Frank Turner

In this post Frank is at the martin hq in nashville. He was there to pick up a new martin acoustic. he says that these are his go to acoustics for tour. Frank states that these are workhorse guitars

"Yeah, it's a Gibson J-45. It's a new guitar, but it's called the Antique Range, which is slightly confusing, but I'm a fully signed-up Gibson endorsee guy these days. They're great.

I mean, my reason for switching to them full time was at least partly influenced by their infrastructure. For instance, I have some really fantastic bespoke guitars that I like — in particular, a guitar that's made by one guy who's a luthier who lives in North Wales, Patrick James Eggle. It's one of the nicest guitars I've ever played in my life, but he's one guy. If I break a guitar in Melbourne, Australia, there's essentially nothing he can do about it.

The other thing about Gibson is that I beat the crap out of my guitars live — like, really. So live, I play a pair of Gibson Hummingbirds. They sound good and they play good and everything, but a big part of it for me is just that I can also throw pretty much anything at them and — touch wood — thus far, they've survived."

frank states that he started using martin guitars. he likes how sturdy they are, and how well they can take a beating. this is important because he notes that he had a history of breaking guitars live

According to Premier Guitar, the orange-burst Gibson Hummingbird is one of his two Gibson Hummingbirds he uses on stage. He wanted a guitar that would be road worthy. Frank likes to move around on stage, and swing his guitar around. Other acoustic guitars he has used would get damaged more frequently.

The electric guitar Turner uses is his Gibson ES-Les Paul in arctic white colour. Frank was sent this guitar by Gibson to use live. He needed a guitar that not only had the tone he liked, but was light enough for his liking. Frank states that he found out the guitar was a prototype doe a line that gibson never ended up releasing. Frank states that he had his guitar tech unwire the neck pickup and the pickup selecter. He did this because he never uses the neck pickup, and would accidentally switch pickups

In the video Frank comes in with the pictured guitar and moves on to the natural finish version. In an interview with Syffal back in 2010 he says "My main guitar is a custom build, made for me by Patrick Eggle, partly built from an English Walnut tree that grew in the valley where I was raised. So it's pretty f*ing special, and it plays and sounds something awesome as well." But in 2014, he made the switch to Gibson Hummingbirds because "if [he] fks up a guitar (reasonably regular occurrence) in, say, New Zealand, Gibson can sort me out overnight, whereas Patrick, with the best will in the world, cannot. It made sense. Hummingbirds are also fucking delightful guitars to play. I still have my original Eggle and treasure it as my favourite."

In an Instagram post, Frank Turner is pictured rehearsing with the Sleeping Souls, playing an Epiphone Hummingbird acoustic guitar. Frank is known for his appreciation of Hummingbird acoustics.

Natural Epiphone Casino used on the "Get Better" tour.

In this interview with Total Guitar, Frank shows his Gibson Country Western. This was one of the acoustics that Frank has in his guitar collection. He moded the guitar slightly to add a fishman undersaddle pickup to the guitar

In this intervies Frank talks about his signature acoustic guitar with Farida Guitars. he used this guitar until switching to a Gibson Hummingbird acoustics

Frank uses a gibson les paul junior for some of the electric guitar songs. He originaly brought it out as a backup. However, it had such a diffrent tone from his other electric that he decided to use it on specific songs rather than just be a backup.

In this post Frank is at the martin hq in nashville. He was there to pick up a new martin acoustic. he says that these are his go to acoustics for tour. Frank states that these are workhorse guitars

In this video Frank is interviewed about his gear. He states that on hid latest record he played alot more electric guitar. He states that for the past 6 or so years he had added more electric guitar into the set. One guitar he uses is a gibson sg junior

Frank states that he has a 1940s martin parlor guitar. He states that this guitar is strictly for home and the studio, and do not come on tour

Frank states that his most “fancy” guitar is a 1940s dangelico arch top