What can you say about the Fender Custom Shop and its Master Builders? Well, we can probably agree that they kick out some of the best guitars on the planet. Fender Custom Shop guitars are some of the ...

Fender's Master Built electric guitars are always worth players' attention the Custom Shop team have really pushed the boat out here to benefit Live Nation's Crew Nation appeal – a global relief fund ...

When you’re in the business of making guitars and find your instruments in the hands of Eric Clapton, Joe Walsh and Bob Dylan, you’ve got to be doing something right. That’s clearly the case with ...

In a small shop, the aroma of fine woods smells Old World, and custom acoustic guitars rise from the hands of two unlikely luthiers -- unlikely because they left the world of high technology for the ...

Ed Snoble has been custom-building guitars and repairing guitars, banjos and other stringed instruments for the last 30 years. Oh, and he also loves a good cup of coffee. Combine the three and you’ll ...

John Page will readily admit he was never much of a guitar player. But in the world of design he’s a virtual Stradivarius of the modern-day electric guitar. Growing up in Whittier, Page was inspired ...

At the October meeting of the San Antonio Luthiers Group, a relatively new club for custom musical instrument makers, a couple dozen members — primarily middle-aged men — wandered through 10BitWorks, ...

Custom guitar builder Matt Artinger is an excellent example of what can happen when your passion meets your purpose. Growing up in Allentown, Matt loved to build things. However, once he picked up his ...

When a 9-year-old Neil Smith got his first guitar - a secondhand Danelectro - he didn't play it immediately. Instead, he took it apart. "I used to get myself into so much hot water. I took everything ...