Thom Turner with Dishaw LP Custom

Here is the latest Guitar from the Dishaw guitar custom shop. The Body is constructed from Ash, the top and neck  is clear hard-rock maple with a high gloss black finish. The top has a green burst finish with natural binding, all hardware is Tone Pro with Sperzeil locking tuners. Electronics feature a 3-way selector switch, 2 vol., 2 tones which are push/push pots that splits the Seymour Duncan pickups coils to provide an amazing array of tone variations.

Hailing from Minetto NY, Thom has been playing guitar professionally since age 16.  Now at 28 he is a senior at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.  Thom performs with various groups almost 80 dates a year.  Wish Pool (www.wishpoolband.com) is five piece hardrock outfit with two albums released “Resurrected” and this year’s “Tabula Rasa”.  Thom and the boys have toured all over the north east, even playing along side Alter Bridge, Theory of a Dead Man, Black Stone Cherry, Red and many others.  While at school in Boston MA, Thom is the lead singer and guitarist of Celtic Rock standouts Dublin Free Press (http://www.dfpband.com).  Playing weekly all around Mass and greater New England, DFP is a fixture in the scene.  With an energetic stage show and tight playing DFP landed a weekly gig at Lansdowne PUB in Boston and has Played the pre-party for the yearly St. Patricks Day Dropkick Murphy’s show next door at the House of Blues.  Recently Thom was asked to join metal Legends Freya. (http://www.facebook.com/freyaband)  Lead by the indelible Earth Crisis front man Karl Buechner.  With four albums put out on Victory Records, Freya is in the process of recording their new album “Paragon of the Crucible” the sequel last years “All Hail the End”.  With East Coast, West Coast and beyond touring in the works, Thom is going to be busy showing off his Dishaw guitars.

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