SAN DIEGO — Students at De Portolla Middle School are turning piles of parts into musical masterpieces as part of an innovative technology program that teaches engineering skills through guitar ...

When David Browning was a boy, his father's workshop was a shared universe -- a place where father and son could connect over tools that had heft and purpose. They built a dune buggy together when ...

Discover the entire step-by-step process of building a fully functional electric guitar from corrugated cardboard. From cutting uniform strips and layering pieces to shaping the guitar body and neck, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- In this week's Finding Minnesota, we meet a Minneapolis man who is making sure musicians around the world are staying in tune. Tim Reede's specialty is custom guitars. "It can be ...

Justin Kennedy's passion for guitars began in childhood and led to a career as a guitar tech, including touring with Cincinnati band Walk the Moon. At his custom guitar shop, the guitar-building ...

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 ...

For the price of a Martin, produced in some far-away factory by anonymous hands, you could instead have a Sisson, made in Camp Washington by the man himself. Chris Sisson is the proprietor of ...

He’s got an axe to grind. A Bay Ridgite descended from Norwegian woodworkers builds one-of-a-kind guitars in his Sixth Avenue basement using a mix of old- and new-school skills. Scandinavians notched ...

ALSEA, Ore. (AP) — A love for flamenco guitar brought John Shelton and Susan Farretta together during college in the mid-1960s. It was only the beginning for Shelton-Farretta Guitars. "John was always ...

Tony Leicht started playing bass guitar when he was 6, then switched to electric guitar a couple of years later after being inspired by the 1976 album Frampton Comes Alive! He started performing with ...

Trevor Woodland had a practical reason for taking up the bass guitar as a middle school student on Vancouver Island. "Basically, they needed someone to play bass guitar, and I was the only one big ...