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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X TAYLOR – Zachary Guy combs through stacks of wood at specialty hardwood lumberyards looking for ...

At 16, a year after learning to play the guitar, Frisco resident Bevan Frost decided he wanted to design and build the instruments for a living. He was living in Germany in 1997, doing a student ...

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 ...

Matt Artinger was put on this earth to design and build some of the sweetest-sounding guitars ever crafted. And when a man figures out what he was put on this earth to do, he is fortunate indeed. A ...

During the 2021 holiday season, I’m setting out to find the coolest gifts in the land (Buffalo land, that is). The search for some of the coolest gifts in Buffalo led me to luthier Declan Ryan’s front ...

Your guitar sucks. That's pretty much the mission statement behind Zachary Guitars, a tiny outfit run by Canadian rocker Alex Csiky, whose 100% do-it-yourself ethos and fuck-the-mainstream mentality ...

ROCKLAND FOR THIS MORNING’S MAIDEN MASS. FIRST THING I DO IS DRAW IT ONTO THE BODY BLANK INSIDE HIS WORKSHOP IN ROCKLAND. GARY TAFT IS RIGHT AT HOME HANDCRAFTING HIS CUSTOM DESIGNED GUITARS RATHER ...