Warwick Lancelot Armstrong "Rick" Turner III, (July 30, 1943 – April 17, 2022) was an American builder of guitars and basses, ukuleles, and other stringed instruments. As a guitar builder, Turner created instruments for rock musicians including Lindsey Buckingham, John Entwistle, and Jesse Colin Young.
Career
Turner grew up from the age of eight in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He started helping to make and repair musical instruments when young, and was given his first guitar at the age of 11. He attended boarding school in Rhode Island before starting at Boston University in 1962, where he started going to folk clubs and coffeehouses, and undertook guitar repairs at a store in Cambridge. He also began playing in a band called Banana and the Bunch, with Lowell "Banana" Levinger and Michael Kane, later of The Youngbloods. In 1964, the three musicians opened a music store in Martha's Vineyard, before Turner was invited to play guitar on tour with Ian & Sylvia. He also played on the duo's 1966 album, Play One More.
After the tour ended, Turner moved to New York City. He was a founding member of the psychedelic band Autosalvage, which released a self-titled album on RCA in 1968. He continued to repair guitars, and after Autosalvage split up moved to Point Reyes, California, in 1968.