Boy I'd love to have one of these someday....

[Lewguitar]

Doesn't have the fingerboard extension on the treble side that I'm used to seeing on a Model T. I'm going to ask Rick about it. I wonder if it's a real Turner?

So that's a Hipshot tailpiece probably installed by Turner Guitars for the original owner. Looks to be the real deal!

[Lewguitar]

Just got a reply from from Rick Turner and he says it's real! And an old one! He got a kick out of seeing it again.

[jeremy]

That's a helluva lotta controls for a 1-pup guitar! What in the world do they all do?

volume and tone, piezo volume, and active mid eq

[ArtieToo]

volume and tone, piezo volume, and active mid eq

Ah. I missed the piezo part. Still, a lot of controls.

[Lewguitar]

volume and tone, piezo volume, and active mid eq

Yep. The EQ has two controls. One selects the frequency you want to boost. The other is the degree of boost. The mini switch turns the EQ on or off and a little red LED lights up when its on. Very cool for going from clean chord tones to a boosted sound for solos.

The piezo blend is the knob up on top where the pickup selector switch would be on a Les Paul.

Turning it all the way "up" is humbucker only. All the way "down" is piezo only.

Any setting in-between blends them together.

Adding piezo to the humbucker makes it start sounding like a bridge pickup because the piezo is in the bridge.

Also adds breath and more of an acoustic tone.

It has a lot of range and works beautifully!

Personally, I think they're the most versatile guitar I've ever played.

[Lewguitar]

Here's what the Turner Renaissance Steel String guitar usually looks like with "normal" wood. These are what you normally see:

[ArtieToo]

Nice. Is the one on the left much smaller? Or is it just the angle. (P.S. The reflection on the left, makes it look like you spilled white paint on it.)

[Lewguitar]

Nice. Is the one on the left much smaller? Or is it just the angle. (P.S. The reflection on the left, makes it look like you spilled white paint on it.)

It's the just the angle. If you're on Facebook there's a Rick Turner Guitar Owner's page that I subscribe to. That's where most of the info and photos I posted came from in this thread. And Rick might be the moderator because he usually answers questions when asked.