After his 60th birthday, Bob Benedetto wasn't content to retire and take it easy. Instead, he saw this milestone as the perfect opportunity to start a new journey; to strike out on his own once more and make guitars by himself.
Benedetto's relationship with Fender lasted seven years, and Bob said that he and the Fender family separated on very good terms. The opportunity was there for Benedetto to have his own manufacturing facility, and he felt he had to take it.
But will Bob continue making his own custom archtop guitars?
"In our new facility in Savannah, Georgia, I have set up my own personal workbench in my own corner of the building, where I will continue to make unique instruments as I always have," Benedetto said.
For fans of Benedetto's guitars, that news is certainly music to their ears.
You can read more of Just Jazz Guitar's interview with Bob Benedetto in the February 2007 issue.
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