BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — “One day, Prince walked in... and the rest is history."

History — that for Dave Rusan — is still in the making.

“He could have turned out to hate it,“ Rusan said about creating Prince's iconic Cloud guitar. “I remember thinking at the time, 'I'm going to make it so I like it — and hope we got the same taste.”

From its frets down the fingerboard to the body and bridge, Rusan's more-than-four-decade-old blueprints — for the Purple Prince — now serve as more of a tribute to the six-string that made both men stars.

“I've fallen in love with what a graceful curve looks like," Rusan said. "In fact, you know, I think I've refined them just a tiny bit while keeping them authentic.

"They all look almost totally identical, you know, for being hand-carved."

As the stage

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