Welcome to Good Life Project, where we take you behind the scenes for in-depth candid conversations

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Here's your host, Jonathan Fields.

So it's a gorgeous summer afternoon and I've just driven these beautiful mountains with Charlotte, North Carolina

to Abbington, Virginia and I find myself at the Hartwood Artisan Gateways,

stunning facility out in the mountains where a stungle upon a video of this luthier

a guitar builder named Wayne Henderson.

Wayne lives about an hour away, maybe an hour and a half in Rugby, Virginia and I've been

researching building guitars for the last few years and become kind of obsessed with the craft,

but actually never heard of Wayne before.

So watching the video of him and his work to kind of mesmerize and have to know more

and it turns out that Wayne is also a national heritage award recipient and a bit of a legend

in the guitar building world and really for two reasons.

One, he's a true master and he's been honing his craft as a player and as a builder for

more than four decades.

He plays like a savant and he builds some of the most sought after guitars in the world,

which leads to number two.

And then I said he once made Eric Clapton literally wait 10 years for a guitar, not as

spite or ego, just because he's one guy and he's still does most things by hand and the

list of people who won guitar from him is about 10 years long.

So I had to know more and I did some digging and discovered this book about Wayne and his

life and this really deep devotion to guitars and music and the craft and the Clapton story.

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