b'Roger Bucknalls story is a mix of science,become my friends, and my attempts to satisfy craftsmanship, literature and romanticism astheir requests. Some of them were my teenage well as a love of music. All of these elements haveheroes, and they went on to spend holidays influenced Rogers instruments and their uniquewith us, sit in our garden and drink my whisky. sound. He is a rare combination of romanticMaking guitars for them and listening to them and engineer. Perhaps this is the key, he bringsplay has been a big part of my reason for together science and soul and turns raw pieces ofexistence. They are an essential part of this story. wood into exquisite musical instruments.Every year sees another one or two of them Who wrote that? It wasnt me. I am very awareleave us. I have been incredibly lucky to of the need to blow my own trumpet, and I canmeet and befriend so many, and now I am do it on occasion, but it isnt easy, so I just have tomeeting, and befriending a whole new hope that somewhere out there, people do realisegeneration. We all pay tribute to those who why I do what I do, and how hard I try.went before. This book is a history of my time with guitarThis is, in effect, the third edition of the making and occasional adventures in otherbook, and has become rather too large to directions. The story cannot be told in one longprint at a reasonable cost, so by making sequence, there are too many strands to it. I haveit available online, it need never be out of written a top line of history, and a bottom lineprint again, and can be read by anybody. running with it to include as much as possibleAlso, being an eBook, there is less restriction about the individuals and events that have madeon space, it contains a whole new section important contributions. The bottom line alsoon the workshop and the way we work, lots attempts to show the development of the guitarsmore pictures of custom made guitars, new over the last forty or more years. The storyartists, and updates to the story that might includes explanations of things that shaped andhave stopped in 2016, but didnt.changed it, because it could have been different,I was quite pleased with the first edition. and I want the history to be clear.The second edition contained so much more, The whole idea is the brainchild of Mikeand every month that goes by adds another English, who is also responsible for most ofinstrument to the list and another artist to the photography, newsletter and websitetalk about. This time, in the third edition, we construction that have helped people becomecan add those to the book at intervals and aware of what I do with my time. A large partinstantly make them available, if only I can of the book is about the musicians who havefind the time.Roger Bucknall MBE BSc August 2020 5'