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 ...

At the end of the day, all it takes to make a guitar go to eleven is a new knob. Making the knob is another thing — that takes a shop full of machine tools, the expertise to use them, and a whole ...

When you think of a guitar what comes to mind? Maybe it’s a simple maple acoustic, the kind played by countless singer-songwriters over the years, or perhaps a double-necked mahogany electric, favored ...

They didn’t really have a choice. After Huntsville couple Danny and Susan Davis decided to shut-down the music venue component at Tangled String Studios in July 2020 amid the pandemic’s devastating ...

Many moons ago I remember asking Paul Reed Smith why he didn’t use pickups made by the likes of Seymour Duncan. My thinking was that while Paul had studied and learned the guitar-making craft of the ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Joshua Needelman is a special projects reporter for The New York Times. He is a Long Island native and a graduate of the University of Maryland who has worked for The Washington Post, ...