Dino Muradian
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About
the Artist
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Regarded
by many as the world's leading pyrographer, Dumitru Muradian was born
in Romania in 1953. Dino, as he is known to his friends, has for a few
years been doing custom pyrographs on the wood body of electric guitars.
Besides private works on commission, he has done guitars for Fender,
Gibson, Jackson, and ESP-USA Guitars. Gibson Guitars commissioned him
to do a special guitar for B. B. King for his seventieth birthday. They
presented him with "Lucille #17" bearing a portrait pyrograph
of himself (with an earlier "Lucille"). Shortly
after, when B. B. was making the rounds of shows such as Good Morning
America to promote his new autobiography, he proudly showed off his
Lucille #17, and Dino had the pleasure of seeing his pyrography on national
TV.
Dino has been woodburning since 1965 during his years in Romania. He left Romania in 1983 and, after spending five months in a refugee camp in Austria, he eventually achieved his life-long dream to live in the U.S.A. He has developed many techniques unique to himself. |
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