Tag: A Visit To Rick’s Shop

Rick Turner has built many guitars for famous musicians. He shows the third model one guitar that he designed for Lindsey Buckingham best known for Fleetwood Mac.This guitar is owned by Lindsay and has suffered ...

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 ...