BRW Headstock Veneer w/Flowerpot Inlay. She had us aflutter with her skills, the pictured ukulele built by Jayne Henderson. His guitars are built one at a time and on no particular timetable. At some point, the story of Eric Clapton's Henderson guitar came up, after which i started looking for this book. It's so small we have to take turns being the mayor, the preacher, and the town drunk—and a slightly off-color story about the old lady and the elephant: "With only seven people not too much happens in Rugby, but one time a circus was coming through town on their way to the big city…Mouth of Wilson. We learned about Wayne Henderson over two decades ago (1998) by seeing some of his instruments displayed in the Visitors Center Museum at Grayson Highlands State Park. He has hosted the annual Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival and Guitar Competition since 1995. The first part of the plot went off as planned. Herringbone Top Border. Old Farmer Jones who lives down the holler was pretty disappointed.
Moving your place in line was mind blowing. Warning: The book is very sporadic and jumps quite often and is poorly written so be warned Goodreaders! I suppose that we could walk down Main Street buck naked and I reckon nobody'd care. If you care about guitars, their history, their construction, you will like this book. Through the 2014 festival, he says, the scholarships had totaled more than $116, 000. " W C Henderson guitars are built by Wayne Henderson in Rugby, Virginia, Henderson is a very well respected fingerstyle guitarist, and also runs the Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival and Guitar Competition at Grayson Highlands State Park in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, on the third weekend of June each year. I had been fascinated with guitars my whole life, from the red bass that Danny Bonaduce didn't play on The Partridge Family to Bruce Springsteen's Fender Esquire, a reasonable facsimile of which sat in my office, bought with one of my first paychecks.
Clapton, who will only reluctantly talk to journalists, will talk to Wayne Henderson. Can't find what you're looking for? She asked, as indulgently as possible. She uses premium materials. With a waiting list that spans decades this is a rarity for one to come up for sale, this one came to us from the original owner - whom Wayne built it for.
There are practical jokes throughout as well. And maybe someone to point out the hard way will make a better instrument? Wayne Henderson comes from a family of craftspeople and musicians in Rugby, Virginia, in the White Top Mountain area of Grayson County near the North Carolina border. You also come to appreciate Henderson as a person, a good person with a good heart and plenty of soul, not a little of which he obviously pours into his guitars. What was weird was that, as I played the guitar, it seemed to be opening up in real time (it was brand new, just in the shop) so I have no idea what the guitar would sound like in a year. Though ostensibly a book about a man who builds guitars, Allen St. John takes you to guitar contests, Christie's auction house, the Martin factory in Nazareth, PA and even to Boston's Fenway Park for a showdown between the Red Sox and Yanks. Grammy winner Gillian Welch, who'd been a friend of Wayne's since before she was famous, had to wait seven years for her guitar. They searched high and low. My husband played guitar and spoke of this builder of guitars. K&K Pure Mini Passive Pick Up. I wish that I had listened more when he was talking. Now I read it, and am very happy I bought it, that summers day a few years ago. I played guitar a little, not very much and not very well, but enough that a guitar would be more than a wall ornament. And while the legendary performer was suitably impressed by the audiophile-quality recording gear, what captured his imagination was Duffy's own acoustic guitar.
This is the guitar that Eric Clapton really liked, right? Aw heck, said Henderson, I didn't even know who you were till last year. And few outside of his small world seem to know much about it. Normally, it's a ten year wait and you have to very persistent, likeable and involved to get ever get it. But Wayne insists it never. As he demonstrated onstage an hour earlier, Wayne Henderson is a guitar player's guitar player. While this book obviously appeals to guitar fans it's broad enough and interesting enough to appeal to a wide vvariety of people. Said Duffy, sealing one deal, perhaps in the service of sealing another. A Stradivari in glue-stained blue jeans. Flamed Koa Back & Sides. You would be better of reading a biography of Eric Clapton or watching a live performance of Clapton on YouTube than you would reading this book. Clapton is tangential to the story; it's really about the process of making a guitar and the life lessons along the way. Henderson commuted briefly to Nashville, where he repaired guitars, including instruments belonging to Elvis Presley and Neil Young. Further speculation is that this is the guitar upon which.
An easy postal route that left him with plenty of time to build guitars, which he has been building his whole life. The book is not about Eric Clapton but rather about Wayne Henderson a Virginia luthier who builds arguably the greatest hand made guitars in the world. Indeed, people wait years for one of Henderson's steel-string guitars.
He used a dresser-drawer bottom and some black, sticky stuff his father used to glue weather stripping to the car door. 25 ratings 3 reviews. Turns out that Wright had been on tour in New Orleans, and had only gotten back to his home in Staten Island a couple of hours ago. Much to my misfortune. The alternative: build the guitars as sturdily as possible. That would be a bit over the top. Oh well, just my hot button there.
He charges an almost ridiculously modest $1, 500 for one of his guitars—other builders charge ten times as much—or he might barter for something like a new interior for his 1957 Thunderbird. Ivroid Body Binding. Prices subject to change without notice. Josh Reese leads the inlay process and begins the process with a drawing or a sketch that works with your request. So I soon came to realize that my mid-1970s Martin was a good guitar, but not a great one. Deposits are non-refundable. It's also a damned good primer on guitar building and the ins and outs of tone woods. Rarer than Stradivarius violins, these musical works of art are built from near-extinct Brazilian Rosewood, Appalachian spruce, black ebony, and fine mother-of-pearl. What got my attention were the curvaceous lines of his signature peghead. Foreword by Alen St. John. We talked a little bit about his forthcoming gig in New York, before I cut to the chase. Bob had visited Wayne's workshop, which was built with the money from a National Heritage Fellowship grant he'd received from Hillary Clinton at the White House in 1996. I'd have a high-end guitar like a lot of other people. However, I wouldn't recommend to any casual reader, such as myself.
By all accounts, they're worth every penny. Duffy, you see, wears another hat as well. "Clapton's Guitar" is a somewhat rambling but interestingly and warmly told, well written tale of the making of two guitars by Wayne for Eric Clapton. Deep River Blues, delighted and yet slightly disconcerted by the way the guitar continued to blossom from verse to verse, even chord to chord, like a blooming daffodil enhanced by time-lapse photography. Wayne is the only guy I ever saw who could build a guitar with a penknife, Greven said with a laugh.
There's something about this book that is insprirational in a way I can't quite put my finger on. John is an involved narrator, self-deprecating in a good way, teaching the history and art of guitar making. Thus I moved back onto The List. Number of bids and bid amounts may be slightly out of date. Love and patience and jokes and banter and memories; years of combined knowledge and skills, all rolled up in an inanimate object that... lives. And he covers all the bases in every guitar he builds, known for their volume, tone, and resonance.
Then you just carve away everything that isn't a guitar. He doesn't have the name recognition of, say, the bluegrass legend Doc Watson. Choose Brand / Builder. Frierson Designs Surfboards, Virginia. There's a little bit of a wait. Each year I schedule out 10-12 definite builds from my list of orders and sprinkle some spec instruments in with them.
A thoroughly enjoyable read for those of us with perpetual GAS - guitar acquisition syndrome. This 1998 model is a red spruce top with mahogany back & sides. It was bright and rich. This book taught me a lot about music, musicians and guitars. If I knew anything about guitars it might have been a little better, since the jargon never lets up. Henderson has built guitars for Tommy Emmanuel, Doc Watson, Peter Rowan, Gillian Welch, and Eric Clapton. If form followed function—and it usually does in the guitar world—this would indeed be a special instrument.