"The Turner Guitar"
The Model 1 is the instrument best known as "The Turner
Guitar." Prominently featured in Fleetwood Mac and Lindsey Buckingham videos
and recordings, this is the guitar often mistaken for an acoustic or semi-hollow
instrument. Rick based the ultra cool body shape on an early 19th
century Viennese guitar which may have been built by Johann Stauffer, the man
who taught guitar to Christian Frederick Martin. The MODEL 1-C was first
introduced in 1979, but went out of production in 1981. Rick Turner
Guitars resumed production of this and other models in 1990.
Ed Roman Personal Endorsement
I am completely in awe of the tonality of this instrument.
It is obvious that Rick is using the finest hand picked beautiful Honduras
Mahogany. The resonant quality and playability of this guitar ranks it in
the top 3 guitars I have ever played. Furthermore my customers who have
purchased these fine instruments are my most discriminating and careful
customers. Since Rick came out with the featherweight model and included an
ebony fingerboard, his guitars are probably the best sounding guitars in the
world. I am trying to buy his pickups to offer on my own guitars.
This Guitar is like a Gibson Les Paul on steroids, but you
can still get the delicate Stratocaster tones that only a double octave guitar
with Humbuckers and a built in parametric equalizer will provide.
These Guitars are now available with Flamed & Quilted Maple tops. They are
also now available with Abalone body binding.
Few people are aware that Rick has produced less than 350 of
these instruments in the first 25 years. Obviously because of low
production it isn't easy to get one of these. Contact me if you want one.
Ed Roman,
03/22/96
I said it 12 years ago and I am still believe it
today. What a Guitar !!!
Ed Roman 06/01/08
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Construction and Features of the Model 1 Guitar2005
- Honduras Mahogany body with radiused cylindrical arched top and back.
- Maple Top / Purple Heart neck with Rosewood Fingerboard & Paua Dot
Inlays.
- Black binding on body and fingerboard; peg head veneer overlaid front
and back.
- Single custom Turner rotating humbucking pickup. "Rotatron"
- Nickel plated solid brass tailpiece with hand made black acrylic
battery cover.
- Planet waves tuners and bridge.
- 24 3/4" scale length, 15 frets to body, 24 frets total.
- Neck width: 1 11/16" at nut standard.
- The MODEL 1 is available with three styles of electronics.
- The MODEL 2 is a MODEL 1 guitar with a second pickup added at the neck.
(Not recommended by Ed Roman it's overkill)
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