In this video, I share my experience building a guitar primarily from reclaimed wood, including pieces from an old piano. The ...

EAST COUNTYEAST COUNTY — With the nimble fingers of a surgeon, Rockne O’Brien glued kerfing around the curves of the guitar frame on the table in front of him, affixing the slim strips with wood ...

PHOENIX — Jack Ward left his family and friends back home in Yorkshire, England when he moved to Phoenix to learn how to make guitars. “I’ve played guitar since I was 9,” he said. “I just want to ...

Matt Artinger was put on this earth to design and build some of the sweetest-sounding guitars ever crafted. And when a man figures out what he was put on this earth to do, he is fortunate indeed. A ...

Many moons ago I remember asking Paul Reed Smith why he didn’t use pickups made by the likes of Seymour Duncan. My thinking was that while Paul had studied and learned the guitar-making craft of the ...

The Kaizen – which Abasi designed in collaboration with Ernie Ball Music Man – looks to drag guitar design into a bold new future ...

Guitar noise-making rises in layers: First you learn chords, strums, a little fingerpicking. You plug in. You turn it up. When you strive for that extra push over the cliff not even 11 can bring, you ...

When you think of a guitar what comes to mind? Maybe it’s a simple maple acoustic, the kind played by countless singer-songwriters over the years, or perhaps a double-necked mahogany electric, favored ...

Brothers [Armand] and [Victor] took their acoustic guitar to the next level, making their own pickups to turn it into an electric guitar. The result is that awesome electric guitar sound. The pickups ...