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Greetings from Finland. When I turned 50, I bought my first guitar. The plan was to learn to play it, but that didn’t work out. What next? I love guitars and those who can play them; Gary Moore is the greatest of all. And then I found your magazine at a local grocery store and fell in love with it. All those guitars and players and interesting stories about guitar makers. Guitarist magazine is the Holy Grail for guitar lovers. So, if my fingers don’t learn to play, should I try to build a guitar? The answer was ‘yes’.

I think a Les Paul is a great guitar, so that was the starting point. Peter Green’s – and later Gary Moore’s – ‘Greeny’ inspired

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