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.

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.

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