The Artist Guitars STH Strat - Best Cheap Guitar on the Market?

This is the best sub $200/$99 USD (on sale) electric guitar I have tried in a long time from Artist Guitars. This is the Artist STH (L) Electric Guitar based on a Stratocaster.
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This is the Artist STH (L) electric guitar and it's loaded with two single-coil pickups from Wilkinson and a Humbucker pickup in the bridge.

Artist guitars are very similar in quality to guitars like Harley Benton and the Yamaha Pacifica line. This Strat-Style guitar is good enough for intermediate players to enjoy while being great for beginners. This might be the best electric guitar for $189 AUD (see links above for local areas).

0:00 - Jam Track
4:15 - Guitar Overview
6:21 - Disclosure
6:41 - Clean Tones
9:20 - Dirty Tones (and tone controls)
13:00 - Final Thoughts

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[jodavis]

As a fellow lefty I love your guitar reviews. Things have gotten so much better for us over the past several years, we almost have a selection to choose from now.

[gregoryrussell]

I think you are doing a great service to new players( especially young ones and their parents) by showing you can get inexpensive equipment that sounds good and is reliable

[zd]

I recently bought one of these at half price because it was a customer return with a supposed wiring issue. I only wanted it to harvest the body to use with some parts I have. It arrived working perfectly. I've had the same experience Shane has had - Perfect fretwork, stays in tune. Can't fault it. I'm gonna keep looking for a Strat body for my other project. Would be a waste to pull this one apart.

[marktanner]

Been an Artist guitars customer for many years now.
Apart from the great instruments, their customer service is fantastic, if there's something wrong, they make it right.
Free Shipping is a big bonus, and now they have UK and US warehouses I have already sent Grungemasters to 2 friends (one UK and one US) as presents and both are rapt (wanted them to experience some P90 love 😉)
I bought my son their Strat kit for christmas so I can teach him setup, maintenance and some finishing skills without fear of messing up one of his (or my) more expensive guitars and was so impressed I bought another last week to do some experimental finish work.
Great review mate
take care
👍✌😎

[intheblues]

Thanks for watching. It's great to see some more affordable guitars out there that play and sound great. Let me know if you've tried these before. Links, timestamps, and details are located in the description. 😎 The lefty is $10 more for some reason. 🤣Check it out online:
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[avjake]

Spotlighting great buys for starting lefty players is what makes your channel so great. Awesome job.

[jeffroq]

Great demo Shane looks great. Sounds even better. We can get Artist in the UK but everything is out of stock at the moment. It's listed as £99 with a bunch of accessories which is crazy . Kids getting in to guitar today are so fortunate compared to what was available back when I was starting out in the 70s.

[thattassiewargamer]

Thanks Shane, at 49 years old I’ve been looking for my first guitar and have just ordered an STHL (I’m a lefty too) directly from Artist after watching your review. I can’t wait.

[dragan]

Very nice guitar! Love the neck and the headstock! Nice tones with killer bridge sound! You know it's a keeper when Shane smiles while playing it!

[DoubleDguitar]

Wow, Shane. That intro jam was so killer.

[DMSProduktions]

GREAT Stratalike Shane! That rear hum bucker really CUTS!

[Ardyrobeats]

Appriciate the review mate, been riffing on a right handed guitar and it sucks, I finally can get a nice affordable lefty. Cheers

[bengibson]

Great review Shane. A couple years ago I bought a righty version of this exact guitar for my son to learn on. I had a go on it and I couldn’t put it down. I’ve got some fairly premium (including “Prestige”) gear to use as reference and this little cheapie stands up to scrutiny. I got another STH for myself. Same story-well-made and finished with a wide selection of tones, good pickups, nicely- finished frets, easily setup with low action/no buzzing, and the neck shape is a nice, slim 1960’s ish profile. I’ve still got both of them and they get used regularly. Since then I’ve got the vintage white ST62 and the new one with the HSS/nickel humbucker cover/2 point trem and roasted maple neck. They would be Great guitars at twice the price, and represent unbelievable value.

[kate.sessionsivelive]

You're so good playing that instrument. Many more people to inspire and keep going in life. God Bless you.

[dougharbrow]

Great review, Shane. I bought one of these and am staggered at the sound quality and how well the guitar is made. I cannot fault it.
Doug (another leftie)

[DennisAlvarezMusic]

Hi Shane! SWEET guitar! I purchased a Squier 60's C.V. Strat in 2014. Had I known about Harley Benton and Artist at the time, I might have gone in that direction. But I love my Squier. People still walk up at my gigs and can't believe that it's a Squier.

[freewheeler]

I have two Artist guitars now: the BCHY which is a Gibson 355 copy ('cept better) and the Telecaster with dual bullbuckers, which is like a early fifties Blackguard Tele ('cept better). They are both *astonishingly* good guitars: high quality, perfect attention to finish, the best harmonics and intonation I've ever experienced on any guitar. Sound, looks, playability - all excellent. And so inexpensive!

[joolz]

Bought the exact same Artist guitar (right-handed model) about three months ago. Super pleased with it - stays in tune, easy to play even with tiny hands, not too heavy, a variety of tones. Admittedly, mine doesn't sound as good as yours, but I suspect that's to do with my lousy playing. :-)

[wfm]

Not usually a black guitar fan but that looks sweet with the dark fretboard. Great intro your bends sounded fantastic.

[brettmalone]

What a great channel.
One of the very few I'm subscribed to 👍👍👍