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Guitar maker gives new life to historic timber
Guitar man • Phil Whitmarsh, the owner of Old Market Guitarworks, shows off some of the guitar bodies he made at Nebraska Innovation Studio on July 8, 2024. The instruments are made from reclaimed wood from historically significant structures like Memorial Stadium, left, and the U.S. Navy battleship USS Texas.
Phil Whitmarsh starts a lot of conversations with an offbeat question: Have you ever played a 500-year-old guitar?
Eventually, he'll hand you Mary Kate. The instrument resembles a Fender Telecaster, the six-string synonymous with Americana twang and favored by artists like Bruce Springsteen.
Mary Kate looks and plays like a Telecaster, but the sound is different.
It's the wood, says Whitmarsh. That wood once helped hold up the old Woolworth warehouse in Omaha's historic Old Market.
In a few short years, Whitmarsh has crafted a curiosity into a small business, Old Market Guitarworks, creating q...
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