RICK TURNER | Icon of American Guitar Making – Part 4
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Loading ...Posted on: September 10, 2009
Posted in: Acoustic Expert, Acoustic Luthier, Custom Acoustic Guitar, Custom Electric Guitar, Custom Guitar Music, Custom Guitar Video, Electric Expert, Electric Luthier
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Turner’s designs are considered significant and innovative. He invented and patented the graphite neck in 1976, with Geoff Gould who then started Modulus Graphite. He used curved plates on the front and back of his Model 1 electric guitars in order to reduce standing wave hysteresis loss. He uses 18v preamps in an attempt to tame the ‘quack’ sound commonly associated with piezoelectric acoustic guitar pickups.
Watch his custom guitar video as he talks about being one of the sound pioneers of the Grateful Dead. His Model 1 custom electric guitar has written rock and pop history by being the main guitar of Lindsay Buckingham, who turned it into one of the cornerstones of the Fleetwood Mac sound. He has also worked very successfully as manager of the R&D department of the Gibson guitar company. He designed the Chet Atkins model and was part of the revival of the Les Paul with Slash of Guns&Roses in the 1990’s. Watch a part of Rock’n Roll history and enjoy Rick, Henry Kaiser, Richard Glick and Bill Walker. Learn about the influence of Howe-Orme guitars and Space-Age technology like graphite braces and ceramic frets in guitar making.
Gourmet Guitars’ featured one of the most famous master luthiers and “inventors” in American Guitar History, Rick Turner. Based in Santa Cruz, CA, Rick has built guitars for some of the most successful guitarists of all time.
