT-350 uses alnico pickups for both its single-coil and its humbucker. At this price, that is not a given — and it is audible.

Single-Coil and Coil-Split Humbucker — Tonal Range

The JT-350 combines a Tele-style alnico single-coil with an alnico humbucker fitted with a push-pull coil-split. This configuration gives the guitar three meaningfully different voices.

Single-coil only — the Tele-style alnico single-coil delivers the bright, percussive snap that defines the Telecaster character. Attack is clear and immediate, with a chime in the upper midrange and clean definition on picked notes. It is the sound behind a century of country, funk, indie, and roots rock — and with the JT-350's alnico magnet, it has the warmth and bloom that makes clean playing particularly musical.

Humbucker (full) — the alnico humbucker provides thickness, warmth, and noise-free output. Two coils wound in opposite polarity cancel each other's hum while combining their output. The result is a fuller, rounder tone with more low-midrange body — suited to blues leads, rock rhythms, jazz voicings, and anything that benefits from warmth and weight rather than snap and brightness.

Humbucker (coil-split) — pressing and pulling the tone knob activates the coil-split, disabling one coil of the humbucker and running the remaining coil as a single-coil. The tone shifts — thinner, brighter, with some hum returning — but the character changes enough to produce a genuinely different voice. The three-position blade switch then controls which pickup or combination is active.

Canadian Roasted Maple Neck

The JT-350's neck is Canadian Roasted Maple — the same roasted neck material used in JET's JT-300 series. Roasting (also called torrefaction) subjects the wood to sustained high heat in a controlled, low-oxygen environment. This drives off residual moisture and volatiles from the wood fibres, producing a material that is dimensionally more stable than standard maple — it is less reactive to changes in humidity and temperature, which means the neck's geometry changes less as conditions shift — and gives the wood a distinctive amber-to-caramel colour without the use of stains or dyes.

The Modern C profile is a medium-depth, slightly oval shape that suits a wide range of playing styles — not so flat it feels thin, not so round it feels bulky. Scale length is 25.5 inches, a standard that produces a taut, clear string feel with good definition across the full range.

Rosewood Fingerboard

The JT-350-SB-R's fingerboard is rosewood — a traditional fingerboard material with a warmer, slightly darker sonic character than maple, and a smooth, slightly oiled playing surface that many players find easier on the fingertips during extended playing. The 9.5-inch radius is a comfortable middle ground: enough curve to make cowboy chords feel natural and supported, flat enough that string bending in the upper positions does not produce unwanted fretting out.

Rosewood fingerboards have no finish — the wood is left natural and treated with oil. The surface ages with playing, developing a character of its own over time. For players who have played maple-board guitars and found them bright or grippy, rosewood often feels like a natural step.

Bone Nut

The nut is a small but acoustically significant component: it is one of two contact points (along with the saddles) at which the string's vibrating length begins and ends. Material quality directly affects how well the string's energy is transferred to the instrument and how cleanly each string seats in its slot.

The JT-350 uses a bone nut. Bone is a dense, hard organic material that has been used in quality instrument building for generations. Its hardness produces precise string seating — each string sits in a well-cut slot that supports the string without excess play — and its density transfers the string's vibration efficiently into the neck. The result is clear tone even at the nut, particularly on open strings, and stable intonation where the string breaks over the nut. Bone nuts are hand-finished to the nut slot dimensions, which is additional labour that mass-market instruments often bypass with moulded synthetic alternatives.

Wilkinson Fixed Bridge

The Wilkinson name is associated with hardware quality above the generic level — the company has produced aftermarket and OEM hardware components for quality guitar builds since the 1980s. The Wilkinson fixed bridge on the JT-350 provides solid string anchoring at the saddles and at the body, with individual saddle adjustment for intonation and height.

A fixed bridge — as opposed to a tremolo bridge — keeps the strings at constant tension when no pressure is applied. There is no spring system in the body to set up and maintain, no floating action to manage, and no tendency for the whole guitar to go out of tune when one string breaks or is bent aggressively. For players who do not use tremolo technique, a quality fixed bridge is simply the superior choice for tuning stability and tone.

Chrome Locking Machine Heads

Locking machine heads grip the string at the post, preventing the common source of tuning instability — string slipping at the tuner. With a conventional tuner, the string is wrapped multiple times around the post; the wraps can loosen or shift, particularly under repeated bending or aggressive playing. Locking tuners clamp the string at the post so the winding is secured mechanically, not just by tension. String changes also become faster: feed the string through, lock it, tune up, done — no multiple wraps required.

Sunburst Finish

Sunburst is one of electric guitar's classic finish types — a dark-edged burst that transitions from a darker outer colour (typically brown, black, or cherry) to a lighter or natural tone at the centre. On the JT-350, the Sunburst finish has a distinctly vintage visual character that complements the rosewood fingerboard, the chrome hardware, and the alnico pickup set. The combination of Sunburst finish, roasted maple neck, and rosewood board positions the JT-350 visually and tonally in a vintage-influenced territory.

Who Is the JT-350 For?

The JT-350 suits players who want genuine tonal versatility from a Tele-style guitar without spending boutique prices. The alnico pickups deliver the vintage warmth and dynamic response that ceramic-equipped alternatives cannot replicate at this price. The coil-split means the guitar covers more ground than a fixed two-pickup layout — single-coil snap, coil-split brightness, and full humbucker warmth are all available from the same instrument. The roasted maple neck, bone nut, locking tuners, and Wilkinson bridge are specification points that are typically found on more expensive guitars. Styles best served: country, blues, indie, classic rock, roots, and any playing that rewards dynamic expressiveness and clean tonal character.

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