Hey, it's Jonathan here with this week's Good Life Project Rift.

The name of this riff, want to make better stuff, be a better person.

So, this went down a couple of years ago.

We were traveling out to a wedding in the mountains, sort of at the corner of Virginia and Tennessee

and North Carolina.

And our flight was canceled halfway through, so four of us are sitting stranded in the

airport in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Our connecting flight to try to say to this airport in Tennessee is totally grounded,

so we have two choices.

Wait seven hours to take the one hour flight or grab the only remaining car, a big macho,

cream-colored minivan, and hum through the mountains to Abington, Virginia, a small hamlet at the

crossroads of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia.

So it's a place where the choice between bourbon or whiskey is a matter of what side of

each state's border you happen to be standing on, and you don't want to choose wrong.

We decide to drive.

Two days later, I find myself at the Hartwood Artisan Gateway, this beautifully built facility

where I stumble upon a video of a looote here or a guitar builder named Wayne Henderson.

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

building a torch for the last few years and become obsessed with a craft.

But I'd never actually heard of Wayne before.

So watching a video of him in his workshop, a mesmerize, a half-dynamore, it turns out

that Wayne is also a national heritage award recipient and a bit of a legend in the guitar

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