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Musician infuses dads ashes into his guitar - so he can be with him at future gigs
A musician has infused his dad's ashes into his favourite guitar so that 'he can still be with me' when he plays at gigs.
Mark Wood, 37, had the ashes incorporated into the neck of his silver Fender Telecaster guitar earlier this year to honour his dad, Keith, who was his "biggest fan."
Sadly Keith died aged 68 on Christmas Day 2022 after suffering a heart attack.
The guitarist came up with the idea after his sister Katy used part of the ashes as part of a ring she had made in his memory for her 40th birthday.
He floated the idea of infusing the ashes into the 10 fret inlays - the small circles on the neck of the instrument - to his good friend and guitar shop owner, Sam Orr.
And after a successful trial run on an old guitar using bone dust Sam completed the "emotional" job on Mark's instrument. "
Mark said: "My dad was not just my biggest fan he was also my best mate - he was always so supportive."
"He taught me how to play my first open chords and how to hold it correctly."
"When I started gigging he would travel all around the country to watch perform - some of the time turning up unannounced at gigs."
"The guitar now is even more precious - it is nice to know he will still be there with me at gigs."
Sam, 39, from Chester, said it was an "honour" to complete the modification to his friend's Instrument. "
He said: "Mark reached out to me and floated the idea to me in early March - he explained he wanted to know if it was possible to put his dad's ashes into the fret inlays of his guitar."
"I wasn't certain it would be but it was an honour to be asked to do such a thing and I was happy to give it a go."
Sam - who is also a musician - said he did a "little homework" trialing a few methods using bone dust before giving Mark the thumbs up."
Then on June 1 Mark travelled to Sam's shop - Sam's Guitars - for the modification.
Sam said the process took three hours - the hardest part was removing the initial fret inlays which he said were "jammed" inside. "
Once he had removed the inlays he placed a small amount - a tea spoon amount across all the holes - of the ashes into the frets - he then applied some wood glue to keep them in place.
Sam then layered some clear GluBoost glue over the top and let it set before then filing down the neck and putting it back together.
Mark said: "The whole process was emotional. "
"Sam was very caring during the whole process making sure I was okay and what he was doing with the ashes was fine with me."
"It was a really nice healing moment I got to share with my mate."
Sam then handed the finished instrument to Mark for him to test out.
Mark said: "I sat down and started noodling on it to make sure it was all okay."
"It was a surreal moment I was speechless - it hadn't quite set in what we had done."
"It is my main guitar but I now felt a deeper sense of attachment to it."
"I don't know what it was but it just felt better to play and also sounded better - I'm just very thankful for Sam for all of his help."
Mark has played in several bands including Manchester's Winterfylleth - he is currently a member of Impurist.
He said he looks forward to playing the guitar at a gig in Hull on 18 July.
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