Rick Turner discusses his upbringing and how he was ‘handy’ from an early age. Hisfather was an artist and his mother started as a fashion designer. He grew up in atown where boat yards were ...
Rick Turner talks about how he got started building guitars. Guitar music was apart of his youth. His father, an artist, listened to performers such as Andre Segoviato Garbor Szabo to Leadbelly to the Kingston ...
Rick Turner of Renaissance Guitars further discusses the Buddy Holly Foundation.He shows us the 18 frets he removed during a refret in 1990 of the 1943 GibsonJ45 guitar (it’s second year of manufacture). One fret ...
Rick Turner of Renaissance Guitars restored Buddy Holly’s Gibson J45 in 1990. GaryBusey purchased the guitar at auction for about $250,000. The guitar a crack allalong the sides and to further complicate the restoration, it ...
Keith shows us how frets are formed to fit into the neck of the guitar and how he works with them on a Jackson V-style electric guitar.
In this video we meet with Tom at the Guitar Hospital as he gives a demonstration of how they level frets, as well as how you might know that you need this type of maintenance on your ...
Hi, I'm Keith Holland from the Guitar Hospital in Los Gatos, California. We're discussing tone on an acoustic guitar right now. We've talked about the tuners, how that can affect tone. I'd like to spend ...
Keith covers some of the range of tuning gears employed. He also covers the change in tone that different weight tuners will cause.
String gauge is very important to the tone. Keith discusses string gauges and materials and also covers some of the reasons strings break.
Keith tunes up the strings using a clip-on tuner. A close up of the tuner shows how easy it is to use.