Twenty Flight Rocker

IT MIGHT SEEM an odd juxtaposition of standards that a luthier known for his fine hand-made flat-top, archtop, Hawaiian and resonator acoustic guitars and mandolins would select a down-market, catalog-grade instrument as inspiration for his signature electric guitar model. Yet, as rendered by Ontario-based Joe Yanuziello, the erstwhile pawnshop prize becomes a gorgeous but utilitarian work of art.

Yanuziello was born in Toronto in 1952 and grew up in an ethnically diverse urban community, a child fascinated with the hand-hewn work of his own father, a sheet metal fabricator, carpenter and house builder.

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