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always tried to pick up on it, and my family is very musical,
but I never caught on when I was younger,” he says. “But, my
love for building keeps me designing and making new ones.”
Warner began building guitars after reaching out to Michael
Breedlove of MGB Guitars in Tampa. Breedlove is a distributor
for guitar parts and helped Warner as a mentor of sorts.
Breedlove liked the guitars Warner was building and
helped him get two of the guitars into the National Blues
Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, a nonprofit that explores and
preserves the historic significance of the genre.
The first guitar of Warner’s to make it into the museum
was his “D-Day Guitar,” which he created in honor of the
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JEFF WARNER
Age: 34
Lives in: Lakewood Park
Family: Fiancée, Michelle
Anzola
Occupation: Boat restoration
and repair
Education: Associate of science
degree in aquaculture, Indian
River State College
Hobbies: Fishing, boating and guitar building
Who inspires you: Friends and family
Something people don’t know about me: “As a child
I had a speech impediment and I sounded like Elmer
Fudd. Eventually, I overcame it. No one knows I used
to be hunting ‘wabbit’!”
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Warner, who is usually working on several instruments at a time, holds a
wood and epoxy guitar body that is currently in progress.