Aspiring guitar builder Jukka Sollasvaara and one of his friends have built what might just be the world's heaviest acoustic guitar in a madcap experiment that swaps out tonewoods for concrete.

In Winters, California, Al Calderone has dedicated 35 years to teaching the rare craft of building acoustic guitars at his shop, ARC Guitar, and he has no plans to stop."It's the joy in my heart," ...

ALSEA, Ore. — A love for flamenco guitar brought John Shelton and Susan Farretta together during college in the mid-1960s. It was only the beginning for Shelton-Farretta Guitars. “John was always ...

PHOTOS () —By Edward OrtizMcClatchy Newspapers(MCT)SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Classical guitar builder Waylin Carpenter gets a telltale glint in his eye when he talks about guitars. The instrument looms ...

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In the eighth grade, Jeffrey Boerner made his first guitar out of construction lumber he scrounged from a nearby housing development in Chicago. At age 59, he now oversees a substantially more ...

Jonas Ceelen has been building guitars for 15 years and teaching others to do the same for seven. It’s been a quiet, mellow existence, but the business is poised to get a lot bigger as the shop brings ...