b'John Renbourns eleven-stringIn 1977 or so I made this Prosperodone. He hasnt seen it yet. Nothe mistake of telling him that I have 12 string. Now it has eleven strings,doubt Ill get an email over the nextstarted having helicopter-flying and I didnt just cut one off. few days, followed by a cheeky facelessons, and now he wants me to I made it for John Renbourn andround the edge of the door. Thenfly him to gigs. I just need to make a he later had extra inlay put in it bymaybe a YouTube clip of him playingfew thousand more guitars first.Chris Ayliffe, Im not sure why, andit. That would be good. John? That is what I wrote about two years Im not sure of the relevance of theJohn is a hero to me, and to manyago. We saw John one more time pig, rabbits eagles etc. Nice though.musicians. He owns a lot of guitars,when he dropped in to give me a The engraving is exceptional, andgoing back to before I was takingbottle of Malt. He was very quiet, we had to be very careful not to loseit seriously, and it is only recentlyand we later found out that he had too much of it during the neck resetthat I have been able to show himheard some very sad news. It wasnt and refret. John wanted the guitarsix string guitars, as he now liveslong after that we heard he had died. modified to replicate the workingsreasonably near. He has been a littleSuch a loss, we all miss him.of a renaissance Bandorra, tunedreluctant to let go of one or two, so DGCFADG, so that is what we haveI have hopes for the future. I made 273'