#372:Stephen McSwain/Custom Guitar Builder "Handmade"

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🗓️ 7 August 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Today on LET THERE BE TALK my guest is the great Stephen McSwain Head designer and luthier of McSwain Guitars out of Portland Oregon.

Stephen and I sit down and talk about what it's like to build handmade guitars in America for the last 20 years.

Stephen and i also discuss his recent relocation to Portland Oregon and what kind of adjustments he had to make in life to follow his dream.

Stephen has a long waiting list for his custom guitars and has built guitars for some of the biggest rock stars in the biz including Jerry Cantrell and Slash.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody? It is Monday, August 7th, and it is a new episode. It'll have to be
0:06.8	talked today. We'll be a handmade episode. The return of the handmade. I love doing these
0:15.6	episodes because I was just talking to my boy Spicer and I get a lot of emails from people
0:24.5	who are, you know, they look at the photos on Instagram and they enjoy the stuff I post up and
0:32.0	they'll be like, yo man, where did you get that key chain or those boots or where can I find a
0:38.8	cool fucking turntable or any of that stuff? And I enjoy turning people on to good stuff. I think
0:48.0	that the only way to keep these people in business is by spreading the word, you know.
0:56.7	Grass roots, as I say over and over and over, but it works. And I love that there's people out
1:04.8	there just making shit that I go crazy over, man. It's a passion of mine and I'm just like, you
1:12.4	know, I was telling Spicer, people will describe me like, oh, I love him. He's got that passion of
1:19.2	like, oh, check this out. It's killer. That's my imitation of Steve Aegee and personating me. It's
1:27.7	killer, man. Feels killer. Anyway, I don't know. You know, you have stuff that affects your life like
1:39.5	and you love it and then you want to tell people about it. And that's definitely my guess today,
1:46.3	man. You're going to love this one. It's another guitar builder and I did this episode a few months ago
1:52.9	and of course I do love guitars and even if you don't love guitars, you're going to love this
1:58.3	episode because it deals with all kinds of stuff, moving to another state. You ever live somewhere
2:05.0	for most of your life and go, ah, fuck it. I want to try and live somewhere else.
2:10.9	I always tell people, you know, you can move somewhere. You can always move back. Like, I move 300
2:18.7	miles from San Francisco to L.A. and my whole life completely changed. And I can't imagine if I
2:26.0	didn't move and take that chance. I travel all over America and I see some of the coolest,
2:34.3	coolest, you know, places. You know, if I wasn't in the biz, I don't even know if I'd live in L.A.
2:41.3	anymore because it's, it's one of those things where I'm like, well, I did that. I've been here
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