- How are you doing ? - Waking up, bro.
Alright, man.
This right here the wood warehouse.
This over here is the manufacturing plant,
as a matter of fact we're growing and looking to take that building.
Holy smokes !
That's amazing. We wanted to be here earlier,
so, well, no that's not true, we just live on the road.
So, this is the Hollywood Bowl seating.
No way !
The old seating, we're making guitars out of them.
Hollywood bowl, holy shit.
I bet you guys got like, vintage aged wood too.
- We do. - You get all of it.
We take in old bridges, wood bridges, old barn wood
and make guitars out of them.
- It's good. - Yeah.
What I wanted to do on this episode, I really wanted to focus
on building these instruments from the ground up.
Someone of my favorite artisans and guys that I follow on Instagram
that are just amazing.
That's the best, I love you, man.
Just being able to document them and celebrate the craftsman,
that's what this is dedicated to.
And taking that and then that inspires the artist.
We're going to see the end part of the Fender Factory.
Visiting the Fender Factory,
it was really, kind of the start of this whole thing.
I wanted to show up there, I wanted to camp out
and wake up and be there right in the morning.
Fender has had a huge impact on my journey to playing the guitar.
My first electric was a Fender Nocaster that I cherished.
It fueled my passion for playing guitar
and appreciation for how they're made.
It's not some freaking machine, man, I love that.
He's been here since 1960, he's 91 years old.
Dude, what's up, Roger ?
How are you doing, sir ?
- You been here for 60 years ? - 61.
- 61 years you've been here. - I started in 1960.
Born in 1929, and you've been here and your 91 years old.
Your amazing. Thank you, my friend.
Bro, it's all hands on, artistry.
Same techniques they've been doing since 1954.
Wood founded Fender as an iconic company
and made it a household name that's still there today.
It's a legacy of craftsmanship that carries on with each guitar they make.
I think craftsmanship for me is pouring yourself into something
so that it's reflective of you.
It's crazy to think of all the music that will be created for the world
by these instruments.
And it all begins here, at the hands of these builders.
Somebody picks up a guitar, and they'll hold it for several minutes
and stare at every facet of that guitar.
You think it's like, yeah these are machine made...
But no, every detail, like, it was wonderful to go into the Fender
and see how much goes into one of these guitars,
a lot more than I thought.
It's a beautiful process, I was really blown away.
Dale Wilson, I follow you on Instagram.
Meeting all of the artisans and guys who I follow,
being able to see all the work, their workshops, going in there,
seeing how handcrafted everything is.
It's kind of a vulnerable thing. You make something
and if you're proud of it, you're proud to show your friends, your family.
But your also kind of vulnerable because you are worried
they might find all the stuff that you think is wrong with it.
I've been building guitars about 18 years here at Fender
and I built my first guitar when I was 14 years old in high school.
While the kids were building bongs and clocks
I decided I wanted to build a guitar.
I wanted to slow things down and take my time
and just focus on something really detailed.
I could spend my time
making something that somebody else could appreciate.
Being able to do this and make someone's day,
that's why I'm doing it.
Always learning and developing that into the craft and making it better
and I get to pour myself into that guitar.
I still don't believe that this is what I do,
sometimes I'll tell my mom I'm at Jimmy Page's house
and she's like: "That's nice, honey."
These craftsmen have the coolest jobs.
They're coming into work every day and they live their passion,
using their skills to make music possible for so many.
Going to the Fender custom shop, they were so cool to me
and so nice, the whole team.
Seeing how an instrument comes together
made me want to learn more, to draw from that well of inspiration.
This lead me to Les Claypool,
someone who has had a heavy hand in creating custom guitars.
- Do you go swimming in this ? - You can.
Don't worry, I used to be a lifeguard. Come on, it's really good.
Les Claypool and Primus were massive influences on me growing up.
I relate to his unique style of music
and it inspired me to pick up the bass.
Man. That was less than a minute.
I call him Geoff.
Look at that, buddy. That's impressive, sir.
Being able to spend time with him and his family
and become friends with him
is something that I never would have thought possible as a kid.
Shit !
I've caught Damien.
This is how bad of a fisherman Aquaman is.
Primus is, without a doubt, one of my all time favorite bands.
Bass isn't usually a forefront instrument,
but Les Claypool, when he's on stage, he steals the show.
This one really growls.
This one for me, it sounds more like Primus, like.
He has some of the most incredibly intricate
and impressive bass rifts I've ever heard.
So much that, there's a couple of them he can't even play anymore.
He's so connected to his instruments that create his unique sound.
He's just a master of his craft.
What inspired me to play guitar,
I've always tried to pick it up and wanted to learn.
But I just, I didn't have it when I was a kid
and I wish I would have tried it a little bit longer.
But what inspired me are these artists,
people like Les Claypool and the Flea, they are big inspirations in my life.
I don't necessarily want to make my own songs,
I want to just sing their songs.
These are all Carl Thompson basses.
He's a brilliant luthier. Everything he makes is so unique
and you kind of tailor your playing to the instrument, you know.
But I always tell people, if you want to buy the best bass in the world,
buy a Carl Thompson.
I mean, look at this thing, it's gorgeous.
He makes the most amazing instruments,
he's like the modern day Stradivarius, he really is.
When he comes in can I give him the finger ?
Anything you want.
I discovered Carl Thompson through Primus,
and Les Clapypool was a huge inspiration to me
and Primus when I was young, growing up, skateboarder.
And then just seeing...
Seeing him just kind of blew my mind.
What's up, buddy ? It's a pleasure to meet you, man.
Awesome ! This shop is amazing.
It was pretty exciting to be able to go to Carl's house
and go into Brooklyn and go down in this basement
and it is like super tiny.
Alright, are you going to show me around a little bit.
Come over here !
- Wax on, wax off. - Excellent. Wax on.
I tell everybody when they come to visit me, they've got to work.
No exceptions. I don't care how big he is !
It's an honor.
Being in Carl's presence, that's a guru grandpa,
you know you're in the basement of your grandpa's place,
you hope your grandpa's that cool.
But he's just dropping all of these beautiful little nuggets of wisdom.
- What the hell's this ? - My brother drew that.
Okay, well that's fine, your brother drew it.
Billy Ray, see the name ? Billy Ray Thompson.
Me and Batman, I know him very well.
And that's all ink. He just sat down and did this.
- A family of artists. - No pencil, none of that shit.
For this incredible show,
we've been able to meet people from all over,
including masters of craft in unexpected places.
Carl is no different.
His space might be small but the basses he creates are unbelievable.
He's been making these instruments here for years,
literally shaping the course of musical history from beneath his fingers.
This one's gorgeous. You sure you want to send this to Australia ?
I have to. This guy's been waiting a million years.
We can make him wait longer, right ?
You originally started as a jazz musician
and then you started making your basses ?
Or have you always made your basses ?
My job was, I was not just a jazz musician,
I was a professional musician.
And I did studio work, I played in polka bands,
I played with Billy Ward and the Dominoes, Jackie Wilson.
And it wasn't like I never played a Fender bass before,
but I never played one six nights a week.
And I said, do you guys play these things like this,
all out of balance and they weighed nine thousand pounds.
The bridge is in the wrong place.
I said, maybe I'll try to make a bass.
There it is, that's the first one.
I made that, and then...
- What year was this ? - 1974.
When I was a kid I never even picked up a screwdriver.
I was just playing the guitar all the time.
So I guess somewhere along the line, I had something in my genes.
Carl's lived such an extraordinary life.
Being a self taught master,
words can't describe how amazing he is.
I want it to look like this, I want it to look right,
it has to be right, yeah. I don't care how you approach it.
He really shows the importance of handcrafters.
And while many larger builders have lost that human touch,
there are still a few who champion craftsmanship.
Billy, I'm remember seeing this, before I even played guitar.
I was like, what is that ?
And I brought my first national.
And it was on the day of Robert Johnson's death
and I learned how to play left steel,
and then I played how to play, like, come on in my kitchen,
before I could actually play a note.
I started playing slide before I could actually play notes.
- You still got that one ? - Yeah. I got all of that stuff.
There are some guitars that changed the course of music history.
One of those guitars, ZZ Top front man Billy Gibbons 1959 Les Paul,
the mistress Pearly Gates.
Give me a little history of Pearly Gates !
I point to Eric Clapton as being the guy that cracked the code
and the evidence showed up
on the back of the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers record
and that became the go to thing.
But keep in mind that was in '66 or '67,
this instrument had already been out of production since early sixties.
Pearly Gates is one of the most iconic guitars in the world.
I sent my team to Gibson to meet Billy and his legendary instrument.
Took off to Los Angeles saying that you got a buyer for Pearly.
I sold him the steel Pearly.
- Where's Pearly ? - Coming in.
- You guys ready ? - Go !
Pearly Gates is Billy Gibbons guitar that he's known to have
from like, the beginnings of ZZ Top, very special.
Immediately the sound of the instrument
eclipsed everything that had come before it.
You don't get to see that guitar that often so my team got to be there
and to see the most perfect 59 Les Paul in history.
It made divine music and it created a genre of music.
This is music history.
To be able to shoot Pearly Gates, it's magic, it's huge,
that guitar is definitely locked down Fort Knox.
Even unplugged, these things have a resonance.
I got a meeting with Tom Murphy. Tell me what this is ?
This was my file when we first tried to replicate Pearly Gates.
These were the pictures taken of the actual guitar.
He's got these legends and I want to celebrate their guitars
and by doing that, we're going to take their guitar
with all the cracks and the beats, the smoky lounges
and everything and all that soul that's in there.
And then we're going to duplicate it
with other artisans who were inspired by that music.
And then surprise them so they can retire if they want
and take it out and go play it in the world.
Getting the opportunity to help replicate
one of the most famous guitars in music history for a music legend,
another surreal experience.
All the love and skill that goes into building a masterpiece
really makes you appreciate the craftsmen
who dedicated their lives to keeping this art form alive.
Everyone that works at Gibson is excited about these artists.
That's maybe why they work there, because they're moved by them
and now we get to build his guitar and auction it off for charity.
So that was like a really special thing,
just to be able to document that and then give something back.
I was pleased to see that we were going to replicate the Pearly Gates,
Billy Gibbons guitar, for Jason.
It's always been really special to me because in the spring of '70
I was sitting on the floor in a tiny little club
to see Billy Gibbons new band.
He walked from behind his Marshal amp holding that Les Paul
and I was a 19 year old kid hearing Billy Gibbons play
and seeing that Les Paul.
It was just guitar heaven and music heaven.
It's just thrilling to see that circle happen
were I was influenced by that guitar and then getting to replicate it.
This particular guitar, of all guitars I've done,
I had to use a wire brush on a grill to replicate
where he has worn the wood away,
not the finish, the wood is rounded off there.
Belt buckle. They're low slung, you know.
So that's what Billy Gibbons guitar looks like.
It has a real, like, tobacco, it's been played in a lot of clubs.
Of course. You can see the yellowing of the binding,
that's the lacquer turning yellow on the whole guitar.
I asked him personally, of all the years and all the guitars,
how this guitar did never get broken ?
He said: "'Cause she was right here."
We heard that Billy had named that Les Paul Pearly Gates,
so he loaned a car to a girl to go to California
and the car was named Pearly Gates.
My buddy he said, there's a cowboy outside of town
he's working a ranch, he used to have a cowboy band,
I think he's got one of those sunburst Les Paul's.
I said: "Let's go check it out."
He pulled it out from under the bed,
it was the famous story, under the bed.
He opened up the case and there it was.
There was a young girl that was in Texas,
she was actually from Los Angeles and she had an opportunity
to get a part in a movie
but she didn't have a way to get from Texas back to California.
So a buddy of mine and I gave her a 1936 Packard.
We said, listen we don't know if it's going to make it,
we don't know if you're going to get there.
But sure enough she said, I'm going to learn how to drive it,
which she did, made it all the way to California,
got the part and she said: "Now what do I do ?"
I said well sell the car, which she did
and she sent the money back to us on the day that we found the Les Paul.
I had this hand full of cash and I gave it to this cowboy
and I said: "Here, we'll make a deal."
He said fine and that was the start of it.
Under a bed in Texas, that's how you found Pearly Gates.
That's it.
I loved sitting with him and hearing his story, so.
It was one of those beautiful moments when you meet your heroes
and your heroes are cool. So, it's be cool, be kind.
The craftsman who built the original 1959 Les Paul
changed the course of music history.
Each one was hand built creating a unique personality for each guitar.
And like Pearly,
they went on to create music that would inspire us for generations.
That's the Pearly Gates.
We're at the home of Dan Maloney
who has been making me basses for years.
I wanted to design my own instrument that fit me personally,
my ergo instrument.
It was Dan the only person I wanted to talk to about it, so.
Let's go see Dan !
- He's a good guy. - That's what I am telling them.
- The mystery god. - How are you doing, Dan ?
How are you doing ?
Nice to meet you, this is where it's all made.
This is where it happens.
I asked Dan to make me one out of dark chocolate
and, so, I'm very anxious to have the first edible
Pachiderm bass guitar, so.
We were talking because I wanted to get a bass from you
and then you said maybe, possibly the next bass he would be making
we could make a koa, right ?
We're making a couple of koa's. We'll see which one I want to keep.
So we get twinsies.
I love natural materials. I feel so connected with these things
that are shaped from the earth, they have meaning.
Koa is my favorite wood and it's from Hawaii,
it's absolutely beautiful.
So this bass is kind of a marriage of those things that I love.
There you go.
That's perfect. That came out great.
How long did it take to make one of them ?
I started this one about five or six months ago I think.
I was like okay, I want something that balances incredibly well,
that is light, super punchy, very basic electronics.
I want shit to be easy and ergo,
I like it to feel, have the contours and these different things
and how they feel against my body.
And I sit there and I play with them in my chair
and lay on the couch and do all kinds of things.
That was for me, when I was growing up with my Carl Thompson bass,
it was like my girlfriend, I had this thing with me everywhere,
it was very comfortable for me.
So I wanted my instruments to be equally as comfortable.
We shifted the waist on it
so like, this, the waist is here, the waist is here.
What I was finding is that it didn't balance on my knee very well.
So we shifted the bottom portion of the waist back,
it's basically the same base but we wanted to extend the lower horn
so it feels better on your knee. See like, it just sits there.
You can work on the console, it doesn't go anywhere.
But it's also a little bit of a homage to Carl Thompson,
because Carl is the king of all kings and this is a bit of a nod to him.
So each one of these are being done.
Some of the ones I use but he does all the finery, diner-ly.
- How would you shape this edge ? - I would use different methods.
I'd use a bit of that, I'd use a bigger,
I'd use the grinder and on the, real fine stuff,
I use files, I use sandpaper...
Did you just ruin it ?
- That was mine. - Yeah, you brought that one.
Yep, it's all good.
But you can see I did a couple of dingers when I was working on it,
right here, I did exactly what you did.
We edit that out so we'll never use it, I didn't ding shit.
- I saw you ding it. - I didn't.
Thank you for opening your house and home and showing us your craft.
And thank you for showing me that you do it yourself,
which I think is amazing.
I do none of that stuff, I'm a jazz musician.
I play the bass !
I float around honestly.
It's pretty cool coming down here. Carl's dad built this.
He took the neck off an acoustic and built the body for it,
that was back in the 1930's.
It was before Les Paul was building instruments.
His dad was doing a bunch of recording on early recording gear.
He always had trouble getting feedback on that early recording,
so he decided to build an electric guitar.
My dad was a machinist.
He was a musician, he was not professional.
He just played, you know ? And he had that old neck,
and he took some two by fours and cut them up and made a body.
And then he made the pickup.
- Les Paul played this guitar. - Did he ?
Yeah, Les was in my shop several times back in those days.
Les actually said, he said:
"Carl, your dad could have been one of the first guys"
"to make a solid body guitar."
It's not much but it worked. I have recordings of him playing this.
I don't know how he ever played this thing.
A lot of guys played this guitar, Eric Clapton played it.
Eric Clapton played it ?
When working with Danny Armstrong all of those guys used to come around.
It's a museum piece, sir.
Carl's father's guitar has been played by many big names.
It could be one of the world's first solid body electric guitars.
To see it just hanging there,
it's just a testament to how humble he is.
- This stuff here too ? - No, this is it.
- That is amazing. - That's all we do, yeah.
Carl clearly comes from a family of creators.
As a father who wants to pass down to my kids the things that I love,
my passions, I felt a deep connection.
Well that's what our show is really about,
it's just handcrafted artists and it's the heartbeat of it right here
like, being in a basement in this small studio
making the greatest basses in the world.
Your one of the greatest heroes in the world, bro.
To document him, that's what this is all about.
Just going down into his little workshop, you can experience it,
it was beautiful to watch this whole thing come to life.
I'll tell you something, I'm one of eleven children.
My mother, one day she took me aside,
I think I was about thirteen or fourteen years old.
And she said:
"Carl, your dad and I think you have some very special gifts."
"I'm not saying you're better than the rest of the kids,"
"don't think that..."
"I'm just saying you seem to have some special gifts."
She said that: "Let me tell you something, Carl,"
"the best gift that anybody can have is to share their gift."
"If you don't share it, it's worthless."
She told me that. And I remembered that my whole life.
I share it all the time.
Any time I get full of myself and I think I'm somebody...
Just what he lives by, his motto's, the things that fuel him,
and he's so inspiring.
Thank you, you definitely shared your gift.
That's what's right.
It's a hundred percent, he's definitely shared his gift.
And so does Joe. That's a very important thing to do.
It's not yours anyway. When you go, it goes somewhere else.
You could get all full of yourself because you can do this or that. No.
I'm using my passion or excitement about what he does
to show the world and he has this super power
of being able to do this, and he needs to pass it to the world.
So I think it's wonderful that we're complimenting each other.
- This is called the Nashville. - It's what, a Nashville ?
Rainbow bass started as a guitar back in the seventies.
You were the first one to do that.
They called it rainbow bass and when Les came into my life,
I just thought this guy's a crazy guy.
I'm going to make him something crazy.
- The craziest. - I'll make him something crazy.
Now everyone wants a rainbow bass.
Is that his first one, is it like the rainbow ?
That's the first one I made him. But he had one before that,
he found one, he said that particular bass he has, the walnut bass.
He said he found that in a hawk shop in San Francisco, a long time ago.
- Really ? - So before I even met him.
I stumbled across one, at the local music store, that was used.
I was like holy shit, picked it up and played it,
it was the one you played last night.
I had no money and so I just went and borrowed money
and I skimped and saved and it was 600 dollars.
And I went in to go back to get it and they had marked it up to 1 000.
And I told the guy: "Dude, you told me 600 !"
I was in high school. He goes into the back and he comes back
and he's like: "I'll sell it to you for six hundred with tax."
And I was like, okay, and I gave him 600
and I wrote him a bum check for the tax. But I got the bass.
When Les came over,
and he said he wanted to get a six string bass.
And so he started making it and then half way through
I was like, I'm going to maybe have it be fretless because I'm an idiot.
And I made my life much harder by having it be fretless.
Why did I decide to have a fretless, this was the ridiculous thing,
I wanted the challenge.
I'm bored with a four string, I want to challenge myself.
That's his bass. When I made his,
this stuff went all the way through, the rainbow.
Because when I heard that scroll, all those woods art,
I was in the kitchen
but, I should have charged him 50 million dollars for that one.
Les' music was influenced directly by Carl's genius in making this bass.
And the songs created on it had a profound impact
on a lot of people, including me.
Pacyderm basses are amazing. They're super ergo.
But if you wanted an incredible piece of art
by the greatest bass builder I've ever come across ever,
get a Carl Thompson.
Have you seen the picture I got from him ?
No, show it to me.
He's a wild man, I love him to death, man.
He speaks so highly of you too, it's an honor to be able to come here
and meet you and I'm so happy I got a bass from you.
I'm glad you did too, I told you before,
I made guitars for Lou Reed, Hank Williams,
I never made one for the Aquaman.
Carl made this gorgeous six string bass,
the woodwork was pure artistry.
He took influence from Les' style and incorporated it into his build.
Carl's just a fucking genius.
Yeah, this thing's amazing. Nice and light.
Now Les has his pachyderm basses that he does with Dan Maloney.
- This things bad ass. - Yeah ! Carl !
But it's really beautiful to see where that kind of style came from
and that was through Carl.
- Yeah, this thing's really cool. - I'm stoked to tell Carl.
He's very excited it's coming here.
Going to Carl's place, in his little small basement,
it's quite impressive to go.
What we're shooting on the show is like these massive companies
that are still making handcrafted things.
But then there's, like, getting into someone's garage, like Dan,
making these amazing instruments.
But still, Carl, you would think it would be a little bit...
- And he's like eighty what ? - I don't even know.
I think he's a vampire, I think he's ageless.
Look at that. Nobody beats his woodwork, it's unbelievable.
They are literally pieces of art.
And that's one of the beautiful things about it,
like you're creating something with him.
You get to see behind the curtain of what it takes
to make something like this and that kind of artistry.
So koa wood, the core is mahogany, the neck is roasted maple.
Is that what that is ?
This is what they looked like before, that's the neck.
Before this it's a tree.
So two of my firsts, I've never had a fretless,
so I think it was going to make me fretless,
same with you guys.
It's beautiful. And then this is my first,
this will be the first six string, right here.
Amazing !
I don't know how many guitars he puts out a year,
but it's just so special to be able to have anything from him,
and be able to record him.
Carl, if there's a charity that you really love,
we're going to raise money and give that to a charity,
if there's anything that you.
- "Make a wish." - "Make a wish" ?
I'm going to auction off basically my first fretless
and hopefully raise money and it will bring to some charities
and then we'll do "Make a wish", buddy.
When I talked to him on the phone, what did I say ?
I said, this guy, I never met him but he sure sounds like a nice guy.
Well you gave me a lot of gold today, you gave me some great advice.
Hey buddy !
To be able to use my team and our passion and to be able
to capture him in the most beautiful way, it was an honor.
- You want to see what Dan made ? - I do.
Okay, so, this is one of the first koa's that he was working on.
- This was the first koa. - It's one of the first ones.
So these are the two koa's he was working on when you were around.
Both of these have been my road basses.
I've taken them both on the road.
For the making of this show, I've come to realize
that the flame inside all of us to create
and give our gift to the world is the thing that pulls us together.
Being able to share these one of a kind guitars with the world,
I wanted to make an extra one so that we can auction it off
and then from there, donate it to charity.
I always tell my kids,
I'm like, when I go, when I die, there's no money.
Evel Knievel said when I was a kid:
"I've made two million dollars in my life,"
"which was a shit load of money back then. But I've spent four."
So I tell my kids, look when I go, there's no money,
but you're going to have a fuck of a yard sale,
because I keep all this shit.
See it's on the van, I got all kinds of shit like that.
Lola and Wolf, I made a lot of money, I spent more,
you can have a hell of a yard sale.
So when we auction it off,
it basically gets to go to any charity that you want.
What charity would you want the money to go to ?
Well because we lost my little nephew Matthew,
years ago to leukemia and I saw
what my brother and my sister in law and whole family went through...
In that situation as you know, as a father,
it's the most horrific thing you could possibly imagine,
losing a kid.
So St Jude's Hospital was this amazing place
that really took care of my brother and his family and so, "St Jude's".
- Thank you, brother. - Right on, man.
That's awesome. Yeah. Let's eat some of your wieners.
Alright, let's do this. Let me show you something.
Right so straight from Murphy's lab we got three.
My gosh !
I want to give you two and we're going to sign one for a fan.
Do us the honors, do you want to open them up ?
Man !
Somebody's going to be really happy.
Man !
Right ? This comes the tough part now.
Beautiful !
Damn right. Nice and dark too.
Baby, that one's good !
Look at the depth of that color, the movement, you know.
They call it flame maple and there's a reason,
because it flairs under the movement.
Really being able to spend time with him and give it to him,
in his home and just honor him, it's a wonderful thing, man.
He's really a beautiful human being.
This is really beautiful work. Stunning.
Every element of it is so bold.
I hope we captured on camera like how unbelievable these things are.
Pearly has this presence,
this powerful tone that has yet to be eclipsed.
- Cesar. - Jason ! Hi, Billy !
We did it.
We did it and we're going to join you
in supporting one of the great charities that we know
that you've been so closely associated with.
You know with all the work we're doing around music education,
I think Gibson Gives will be the right place.
Nice, Gibson Gives, I love it, buddy.
It's a done deal.
I can't believe this is happening, I'm pinching myself.
This is a real special moment.
And just in time the ZZ Top tour starts in, just around the corner,
and we don't have to worry about what we're taking on the road,
I'm seeing it right here.
- That's awesome. - This is really special.
I love it here. I'm really proud of all the stuff that you guys have created
and that's what we want to celebrate.
We want to celebrate handcrafted. You guys are still doing it here,
it's just so wonderful to celebrate craftsmanship
and be able to pass it over to the musicians.
It's beautiful, full circle of passing on the thing that we love,
the universal language of music so, thank you, Fender !
A lot of these artists come back and they want these certain luthiers,
these certain craftsman to build their guitars.
And so, this one goes out to the boys at Fender,
I love this little team,
and please enjoy how much goes into these little pieces of art.
What an amazing journey, unlike any I've ever had before.
The craftsmen I've met have opened my eyes
to the love and detail that goes into every instrument they create.
They come from all walks of life
and create their art in different environments.
They themselves are works of art in basements, in factories,
in garages.
It's a collective of specialists who love what they do
and who share their gifts with the world.
They're united by the drive and passion to build these tools of music
and translate that into every stroke of the file,
tap of the hammer and winding of the strings.
My heart is so full getting to explore even a piece of this world
and to meet the masters who live in it.
I never wanted to be a master. I had an idea about making a bass,
and I found a way to make it happen, that's all.
It doesn't take any genius to do that.
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