When it comes to electric guitars, if you can dream it, Ed Snoble can build it. Snoble has taken his hobby of repairing and customizing guitars and turned it into the Penguin Guitar Company, making ...

Q: What type of business do you operate – what do you sell, or what service do you provide? A: Big Hollow Guitars builds custom acoustic guitars and other instruments. I specialize in building ...

During the 2021 holiday season, I’m setting out to find the coolest gifts in the land (Buffalo land, that is). The search for some of the coolest gifts in Buffalo led me to luthier Declan Ryan’s front ...

MALTA — For some guitarists, the search for the perfect tone is elusive, always out of reach. Some constantly buy and sell guitars, installing the latest gadgets and whatever else that has been hyped ...

In her 34 years, Maegen Wells has — twice — fallen in love at first sight. When she was 7, she picked up a nylon-string acoustic guitar for the first time and strummed along to the soundtrack of ...

Manufacturing in Jackson isn't exactly booming, but there's one small segment that is growing: hand-crafted guitars. The Jackson area has at least two custom guitar-makers. After their day jobs, both ...

At a workbench tucked into the side room of a music store, Woody James builds his namesake guitars. Dozens of necks hang from the wall. The bench is cluttered with tools. A stack of bins hold switches ...

Early last year, YouTube guitar wizard Jared Dines began a quest to find a skilled luthier who could make him a one-off 17-string guitar. After being let down by a US builder, and left seriously out ...

It was about 1970 that Stuart Mossman was opening a small factory for custom guitars in Winfield, Kan., just 182 miles from Lawrence, where Baxendale was attending the University of Kansas. He was ...

NORFOLK, Va. - The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted a lot of local businesses across Hampton Roads, as well as the local music industry. But one local guitar shop is committed to keep going, repairing ...