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 ...

Monica Esparza says she works two full-time jobs: one as the manager of distribution and accounts for her family’s drink distribution business and the other as a classical guitar maker, both in a San ...

In the eighth grade, Jeffrey Boerner made his first guitar out of construction lumber he scrounged from a nearby housing development in Chicago. At age 59, he now oversees a substantially more ...

PHOTOS () —By Edward OrtizMcClatchy Newspapers(MCT)SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Classical guitar builder Waylin Carpenter gets a telltale glint in his eye when he talks about guitars. The instrument looms ...

Is the tone really in the wood, and do old guitars really sound better because the wood has dried out? The answers are yes and no. Contrary to popular belief, the seasoned wood used for guitar ...

If there’s such a thing as a celebrity in the world of classical guitar making, a laid-back South Australian can lay claim to the title. Jim Redgate made his first guitar in the kitchen of a rented ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In this essential guide to British guitar making, Acoustic magazine discusses the importance of ...

ACOUSTIC WEEK: "I'm not like other guitar players," Jose Feliciano says, stating the kind of truism that is likely to elicit a "no kidding" response from even the most casual music fan. But it's one ...

There’s something deeply compelling about the look, the feel and the sound of an acoustic guitar. It might come from hearing notes and chords ring out as its strings are played; it might emerge from ...