2015-06-11
5 分钟Hey, it's Jonathan here with this week's Good Life project riff.
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 Tri Cities airport in Tennessee is totally grounded.
So we have two choices.
Wait 7 hours to take the 1 hour flight or grab the only remaining car, a big, macho, cream colored minivan, and hump 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 heartwood Artisan gateway, this beautifully built facility where I stumble upon a video of a luthier 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 guitars for the last few years and become obsessed with the craft.
But I'd never actually heard of Wayne before.
So watching a video of him in his workshop, I mesmerized.
I 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 for two reasons, actually.
One, he's a true master.