How long has Terry been making guitars? How did Terry get started building guitars?
Terry, from the McInturff website: I’ve been building and servicing guitars for over 20 years now, not to mention that I’ve been playing for 28! When I was 20 years old, I attended Roberto Venn school of luthiery in Arizona. There, I was able to get some basic design and woodworking skills under my belt. The very first electric guitar that I made was an offset double cutaway, unbound carved top guitar with a bird’s eye maple top, mahogany back, mahogany neck, and a bound heavily inlaid rosewood fretboard of 25 1/8″ scale and 22 frets. I’d put a lot of thought into this guitar for several months before I attended Roberto-Venn in the fall of 1977. My original intent was to create a guitar that would appeal equally to the Strat and to the Les Paul player. This line of thought has since become a rather common one, but back in those days I think I just stumbled upon some good ideas through sheer ignorance! That first guitar in many, many ways is shockingly close to what I’m doing now. It ha
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