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Originally Posted by steveh
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I was told that Claxton and Traugott worked for Santa Cruz back in the day and when they set up as sole luthiers, their workshops were very close indeed. That might suggest some common DNA.
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Jeff definitely worked for Santa Cruz - he's one of the designers of the FS (which looks a lot like a Traugott). Not so sure about Ed. Ed was building long before he moved to CA, back in Austin. He was already pretty established while in Texas - Jimmy Buffet was an early Claxton owner - so maybe he did something with Santa Cruz when he moved to CA, but I haven't heard that explicitly. There's a whole community of builders in Santa Cruz and there are lots of interconnections.
Jeff and Ed do have shop locations just a few doors away from each other, tho Ed only does heavy/dirty work at that location now, and has switched to doing most of his work in a beautiful shop at his house for a while now.
There was a really nice article on Ed in the fretboard journal not too long ago (you get a few small glimpses of his "at home" workshop):
https://www.fretboardjournal.com/col...axton-guitars/