The first guitar to emerge from Fender’s Corona, California Custom Shop is the Altadena Telecaster. Its body is carved from ...

But when John Koeninger picks up a guitar, his brain goes into overdrive. Gears turning, he’s analyzing tension, vibration, ...

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 ...

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

Ed Snoble has been custom-building guitars and repairing guitars, banjos and other stringed instruments for the last 30 years. Oh, and he also loves a good cup of coffee. Combine the three and you’ll ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Expert DIYer April Wilkerson builds a custom guitar body using bowtie joinery for added strength and aesthetics.