Hanging Tree Guitars: The Wood’s ‘Not Good, Not Bad, Not Ugly — Just Strange’

Freeman Vines and his guitars in 2015.

Freeman Vines is an African American luthier who creates what have been called “contemporary art sculptures hidden as guitars” out of old wood, some of it from a tree used for a lynching.

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Freeman Vines is an African American luthier who creates what have been called “contemporary art sculptures hidden as guitars” out of old wood, some of it from a tree used for a lynching.