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 ...

DIYer and woodworker April Wilkerson builds a custom guitar body as part of a woodworking project.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this video, a custom guitar is built for a son who has started taking lessons, featuring an ocean-themed design. The project is accomplished with the help of a friend, Sam from DIY Huntress. #DIY ...

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 ...

FRANKLIN – The "aha! moment" for Bill Warmoth was realizing that Middle Tennessee, with its plethora of guitar stores, didn't have a single shop offering only handmade guitars. In Music City, Martin, ...

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 ...