Bedell’s latest creation, the Lucky Strike guitar, is crafted from the wood of two extraordinary trees discovered on forest floors. The Lucky Strike features back and sides of exceptionally rare, figured Honduran mahogany and a top harvested from a storm-downed redwood named Lucky Strike,...

Tom Bedell first entered the guitar retail business as a teenager in the early Sixties, importing Japanese-made instruments and selling them throughout his native Iowa. He then took a break from the music industry that lasted more than four decades, during which time he...