VIDEO: Historic guitar project is complete
Listen to Washburn man's story and hear him playing an instrument over a century old
A Dunstable man has tuned into the past with a loving restoration project on an American guitar over 100 years old.
Singer and guitarist Rick Camp is showing the world just how good a real period instrument sounds after spending some 1,300 on buying the 1907 Washburn parlour guitar and having it painstakingly restored by professional luthier David Merrin, of Olney in Bucks.
Said Rick: "He's done a fantastic job renovating it, removing all the bodged lacquer, French polishing it and achieved it without making it look like a new guitar."
Work on the guitar has revealed the Washburn to be made of now rare Brazilian rosewood with a sold spruce top and mahogany neck.
Delighted Rick, who has been putting the Washburn through its paces at Dunstable's Globe pub on Tuesday's acoustic nights, said: "It would rival a Martin in materials and its construction is fantastic."
You can hear Rick telling the Washburn's story and see him playing it by watching the attached video.
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