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“I’ll do everything I can to make this guitar sing again and honor its story”: Ukrainian luthier restoring Gibson Les Paul that had been burned by Russian drone strike

A Ukrainian guitarist has undertaken a huge repair job to revive a Gibson Les Paul that was left completely charred after a Russian drone hit her hometown of Kyiv.

The guitar, nicknamed Vlad, is being resurrected by guitar repair YouTuber Tanya Shpachuk, who sees the sizable task as an act of defiance amid the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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