The back-end of Gladesville Guitar Factory looks like the staff section of any other music store: old desks, computers, paperwork, a few aging photos, and stacks upon stacks of guitars and parts, all precariously perched around each other. It’s a kind of organised chaos that only makes sense to the people working there, and that’s the way a good guitar store should be. But amongst it all, tucked away on a shelf high above the ground, is a little piece of gold that belongs to longtime store owner, Paul Chalker.
“My most cherished guitar is a ‘62 Epiphone Texan,” he says, casually gesturing towards the rare six-string. “It’s the guitar I learned to play on from 1962, when Gibson had Epiphone.” It isn’t long before he grabs a step-ladder, pulls…
