Aspiring guitar builder Jukka Sollasvaara and one of his friends have built what might just be the world’s heaviest acoustic guitar in a madcap experiment that swaps out tonewoods for concrete.

From the carefully handcrafted Indian rosewood guitar to the depth and texture of mahogany and redwood, The Luthier’s Cooperative’s sweet-sounding guitars appeal to traditional tastes as well as ...

Aug. 19—It's not surprising that a national specialty publication like Vintage Guitar magazine would be attracted by a legendary guitar town like Bakersfield, and a local story about Bakersfield's own ...

Lincoln has lost one of its finest craftsman. Ironically, Bill Hollenbeck’s skills were probably better known on the national scope than they were in his own backyard. He was a luthier, a highly ...

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When a 9-year-old Neil Smith got his first guitar - a secondhand Danelectro - he didn't play it immediately. Instead, he took it apart. "I used to get myself into so much hot water. I took everything ...

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POINT AU ROCHE — Scott Hanley had always wanted to learn to play a six-string guitar. But he injured a hand in a fall at his job as a correction officer and so had to get creative, instead. Hanley ...

Manufacturing in Jackson isn't exactly booming, but there's one small segment that is growing: hand-crafted guitars. The Jackson area has at least two custom guitar-makers. After their day jobs, both ...

CORRECTION 6/18/25: A previous version of this article used a headline that incorrectly described Tom Lieber as a co-designer of Jerry Garcia's Wolf guitar, when the original sole designer and builder ...