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 ...

EL CAJON, Calif. — Earth Day 2023 is Saturday, April 22nd. The nation's biggest acoustic guitar manufacturer is celebrating its Urban Wood Initiative. In this Zevely Zone, I met a legend in El Cajon.

Big-name acoustic guitarists in the 1960s were likely using instruments with wood sourced from Hoquiam’s Posey Manufacturing Co., an Australian professor recently discovered. Professor Chris Gibson ...

Guitar manufacturers use a small volume of some of the rarest exotic woods, but have come under the most pressure to adopt sustainable practices because of their high profile. Over the past decade, ...

Making limited run guitars using reclaimed wood seems to be quite the fashion these days. Fender, Gibson and PRS have all released stunning six-string treasures recently that give players the chance ...

Richard Hoover has spent 37 years transforming rare wood into some of the world's finest guitars, and he finds his materials in very unlikely spots. He's salvaged old-growth redwood from a railroad ...

A Lewiston guitar-making company that’s well-known in the music industry is developing a boutique sawmill to produce finished parts for musical instruments, with a primary focus on red spruce.

The sounds of music found in the world's natural forests are under threat. "It's something that's always in the back of my mind and I do think about it a lot," explained the Bay Area native and guitar ...

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The package arrived as many Dan Wetzel has ordered before, a book-matched set of tonewood he would use to make an acoustic guitar. He removed the plastic film protecting the thin slices of mahogany, ...

When you think of a guitar what comes to mind? Maybe it’s a simple maple acoustic, the kind played by countless singer-songwriters over the years, or perhaps a double-necked mahogany electric, favored ...

Big-name acoustic guitarists in the 1960s were likely using instruments with wood sourced from Hoquiam’s Posey Manufacturing Co., an Australian professor recently discovered. Professor Chris Gibson ...