Simviation Forum - Anyone like unusual guitars?

Jan 16^th, 2010 at 6:07pm

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After a 29 year wait, I was finally able to afford the one guitar I said I was going to have before I died. No way was I going without having one of these.

This is a hand-built Turner Model 1 guitar made by Rick himself in a small California shop. Less than three hundred have been built to date. This guitar was made famous by it's very first customer, Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac.

The design is unique not only in the plan view of the body, but by it's 25" cylindrical radius of the top and bottom of the body that eleminates standing waves within the body. It's the loudest guitar I've ever heard unplugged. You can feel it vibrating against your belly when you play it.

This is a two piece (top/bottom) slab of the finest Honduran mahogany with a five piece neck and five piece headstock.

The pickup is a hand-wound Turner Rototron mounted to a black acrylic disc that allows the pickup to rotate to change the relationship of the strings to the pole pieces. It has an 18v on-board pre-amp and a parametric EQ along with a regular tone knob and volume control.

This is the best playing and best sounding guitar I've had the pleasure of playing. Now I can die happy. Grin

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Reply #1 - Jan 16^th, 2010 at 6:08pm

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Reply #4 - Jan 16^th, 2010 at 6:18pm

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Lovely!

Though I must say, I'm more fond of your Les Paul in the background... (I'm a bit of a LP fan! Grin

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Reply #5 - Jan 16^th, 2010 at 7:12pm

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Very nice.

The best sounding I ever heard was the prototype for

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built by a friend of mine before he got his business off the ground. It is something.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #6 - Jan 16^th, 2010 at 11:39pm

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Those are very nice. I wish I'd known about him a few years ago when I was in KC.

I'm pretty fond of my Turner though.

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Reply #7 - Jan 17^th, 2010 at 1:27am

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BSW727 wrote on Jan 16^th, 2010 at 11:39pm:

Those are very nice. I wish I'd known about him a few years ago when I was in KC.

I'm pretty fond of my Turner though.

I'd be fond of it too, if I had one.
It would not have done you any good, he was not in KC a few years ago. He was in Branson and had not started manufacturing yet, let alone sales. That's where I met him. He and his wife ran a very nice bed and breakfast, and we hit it off. I got to play the prototype and was really amazed. I dream of the day when I might be able to afford one of his guitars. And the Turner would be a nice addition also.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #8 - Jan 22^nd, 2010 at 11:28am

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Wimin leave ya, pets die on ya, bosses fire ya, but ya get a good geetar and it'll love ya forever.

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Reply #9 - Jan 22^nd, 2010 at 11:40am

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OK the picts finally loaded.

VERY NICE! As a self customizer, I'd say it really looks good. I particularly like the neck back and headstock front and back. Overall design is excellent.

The only thing I would change, for my own picky and personal tastes, is to go with an ebony fretboard with markers to the playing side of the fretboard instead of the dots, and ebony tuning knobs.

If it's loud unplugged, that'd be great for quick informal practice.

Unfortunately, I don't play guitar anymore, been working on Bach on keyboards. But I'm impressed with it; different, and maybe good for jazz as well.

Well, maybe someday.

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Reply #10 - Jan 23^rd, 2010 at 7:22am

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Ebony could be ordered but I chose to stay with the rosewood to go with the mahogany.

It is VERY loud unplugged. Loudest electric guitar I've ever heard without an amp. You could just about stick a 441 up to it and play it as an acoustic.

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Reply #11 - Feb 1^st, 2010 at 8:01am