CONCRETE, Wash. – While some companies look ahead only as far as the next quarterly financial statement, Pacific Rim Tonewoods has embarked on a business plan involving figured maple wood that won’t ...

CONCRETE, Wash. – In a town best known for its long-gone concrete plant, some music lovers are hoping to make Concrete better known for something much softer: wood. More specifically, residents hope ...

Oregon Corrections Enterprises surprised Peter Courtney on Friday with a custom Prison Blues electric guitar made from a 150-year-old maple that fell on the State Capitol grounds during the 2021 ice ...

“What happens when a guitar has a soul of its own?” narrator Fred Savage wonders in the new podcast Sugar Maple, a dramatic fictional account of a guitar that’s passed from musician to musician with ...

“This project is not simple and it is not safe,” admits Burls Art, whose latest project involves taking flame to a maple blank, using epoxy and copper to make an electric guitar, but then the YouTube ...

While the violin maker gets most of the acclaim and prestige for turning lumber into musical instruments, you can’t deny the sheer beauty and grandeur of a jazz-style archtop guitar. Much larger than ...