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CONFESSIONS OF A LUTHIER

Regular readers may remember that last issue I mentioned that I’d started running a group guitar-making course, helping students to realise their dreams of building their own acoustic guitar in a 14-day crash course of non-stop lutherie. Naturally, not content with watching other people have all the fun, I also built a guitar myself.

To ensure completion in such a short space of time, the number

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