BUILDER PROFILE
[ NATE’S RELIC GUITARS | Doug Doppler ]
A few months back I came across a relicked you. Tell us about the life changing event that a good while. I completed cardio rehab and
Squier led up to this? made a full recovery.
curiously poured into this instrument. I use the [Nate] I suffered a massive heart attack while [WM] So when did you actually start
word curiously because the kind of work that at home with my wife. I ended up on the kitchen relicking guitars?
went into this instrument is usually reserved for floor and my wife performed CPR until the guitars at a much higher price point. I reached paramedics arrived. I was flown to Piedmont [Nate] While I was recovering I started
out to the seller and he told me he bought it Hospital in Atlanta for emergency heart surgery. relicking guitars in my basement woodworking
on eBay and gave me the name of the seller – 100% blockage in one artery and 70% in the shop. I was working construction before my
Nate’s Relic Guitars. I reached out to Nate, and other. Surgery (stints) was a success and I was heart attack, was a woodworker since I was a
his story is as touching as that of the guitars he induced into a coma for 3 days so my heart kid, and as a musician was well versed in guitar
brings back to life. could heal. Doctors said it was a miracle that repair and setup. It was a good fit. I slowly
I survived this ‘widow maker’ type heart attack started selling the relic guitars on eBay, and
[WM] Like the guitars you work on, this especially when I was revived several times in as I got stronger started doing them fulltime.
business has been a new lease on life for the ambulance and was without oxygen for When the doctors cleared me to go back to
44 January 2018
Telecaster
on
Craiglist
and
was
fascinated at the craftsmanship that had been
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