![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, these guitars–branded with John and Rudy’s last names on the headstock–attracted quite a bit of attention. Pretty soon, on a small workbench in the boiler room, John was assembling these parts into kit guitars to sell in the showroom. He took a job as a repairman at Rudy’s Music Shop, a store on 48th Street in New York that happened to be a Schecter parts dealer (back in the eighties, Shecter was a parts supplier renowned for their high-quality bodies and necks). ![]() John Suhr set out to prove that he had what it took. You don’t need lessons–you either have what it takes or you don’t.” Benedetto told him “If you want to do this, you will just jump in. In an interview from a 2009 edition of Musician’s Hotline, he said that Mr. John would hang around the renowned archtop builder’s shop and ask for tips on lutherie as a young man, and he received some excellent advice in return for his persistence. You can trace John’s DIY work ethic to the man who built the neck on the guitar he smashed, Robert Benedetto. ![]() Throughout their history, there is a common theme: when no one can meet John Suhr’s exacting standards for quality, he and his team just figure out a way to do it themselves. That do-it-yourself spirit is still at the core of everything Suhr does. In a rage, John Suhr did his best Pete Townshend impression and smashed his guitar to bits before vowing to just do all his repair work himself. When he went to pick it up after months of waiting, he was rather disappointed to find his guitar looking worse than when he dropped it off. he sent it off to a well-reputed repairman to have stars inlaid on the fingerboard. In 1976, just a couple years after he started playing, he built a body to pair with a custom neck Bob Benedetto made him. The story of Suhr Guitars not with creation but with destruction. ![]()
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