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Are you the proud owner of a custom Turner, Renaissance or Compass Rose instrument?
If so, we'd love to see a photo of your baby.
, along with some personal info (including your web site, if you have one), for consideration in our Owner's Gallery.
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While You're Waiting
We know you want to see more examples of our work, so while we continue to work on our new photo galleries, we thought we'd post a handful of favorites for you to enjoy.
Here's an RS-6 constructed of Southern myrtle with a fade burst finish, abalone purfle, tortoise binding, and fully matched headstock.
An RS-12 nearing completion. This one is of highly-figured, spalted sycamore from the Santa Cruz Mountains, harvested not far from the factory. Abalone purfle with tortoise binding, even on the neck and brazilian rosewood fingerboard, makes for a seriously customized instrument. We don't generally bind Renaissance necks. Fair warning - instruments like these take a LOT of time to build.
An early Jumbo Compass Rose, featuring German spruce top, combined with brazilian rosewood sides and back. Tortoise binding on top, back and headstock, with abalone purfling on the top and headstock. The rosette combines abalone and tortoise to complete the look. On this early design - the auxialliray sound port (the Player's Monitor) is located on the top player's bout. Newer instruments have this feature located just below the waist, and is now an oval shape.
Here's a family photo of four Compass Rose guitars. We're checking our records to make sure, but we believe that three of these beauties went to the same collector.
A quartet of fancy backs, from top to bottom - brazilian rosewood, maple, coco bolo, figured walnut
This special-order lined fretless 6-string bass has a kao body and rosewood bridge. A simple yet elegant treatment.
Here's an RB-4, sporting highly-figured Santa Cruz syacamore, complimented by hemp purfling and black fiber binding
This RS-6B (AKA Barry Sixgun) belongs to our Ambassador-at-Large, Lane Baldwin. The body is highly figured flame maple w/ hemp purfling and tortoise binding. Check out our video on Lane's Smoked Glass Collection to get a better view, and also see the other two instrument's in his collection.
This RS-6 features highly figured sycamore, again from the Santa Cruz Mountains, with tortoise binding and matching headstock.
We saved this one for last, the place of honor, as it belongs to our president, Barry Pearlman. Featuring a spruce top mated to flame maple back and sides with matching headstock. Abalone purfling and tortoise binding compliment both body and headstock.
