Woodworker's Journal

A New “Eagle” Has Landed

love guitars. Anyone who knows me will attest to that. I’ve also loved music since I was a kid. Seeing instruments in the hands of the artists I admired, I knew I wanted a guitar. So at age 14, knowing nothing about guitar-building and possessing zero woodworking skills, the logical thing (to me, at least), was to make one. As soon as the idea popped into my head, there was no turning

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