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In reply to the discussion: This guy built a guitar out of a shelf during lockdown! [View all]DFW
(54,051 posts)Boo Podunavac. His name, pronounced "Paw-doo-NAH-vats," just means "south of the Danube," which his home town of Novi Sad indeed is.
I met him in February of 1977, when he still had his studio in Escondido, California. I had him build me various instruments over the years, and this matching pair was the last commission work he did for me. I recently bought an experimental "owl" 12 string of which he made three back in 1979. One went to Peter Lang, one went to Leo Kottke, and one went to some non-prominent player. Leo's instrument landed in an auction by Heritage in Dallas earlier this year, and I ended up buying it. I found out later that I was lucky, because another guy would have paid more for it that I wanted to, but his computer froze during the live auction, and so my bid ended up winning it.
Here is Boo:
And here is the "owl:"