Mac Sumner, of Mount Airy, N.C., help on through bidding that went up to the very end of last year for a Wayne Henderson custom guitar. Sumner's winning bid for one of the prized guitars? $21,200.

With help from a Boker penknife, a Southwest Virginian makes Appalachian spruce trees sing. Photographer Shawn Poynter soaks up the world-class luthier’s workshop. Wayne Henderson lives in a town with ...

MARION, Va. - Tears welled up in Catherine Schrenker's eyes as saws blared and guitars came to life. It wasn't all the sawdust at "The Henderson" that made Schrenker cry. Nope, it was just the simple ...

WAYNE Henderson pieced together his first guitar when he was only 12. Some 35 years and a couple of hundred guitars later, he got an order to build one for Eric Clapton – even though he’d didn’t know ...

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MARION, Va. - Tears welled up in Catherine Schrenker's eyes as saws blared and guitars came to life. It wasn't all the sawdust at "The Henderson" that made Schrenker cry. Nope, it was just the simple ...