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As a luthier, he spends from 150 to 200 hours making each guitar. âIt all depends on the level of detail and decoration that a person wants,â Dease said. âCertain models require additional bending of the wood.â He has completed his 19th guitar and is working on Nos. 20-24. Dease lives in Advance with his wife, Jamie, and their infant daughter. He has been a pastor at Macedonia Moravian Church since 2016. He started building guitars in 2014, a few years after inheriting a workshop of machinery and tools when his maternal grandfather, Everette Edwards, died in 2008. The shop machinery, hand tools, clamps and some toolboxes were a gift from his grandmother, Ethelene Edwards of Winston-Salem. ....