{"id":2742,"date":"2010-12-13T19:12:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T19:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totallyguitars.com\/luthierscorner\/?p=42"},"modified":"2022-06-23T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:53:56","slug":"a-visit-to-ricks-shop-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/luthiers\/rick-turner\/a-visit-to-ricks-shop-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"A Visit To Rick Turner&#8217;s Shop Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Visit To Rick&#039;s Shop Part I\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MZy7dROXt-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><\/div>\n<p>Rick Turner of Renaissance Guitars restored Buddy Holly\u2019s Gibson J45 in 1990. Gary Busey purchased the guitar at auction for about $250,000. The guitar a crack all along the sides and to further complicate the restoration, it was covered in tooled leather \u2013 by Buddy Holly himself. Gary wouldn\u2019t let him remove the leather so he had to fix it from the inside. With the restoration process, he refretted the guitar.Gary gave him the original frets and Rick kept them for 20 years.. Peter Bradley from the UK later purchased the frets. Peter later wanted Rick to make 18 replica GibsonJ45 guitars (for the 18 original frets). Coincidentally, Rick has known John Thomas for years \u2013 John is the world\u2019s expert on 1942 to 1946 Gibsons.. Rick was finishing a book on Banner Era Gibsons and had much material got to Rick.<br \/>\nRick suggested to Peter they form a non-profit to help raise money for music and they envisioned forming the Buddy Holly Guitar Foundation to get the guitars in the hands of prominent and not so prominent guitar players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Turner of Renaissance Guitars restored Buddy Holly\u2019s 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 was covered in tooledleather \u2013 by Buddy Holly himself. Gary wouldn\u2019t let him remove the leather so hehad to fix it from the inside. With the restoration process, he refretted the guitar.Gary gave him the original frets and Rick kept them for 20 years.. Peter Bradley fromthe UK later purchased the frets. Peter later wanted Rick to make 18 replica GibsonJ45 guitars (for the 18 original frets). 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Rick was finishing abook on Banner Era Gibsons and had much material got to Rick.<br \/>\nRick suggested to Peter they form a non-profit to help raise money for music andthey envision forming the Buddy Holly Guitar Foundation to get the guitars in thehands of the prominent and not so prominent guitar players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3459],"tags":[2883,2884],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rick-turner","tag-a-visit-to-ricks-shop","tag-rick-turner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Visit To Rick Turner&#039;s Shop Part I - On The Beat with Totally Guitars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/totallyguitars.com\/blog\/luthiers\/rick-turner\/a-visit-to-ricks-shop-part-i\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Visit To Rick Turner&#039;s Shop Part I - On The Beat with Totally Guitars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rick Turner of Renaissance Guitars restored Buddy Holly\u2019s Gibson J45 in 1990. 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