Using reclaimed wood from vacant buildings, Wallace Detroit Guitars turns the city’s history into music-making works of art. If there’s one thing Detroit natives take pride in, it’s their city’s ...

Since the seventies, New Yorker Rick Kelly has been making guitars from the “bones of old New York.” Handmade guitars on display at Carmine Street Guitars in the West Village were crafted from wood ...

What does a company do when it retrieves government-confiscated building materials? If that company is Gibson Guitar Corp., it makes guitars from it. Late last year, the 120-year-old Nashville music ...

Discover how leftover and reclaimed wood becomes a fully playable, tiny headless guitar. This project combines sustainability, design, and craftsmanship for an instrument you’ll want to see (and hear) ...

Some of the biggest names in music have joined the movement to ensure their guitars and other instruments are made from sustainable, legally harvested wood. Pledging to buy only instruments made from ...

Another afternoon finds Matt Zimbelman geeking out over wood. In the humidity-controlled basement of his Colorado Springs home, he’s pulling one slab and block after another off the shelves, all of ...

No matter how good the tone of modern materials such as Flaxwood and Arium are claimed to be, some players will simply not entertain owning a guitar unless it's made from vintage wood. Fender has soft ...

PRS electric guitars are widely praised for their form and function, boasting unparalleled build quality and surgical-level precision, as well as elegant aesthetics that are headed up by some truly ...

According to many musicians, in order to have the best sound possible, an acoustic guitar has to be made from the "right" type of wood. Unfortunately, such wood often comes from endangered, ...