“You’d have a job spotting the repair,” said luthier Alex Potter of A.S. Potter Instruments. “I had to dip into my storeroom of damaged antique furniture to find a bit of appropriately color-aged mahogany to patch it up with,” he said.
Potter had postponed our interview due to an emergency repair on a musician’s guitar that had been “smashed by an airline.” The guitar’s owner, who remains a mystery, was headlining that weekend at “a rather large show at a high-profile London venue,” Potter said.
