Three years ago, on a fateful Christmas morning, Greg Hembree received a book from his sister on how to make guitars out of cigar boxes. He'd been a fan of woodworking for over a decade and a fan of ...

Since the seventies, New Yorker Rick Kelly has been making guitars from the “bones of old New York.” Handmade guitars on display at Carmine Street Guitars in the West Village were crafted from wood ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The Merriam-Webster dictionary lists Luthier as “one who makes stringed musical instruments (such as violins or guitars)” It’s a specialized skill that has been around for ...

One of the benefits of the web is that you can eschew traditional models of distribution and talk to your customer one-on-one. In what I consider a first for ecommerce, guitar makers MacKenzie & Marr ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If there’s one thing the history of rock music has shown, it’s that you don’t need to have fancy gear. Artists such as Kurt Cobain created some of their best ...

A Manchester startup that aims to mass produce highly customizable guitars has turned to Kickstarter to help get its idea off the ground. Orphanage Guitars are custom, carved-top electric guitars that ...

Justin Kennedy's passion for guitars began in childhood and led to a career as a guitar tech, including touring with Cincinnati band Walk the Moon. At his custom guitar shop, the guitar-building ...