Al Beardsell has been playing, repairing, and generally thinking about guitars for most of the past 25-30 years. The last 15 years have seen him building them professionally for genius musicians luminous and obscure alike, from Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground, to avant-garde musician and filmmaker Henry Kaiser, from local dudes the Weakerthans, to Quebecois noise/folk fusionist Rene Lussier.
His work has recently been featured in "The Fretboard Journal" (http://www.fretboardjournal.com/features/magazine/alternate-universe) and Acoustic Guitar Magazine (link). He lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with his family, and likes to cook.
He works amid a swirling miasma of wood, dust, shavings, smells and tools, in a small, chaotic, converted garage...called the Shed.
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