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Today we dive into the riveting story of Jim Burns and his journey through the guitar history, a story filled with passion, innovation, craftsmanship and a not so great talent for business. Jim Burns Our Journey begins in the picturesque County Durham, England, in the year of 1925 with the birth of young Jim Bourns. Soon times would become hard, and at the age of 18, he joined the Royal Air Force, not as a pilot but as a metalworker, a craft that would be crucial to Jim's future path as a guitar maker. The second crucial craft, woodworking, was...

Function refers to the primary use of the object. In electric guitars the primary use is to allow the user to produce an amplified guitar sound. Obviously we are way beyond the basic needs of function in our days and times, and to consider that a product responds in a functional way we need to consider function in a broader sense. We need to consider the product's goal, but also the persons that will use it, and how they intend to use it. This refers to a product being adapted to its target audience, and to what this audience intends...