PHOENIX — Jack Ward left his family and friends back home in Yorkshire, England when he moved to Phoenix to learn how to make guitars. “I’ve played guitar since I was 9,” he said. “I just want to ...

So, you want to be a luthier. Here are a few places that can get you started on the journey to making more than just a few chords. *The Chicago Luthiers Workshop offers one-on-one classes taught by ...

Kevin Burkett, a metal worker and luthier who started Electrical Guitar Company in 2004, recently announced on the company's ...

A class offered this semester through Purdue's College of Technology allows students to combine skills in engineering, woodworking and manufacturing processes to build their own customized acoustic ...

When you think of a guitar what comes to mind? Maybe it’s a simple maple acoustic, the kind played by countless singer-songwriters over the years, or perhaps a double-necked mahogany electric, favored ...

KALAMAZOO, MI --After 48 years working on guitars inside the factory walls at 225 Parsons St., Ted Beville punched his timecard for the last time. He only said it's time "to go fishing." The Heritage ...

Many moons ago I remember asking Paul Reed Smith why he didn’t use pickups made by the likes of Seymour Duncan. My thinking was that while Paul had studied and learned the guitar-making craft of the ...

Resting in its case on top of a desk at the corporate headquarters of the company that makes Gibson guitars is a technologically head-spinning model that Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz describes ...