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We Build (and Test) the Ultimate T-Style Guitar for Broadway Nashville Gigs

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Bohlinger Builds and Tests the Ultimate "Broadway" Telecaster for Downtown Nashville
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By Chris Kies,
Chris Kies
Chris Kies has degrees in Journalism and History from the University of Iowa and has been with PG dating back to his days as an intern in 2007. He's now the multimedia manager maintaining the website and social media accounts, coordinating Rig Rundown shoots (also hosting and/or filming them) and occasionally writing an artist feature. Other than that, he enjoys non-guitar-related hobbies.
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John Bohlinger,
John Bohlinger
John Bohlinger is a Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist best known for leading the band on NBC's Nashville Star, serving as music director for the CMT Awards and specials on PBS and GAC, and of course for his appearances in PG Rig Rundown, Review Demo, Axes & Artifacts, and What Bohlinger Plays videos.
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Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson
Scale Model Guitars founder Dave Johnson was born and raised in Peoria, IL. Mostly self-taught from working in various music stores early in his career, in 2009 Dave moved to Nashville and worked in the Gruhn Guitars repair department until early 2014 and as an in-house repair tech at Carter Vintage Guitars. Highly skilled in vintage repair and with over twenty years of experience, he is quickly earning a reputation as one of the most trusted names in town. Find his work at scalemodelguitars.com.
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Jun 28, 2024

After the success of wiring up the dream stomp station for gigging in Music City, PG's video crew work with Scale Model Guitars' luthier Dave Johnson to construct a T-style partscaster with parts from StewMac, Lollar, Gotoh, VegaTrem, Hipshot, Gator, Art of Tone, and others. And afterwards John Bohlinger takes downtown to Layla's to test it out

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