I teamed up with Mat Best to create one of my wildest builds yet—a fully playable guitar made from spent bullets and epoxy.

When master luthier John Monteleone begins work on a new guitar, he said the materials — thick boards of maple, spruce and exotic hardwood like Hawaiian koa and Brazilian rosewood — speak to him. “I ...

A fascinating bit of Riverside history came to me completely out of the blue a while back, thanks to Doug Barrie of the We Grew Up in Riverside CA in the 50s and 60s Facebook page. Author and ...

Anyone who’s ever played guitar to at least the skill level required to form a terrible garage band knows the names of the most legendary guitars. The driving sound of the Gibson Les Paul played by ...

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, ...

Fifty years ago, Bart Wittrock hated the Gibson Firebird he’d bought in Guam, so another music-inclined serviceman offered him a trade: a ’50s Les Paul. Wittrock took the deal. “Everything but the ...

It looks like a guitar. It plays like a guitar. But there’s something missing - the strings. If you’ve ever tried learning guitar, you know the struggle: sore fingers, endless tuning, and the ...