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Life With Strings Attached

When Life Tests the Maker | Simon Padalka

· 55 min · Episode 122

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Today's guest is luthier and architect Simon Padalka, a guitar maker with few peers. In this conversation, we talk about the dramatic events that unfolded at the end of the 2025 Boutique Guitar Showcase enTour season, when the Padalka guitar that sold on tour was caught in a truck fire in Phoenix, Arizona. Thought lost, then to everyone's surprise, the guitar popped up again for sale a few weeks later, thickening an already unusual plot. We talk about how to handle the tough situations that...

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