About twelve years ago, a group of local guitar makers came together to share information, techniques and ideas about their craft — and about their shared passion for making instruments. They call ...

OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — Seven years ago, Shawn Weimer started Zoe Guitars, a custom luthier business in Oceanside named after his infant granddaughter, Zoe. Zoe is the Greek word for “life,” which is ...

NORTH ADAMS -- The guitar goes back centuries before Elvis and The Beatles, and since the birth of rock and roll, it has become one of the most recognizable objects in popular culture. Today, building ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: In our occasional series we call Gearing Up, we profile some of the people around town who make, repair or sell the instruments and other equipment that musicians use. Schneider might ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. FALMOUTH — Jack Kilbride says his shop is probably the only place in the ...

Chris Brinson knew the old stage at New Brookland Tavern well. He grew up in Lexington and spent time playing in area bands. And, like pretty much every local musician who came up in the Midlands ...

About nine years ago, a group of local guitar makers came together to share information, techniques and ideas about their craft — and about their shared passion for making instruments. They call ...