{"id":44,"date":"2018-10-06T03:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T03:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2023-04-08T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T18:00:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Forbes<br \/>\nRegina, SK<\/p>\n<p><strong>I have been<\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">&nbsp;tinkering with guitars since I was a teenager.&nbsp; I have played for many years and always wanted to know more about the instrument itself.&nbsp; In 2009, I enrolled in a builder course at Timeless Instruments with Master Luthier David Freeman.&nbsp;<\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-61\" src=\"http:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100_2204-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100_2204-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100_2204-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100_2204-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100_2204-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100_2204-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bftslogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"66\"><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">I later returned to become certified as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeiten.com\/\">Buzz Feiten<\/a> certified installer for all strin<\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">ged instruments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\"><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\"><\/strong>When I lived and worked in Meadow Lake, SK, I had enough&nbsp;space to work on building guitars.&nbsp; Since relocating to Regina in 2013 I have focused more on set-ups, minor repairs, and installations due to limitations in work space and a lack of a controlled building environment\/climate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-60\" src=\"http:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100_2627-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100_2627-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100_2627-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100_2627-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100_2627-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/100_2627-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darren Forbes Regina, SK I have been&nbsp;tinkering with guitars since I was a teenager.&nbsp; I have played for many years and always wanted to know more about the instrument itself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesguitars.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}