Jeffrey Elliott believes there are two kinds of guitar-makers: technical and intuitive. He places himself in the latter category. “Any time I was on the fence about something and I did the thing that ...

Rob Pope reached through the sound hole of a vintage acoustic guitar to install a sophisticated amplification system by feel deep inside the cavernous body, much like building a wooden ship in a ...

Acclaimed luthier Steve Grimes is about to hold a major celebration, “The One Grand Party,” at the King Kamehameha Golf Club’s Waikapu Ballroom on Feb. 29. Celebrating the release of his 1,000th ...

If you attended a Hollywood Bowl concert between 1981 and 2013, the bench you sat on might now be part of a high-end Fender guitar. Your spilt beer, sweat and even tears from that fondly remembered ...

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.

In the late 1960s, bluegrass musician and master luthier David Harvey’s family moved from East Dayton to Parkside Homes. Now, it is mostly ballfields — but at the time, it was a close-knit ...