Left, file photo of Taylor Swift right, file photo of Phoebe Bridgers (Joel C Ryan/ Associated Press/Ilya S. Savenok For Tibet House, TNS) Left, file photo of Taylor Swift right, file photo of Phoebe Bridgers (Joel C Ryan/ Associated Press/Ilya S. Savenok For Tibet House, TNS)īut a lucky handful of these forgotten hollow wooden vessels are somehow rescued from the flotsam of flea markets and swap meets and placed in the hands of one man, luthier Reuben Cox, who fulfills their ultimate destiny.Ĭox works his brand of magic in their refurbishment and sends his creations back out into the world, new again - sounding different, feeling different - to make the tracks we love. So how does he do it? ‘I’ll start very small’Ĭox’s story is as unlikely as the instruments he somehow wills back to life and into the hands of the most talented on the planet. Raised in a log cabin in the North Carolina woods, Cox got into a science and math-focused public boarding school in nearby Durham as a teen, only to decide that math and science weren’t his jam. Instead, he found himself living in the school’s darkroom and wood shop. Guitarmaker Reuben Cox talks about the inspirations behind his custom creations at Old Style Guitar Shop in Los Angeles. “I was a terribly shy kid and I always did well in school because I was terrified by being called on by the teacher,” he told SFGATE during a recent sit-down in his store, Old Style Guitar Shop, a whitewashed converted single-story bungalow with black trim on the edge of LA’s Silver Lake neighborhood.

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