Turner Guitars vs. Gibson Les Paul Guitars

Turner Guitars vs. Gibson Les Paul Guitars

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This Guitar Eats The Gibson Alive !!!!!!

 

Gibson Les Paul  Turner Model One
Production Model Hand Made Guitar
Set Neck Set Neck
One Piece Neck 5 Piece Neck
Traditional Flat Back, Archtop Complex Curve Body
22 Frets Scale & Pickup   24 Frets
Plastic Nut Bone Nut
Large Heel Smaller Heel & Higher Reach
Spring Loaded Pickups Rotator Pickup
Passive Electronics Active Electronics 18 Volt
Stock Gibson Pickups Stock Turner Rotatron
No Preamp On board custom Preamp 18 Volts
Kluson Tuners Imported Planet Waves Custom Tuners
Maple Top Mahogany Body Your Choice of 36 Different Woods
Tune-A-matic Bridge Roll-A-Matic Bridge
No Piezo System Custom Turner 3rd Gen system
Not Available Not Available
Non Tremolo Non Tremolo (Custom Only)
Mahogany Neck 5 Piece Neck (Wood Choices)
Fingerboard Rosewood Fingerboard Ebony, Maple Exotics
Plastic Pickguard No Pickguard
Body Binding Body Binding
Neck Binding Neck Binding
No Headstock Binding Headstock Binding 
No Volute   (This Will Break) 8 Ply Headstock Lam (won't break)  
Plastic Inlays Optional Inlays
Limited Color Options Unlimited Color Options
1 Neck Profile 7 Neck Profiles
1 Size Frets Your Choice Any Size Frets 
Not Available Stainless Steel Frets
Not Available Gold Titanium Alloy Frets
Nickel Silver Alloy Frets Nickel Silver Alloy Frets

 

Making A Better Version Of The Turner Guitar Would Be Very Hard To Do.

1, You would have to eliminate the heel completely and make and make it a neck thru body.
2, You would have to figure a way to hardmount (Direct Couple) the pickup.
3, I believe two hard-mounted splittable pickups would be an improvement over a single spring loaded one.
4, The Rollamatic Bridge is not as Stable as a Tone Pros Tune A Matic bridge.
5, Thinning it down would be experimental because we don't want to take any chances on losing tone.
6, Normally I say that Nitrocellulose on an electric is probably unnecessary. But on this guitar Nitrocellulose or an oil finish would probably be only a small improvement.

 

 

 

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