Swamp ash is a wood prized by guitar makers and musicians for its light weight and resonant sound. But flooding, and a tiny bug, threaten the wood and the sound that is synonymous with rock music.

How Josh Scott of JHS Pedals Became the Guitar Pedal World's Leading Historian Japanese guitar culture is, was, and always will be a beast of its own — often dwarfing anywhere else in the world, ...

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YouTuber Burls Art and his guitar build videos have a very zen-like quality. In his latest video, we get another 12-minute hit of chill-out vibes as Burls builds an acoustic guitar out of carbon fiber ...

Everybody prepare yourselves for sensorial delight of the eyes and ears, because brilliant artist and YouTuber Burls Art has made a guitar out of 800 sheets of paper and it sounds—to the untrained ear ...

Wood. Specifically, certain types of tone woods; woods that impart a certain tone. That’s what guitars are made of. And occasionally, plastic, or metal, or fibreglass or, well, anything.

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