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“I auditioned for a guitar commission with a carload of basses! I laid them all out on the floor, and he went, ‘OK, let’s make a guitar’”: James Hetfield’s luthier on how he went from crafting basses to becoming the Metallica guitarist’s go-to axe maker … from Guitarworld janelle.borg@futurenet.com (Janelle Borg)
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