Did I ever show you guys my Rick Turner Model 1?

[Lewguitar]

It's an amazing guitar. Mine is a "Lightweight" so it's chambered.

Lindsey Buckingham made the Model 1 famous. John Mayer plays one too.

Has a piezo in the bridge for acoustic tones and the humbucker rotates to accentuate the lows or the highs.

Has an active parametric eq too. You might think not having a bridge humbucker would be limiting but it's not. Dialing in a little piezo into the neck pickup and using the parametric eq gives stunning British Blues tones that you'd swear are coming from a bridge humbucker.

It's the most versatile guitar I've ever owned.

 

[Mincer]

Wow, very cool!
I've never even seen one in person, much less played one. But it looks pretty awesome!

 

[Lewguitar]

Wow, very cool!
I've never even seen one in person, much less played one. But it looks pretty awesome!

I traded my 2004 Toyota 4-Runner for it and gave it to myself for a Christmas present a couple of years ago.

 

[ehdwuld]

What's the neck shape like

An acoustic?

Electric?

Wide or narrow at the nut

 

[jeremy]

is that your guitar or stock photos? just wondering due to the way its shot. rick makes good stuff alright! im very happy with my model t, but its a much different guitar than the model 1. been lucky to play a handful of those as well though and once you get to know your way around the electronics, they are amazingly versatile. such a great piezo preamp too!

 

[Lewguitar]

That’s my guitar Jeremy. The guy I got it from took some professional photos of it and I saved them. I’ve had it a couple of years.

The neck shape? Hard to describe. Not fat or overly thick. Nut width about 1 11/16”. It’s probably the most perfect feeling neck of any guitar I own. Round. Not V shaped or unusual. Just very comfortable.

Mine is light. It’s chambered whereas the one Lindsey Buckingham plays is solid.

I had a clean Toyota 4 Runner from Florida with about 170,000 miles on it. But it was not a 4 wheel drive and It was not good in the snow.

So I traded it for this guitar a couple of years ago and bought an all wheel drive Nissan.

 

[Mincer]

about how heavy is yours?

 

[Artie]

I love those and Jeremy's Model T. But they are expensive. We have one of the Fleetwood Mac DVD's, and the only two songs I listen to are Lindsey Buckingham's two solos with that guitar. He do make it sound good.

 

[Lewguitar]

about how heavy is yours?

Light. Like a light Tele. Much lighter than a Les Paul.

 

[Lewguitar]

I love those and Jeremy's Model T. But they are expensive. We have one of the Fleetwood Mac DVD's, and the only two songs I listen to are Lindsey Buckingham's two solos with that guitar. He do make it sound good.

I use a pick mostly but I do play fingerstyle and I’m a pretty good finger picker from playing a lot of acoustic guitar. These guitars are great for guys like Buckingham who are as much acoustic players as they are electric players. I love combining the piezo in the bridge with the neck humbucker and that knob up top where the pickup selector switch would be on a Les Paul is the blend control. All the way “up” is the humbucker. All the way “down” is the bridge piezo. You can do a lot blending the two pickups. Blending in the piezo adds both treble and some air or breath to the tone. It’s unlike any piezo I’ve ever used.

 

[muttznmongrelz]

Very cool guitars and yours is a beauty!

 

[Lewguitar]

Very cool guitars and yours is a beauty!

Thank you! There's no way I could have justified buying it. But trading for it? Sure!

These are the finest electric guitars I've ever owned. The attention to detail and even the way the heel of the neck is sculpted makes it a work of art.

Whereas my Toyota 4 Runner is probably worth less today than it was two years ago, I would think these guitars will go up in value.

Rick Turner used to do some work with Seymour Duncan back in the day. Duncan-Turner Acoustic Research I think it was called.

His DTAR line of preamps, eq's and the Mama Bear acoustic emulator predated the Fishman Aura. You could plug an Acoustic guitar with a piezo pickup into a Mama Bear and what came out sounded like an acoustic guitar through a studio microphone.

Guys like David Lindley still perforn with their DTAR acoustic instrument preamps and eqs.

I have some of that stuff too. Not the Mama Bear tho.

 

[jeremy]

i really wish i had grabbed some dtar stuff when it was readily available but oh well

 

[GuitarStv]

It's very pretty. Weird that it's 24 fret . . . it looks like the upper fret access pretty much craps out around 19 or 20?

 

[muttznmongrelz]

Thank you! There's no way I could have justified buying it. But trading for it? Sure!

These are the finest electric guitars I've ever owned. The attention to detail and even the way the heel of the neck is sculpted makes it a work of art.

Whereas my Toyota 4 Runner is probably worth less today than it was two years ago, I would think these guitars will go up in value.

Rick Turner used to do some work with Seymour Duncan back in the day. Duncan-Turner Acoustic Research I think it was called.

His DTAR line of preamps, eq's and the Mama Bear acoustic emulator predated the Fishman Aura. You could plug an Acoustic guitar with a piezo pickup into a Mama Bear and what came out sounded like an acoustic guitar through a studio microphone.

Guys like David Lindley still perforn with their DTAR acoustic instrument preamps and eqs.

I have some of that stuff too. Not the Mama Bear tho.

LOL - you sound like me on the justification thing. I've only seen and laid hands on one; turned up in a Music Go Round a few years ago and it was a high quality unique and wonderful guitar. Definitely had it's own personality per se. Price reflected it too.

I've heard/read of the DTAR and Mama Bear. Sounds like it was cutting edge stuff and if David Lindley is using it the gear it must be rock solid.

 

[Lewguitar]

LOL - you sound like me on the justification thing. I've only seen and laid hands on one; turned up in a Music Go Round a few years ago and it was a high quality unique and wonderful guitar. Definitely had it's own personality per se. Price reflected it too.

I've heard/read of the DTAR and Mama Bear. Sounds like it was cutting edge stuff and if David Lindley is using it the gear it must be rock solid.

I'd been curious about them for many, many years. I couldn't imagine how I could get by without a bridge humbucker though.

Very easily as it turns out!

Once you get into the Model 1, you learn to get sounds that aren't exactly like a bridge humbucker but getting Santana-esque and Clapton Cream tones that are in the same ball park and in some ways better than what you've gotten with a bridge humbucker make up for it.

The onboard parametric eq is voiced beautifully so you can dial in what frequency you want the pickup to boost or cut. Usually boost.

And then it does have an ectual "boost" as well so you can really get some ripping soloing tones.

The clean tones are equally spectacular. Jazzy, folksy...whatever you want really. Blending the bridge piezo into the humbucker gives an airy quality to the humbucker and blending the humbucking into the piezo has a nice affect on the "acoustic" tones.

I joked with Rick that all it needed was a built in Klon! He got a kick out of that.

 

[Wound_Up]

Nice guitar, sir. That's a heck of a coincidence. Texas Toast Guitars on YouTube is building a guitar inspired by these. They started about a week or 10 days ago, I believe.

 

[Lewguitar]

Nice guitar, sir. That's a heck of a coincidence. Texas Toast Guitars on YouTube is building a guitar inspired by these. They started about a week or 10 days ago, I believe.

I've seen that and a subsequent video where they fitted the neck. It's not an out and out copy. For one thing they didn't do a scarf joint for the peghead like the Turner has. They went one piece.

 

[Wound_Up]

I've seen that and a subsequent video where they fitted the neck. It's not an out and out copy. For one thing they didn't do a scarf joint for the peghead like the Turner has. They went one piece.

Yea that's why I mentioned it was "inspired by" the Model 1. It's similar with a few small differences.

 

[Artie]

i really wish i had grabbed some dtar stuff when it was readily available but oh well

I really wish they'd bring back that Solstice preamp. But make it a 1U rack unit to make it more modern. The original case made it look like a 60's gas station air-dispenser. But other than aesthetics, it was the perfect guitar preamp. Can't understand why they quit making it.