Guitars for Heroes

Website: www.guitarsforheroes.com

I’ve made a hobby of building guitars. It started some years ago when I was recording my first album and chasing a particular sound that I couldn’t get out of my store-bought Strat. I could hear the sound in my head, so I proceeded to follow that sound through my hands and created what I now call the “Red Stra-Tele”: Strat body, Tele and Strat pickups, maple Fender “C” neck and a red body paint that I found in the Home Depot house paint department. The hobby soon became a passion, and now, many years down the line, I have more guitars than I can play.

So, in conjunction with my good friends at Ft. Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, GA, and partnering with the USO, I created “Guitars for Heroes”. The idea is to get guitars into the hands of deserving service families.

Below are some pictures of just a few of the guitars and other instruments that I either created or collected and that now have been donated to the GFH Foundation. I’m quite sure they’re in good hands now. As it should be.

For more information, visit the website: www.guitarsforheroes.com, or you can email me at: email4gregsmith@gmail.com

Play on!