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Daughter joins famous guitar maker dad

RUGBY As she was starting a career in environmental law, Jayne Henderson struck upon what seemed a good idea for paying off some of her law-school loans: She would ask her father to build one of his highly coveted guitars that she could, in turn, sell.


Her father, Wayne Henderson, had an even better idea.

“That’s fine,” she remembers him telling her, “but you have to make it.”

So, under his guidance, she did. She wound up with an extremely well-made guitar and a personal discovery about the process.

“It turns out, I loved it more than environmental law,” she said.

Going on three years later, Henderson, 29, has moved from the law into the meticulous (and dusty) world of instrument-making — of sawing, sanding and intricately carved pearl inlays. She is making guitars and ukuleles — and a name for herself. In that regard she has a distinct advantage in that her name carries considerable clout in the music world.

“The main reason I like it is that I get to hang out with my dad, and I’ve never really gotten to do that,”

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