“To somebody else, it’s just some wood glued together,” Freeman Vines, 80, said. “To me, it’s something else.” Credit... Supported by Text by Joshua Needelman Photographs and Video by Sasha Arutyunova ...

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 ...

I’m part of a team of professors and high school teachers around the country that encourages high schools to teach kids to build guitars as a way of making science, technology, engineering and math ...