EAST COUNTYEAST COUNTY — With the nimble fingers of a surgeon, Rockne O’Brien glued kerfing around the curves of the guitar frame on the table in front of him, affixing the slim strips with wood ...

This fire and epoxy guitar project explores an experimental finishing technique used in custom guitar building. See how heat ...

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 ...

This project shows how a guitar pick, or plectrum, can be crafted from parts of old guitars using precise shaping and ...

A local rock musician is building on his passion by not only in playing the guitar, but also in making a custom versions of ...

NASHVILLE — A scant eight weeks after Ron Volbrecht got his first guitar for his 16th birthday, he played his first gig.The band was composed mostly of his football buddies from Morton High School in ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. (Nov. 9, 2010) -- For the past 19 years, Capt. Chad Ryg of the 3rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) has considered playing the guitar to be one of his favorite pastimes. Ryg, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. — Kent Barcus said he couldn’t afford to buy the kind of quality guitar he wanted. So he decided to build one. Then he built another. Then nine more. Barcus, 63, has always enjoyed ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University will offer two separate workshops this summer for those interested in making their own electric guitars. The High School Guitar Workshop will be held June ...