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93 DECEMBER 2020 not only for his work but also his approach. "Randy and I went back and forth with adjustments, like, eight times over a three-month period," he says. "It was all very easygoing. He knew the kind of style I play, and I could go to him as many times as I needed at no extra charge. "I had to have a very precise neck to pick up on intonation variables, and Randy got it to exactly where I wanted it. At high volumes the guitar tears the roof off the place more than my other guitars. "It definitely gives me a sense of freedom," Hersch adds. "And the wood is a Brazilian rosewood, which balances out the hot and heavy pickups that he has on there." Springis didn't pick up his own first guitar until he was 23 and in the Marine Corps. And it took 20 more years after that for him to start playing seriously. But he was always frustrated with what was available. "You go to a guitar center and see mass-produced instruments on the wall, and they just don't feel substantial," he says. "They don't have any soul." He finally decided to fix what was missing by taking the painstaking care he brings to his work as a master builder of period furniture reproductions (he trained at Boston's North Bennet Street School, which teaches fine craftsmanship) and parlaying it into building artisanal guitars. Karge guitars have an arresting visual aesthetic. Springis sources salvaged chestnut from old wood beams or rosewood. Dr. Robert Murgia is the latest board-certified dermatologist to join our family in Peabody, MA now taking patients! Call us to schedule your appointment today! 20% off ALL cosmetics for new patients!