Wayne
Henderson lives in the tiny Virginia community of Rugby,
just over the state line from Ashe County. He's been
playing guitars since he was 5 and making them since
he was 14. In fact, he's even made a guitar for Eric
Clapton.
His
inspiration for making guitars came from renowned fiddle
maker Albert Hash, who lived just over the ridge and
was featured in the original series of Folkways.
While
he admired the flat picking style of Doc Watson, who
lives on the other side of the state line in North Carolina,
Wayne developed his own unique style of finger picking,
which he demonstrates in The Guitar.
Wayne's guitars are finely crafted instruments that
he makes to order; each one is created with a particular
tone and sound according to the new owner's requests.
