The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #50043   Message #1269492
Posted By: Eric the Streetsinger
11-Sep-04 - 05:11 PM
Thread Name: Underappreciated luthiers & instruments
Subject: RE: Underappreciated luthiers and instrument
Check out some of Jay Turser's instruments. You have to be careful
because the instruments vary greatly in quality, but if your persistent
you can find some excellent guitars there! I own one, nice thin bodied
acoustic instrument, with no model # attached (guess it was a prototype)
and some unintended varnish on the high frets, which produces some wonderful and unexpected harmonics and chimes when playing notes on the
highest frets. I love to practice on this instrument- the action is excellent, the notes true right up to the top of the cutaway, and with my head tilted over the sound hole, the ghost notes are simply gorgeous-
by the way, Turser's instruments are priced very nicely too- mine cost under a hundred dollars. Sometimes I even prefer it over my 1957 Martin!