As Squier and Epiphone have upped the quality, expanding their range, so too have the likes of PRS, ESP, Jackson and more, ...
A stone’s throw from the Borough Hall subway stop in Brooklyn is a nondescript storefront whose only identifying features are a patent -application taped to the front window and a gleaming array of ...
NORTH ADAMS -- The guitar goes back centuries before Elvis and The Beatles, and since the birth of rock and roll, it has become one of the most recognizable objects in popular culture. Today, building ...
Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian has looked back on his experiences of building electric guitars, and has named the parts of the process that are the most challenging when it comes to assembling Gibson ...
BLUFFTON — It’s fair to say that Bluffton-based luthier Brooks Cobb isn’t opposed to modern, computer-aided guitar construction techniques, but that’s not the way he chooses to build the guitars that ...
At a workbench tucked into the side room of a music store, Woody James builds his namesake guitars. Dozens of necks hang from the wall. The bench is cluttered with tools. A stack of bins hold switches ...
Editor’s note: In our occasional series we call Gearing Up, we profile some of the people around town who make, repair or sell the instruments and other equipment that musicians use. Schneider might ...
At Camarillo High School, students are building electric guitars in the name of science. The STEM Guitar Project, a National Science Foundation-funded program, gets students to explore science, math ...
What does it take to become a Kickstarter success? First you need a great product. Then you need a plan for the future. Luckily, Austin-based Moniker Guitars had both. We first covered Moniker back in ...