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Wood For The Trees

Opinion CONFESSIONS OF A LUTHIER

Regular readers of this column may remember I recently undertook a project to build 50 guitars to represent the UK’s ‘jubilee trees’. These trees were spotlighted in 2002 and make up some of the finest and most interesting trees in our landscape. My furniture-maker friend Danny and I have spent the past few years investigating quaint English villages and dark corners of obscure ancient woodlands to

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