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Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   TUNBRIDGE — It’s doubtful if, over 50 years ago when Michael Millard built his first guitar in an apartment in Brooklyn that he could project into the future to his retirement and see himself as one of America’s foremost builders of acoustic guitars. But as he winds down from his years at the helm of Froggy Bottom guitars in Tunbridge he can look back at 5,000 guitars in the hands of players and great respect from the guitar building industry. Millard’s workshop these days is a converted shed on a back road. Over the ye...

All images: Froggy Bottom Guitars There’s no shortage of manufacturers working in the realm of guitars and related equipment that purport to produce ‘custom made’ goods, to work by hand, or to craft their wares the way it was done in the good old days. Tour the Froggy Bottom workshop, however, and speak to founder Michael Millard and his partner luthiers Eric Goodenough and Andy Mueller, and you really come away with a feel for what such terms should encompass. “Most of what’s always been referred to as ‘hand-made’ in the world of guitars really stretches th...