Nickel is the one-man show behind Flyway Guitars, Alton’s own guitar-making and restoration business. Started two years prior, the DIY luthier operates his business out of his home, where he has honed ...

About twelve years ago, a group of local guitar makers came together to share information, techniques and ideas about their craft — and about their shared passion for making instruments. They call ...

OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — Seven years ago, Shawn Weimer started Zoe Guitars, a custom luthier business in Oceanside named after his infant granddaughter, Zoe. Zoe is the Greek word for “life,” which is ...

Guitar-building seems to be embedded in the DNA of the Pimentel family. Lorenzo Pimentel learned the craft from his half-brothers while growing up in Durango and Ciudad Juárez, in their native Mexico.

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 ...

Although their numbers are few, women luthiers are making their mark and providing skilled work in Israel.

At the base of the unattached wooden guitar neck, there's an inscription labeled in pencil,"9-10-15," along with Tom Shepard's initials, "TS." The date refers to when Shepard began building his latest ...

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 ...

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 ...

Graham Long had no interest in learning a musical instrument while he was growing up. "My mum always wanted me to play piano, but I was riding motorbikes and doing what kids do," he said. Decades ...

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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. FALMOUTH — Jack Kilbride says his shop is probably the only place in the ...