In the late 1980s, Brent McElroy, a carpenter, became intrigued when he met a cohort who made his own guitars. In 1991, when McElroy opened a coffee shop offering live music on the weekends, he encountered another artist who made his own guitars. But it wasn’t until McElroy moved to Seattle, in the mid-’90s, that he met a guitar maker at Seattle Center and was finally inspired to transfer his skills to lutherie. Now, 20 years and more than 100 guitars later, McElroy builds a range of steel-string instruments as well as nylon-strings.
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