Winnipeg guitar maker teaches others the craft

It's one thing to buy a guitar but it's another thing altogether to make your own, and a local guitar maker is teaching Winnipeg guitar lovers how to do just that. Jeremy Hamm has been making custom-built guitars for decades, and the man behind the Hamm-tone guitar name has opened up a guitar-making school in Winnipeg's Exchange District. "There are no rules with guitar making, you can do anything you want," Hamm told CBC Manitoba's Weekend Morning Host, Nadia Kidwai when she stopped by the school this week. "That's the neatest thing about this school that I've set up here because this is an era where people don't really make anything anymore, they buy stuff and they throw it out when it breaks. "Where in this case they learn how to build and repair so they have a guitar that'll last them their entire lifetime and chances are they'll be able to give them to their children or their grandchildren." That's exactly what Randy Magierowski is planning to do with the electric guitar he built from scratch through the course last November. Magierowski, who is now in the middle of building his second guitar, says his family has two violins built...

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