Bring a box full of parts into Nicole Alosinac’s workshop in East Vancouver and she’ll turn it into a guitar.

The talented instrument repair artist was once tasked with returning a shattered Les Paul guitar to working order. She guesses that it was in about 80 different pieces when the heartbroken client brought her the guitar in a bag.

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Building the perfect banjo: Pharis and Jason Romero inspired by B.C.’s Cariboo region

“That was a