This video showcases the construction of a guitar made from reclaimed wood pieces from an old piano. The main body is crafted from Green Heart wood, while the neck is potentially Maple and features ...

Master luthier TJ Thompson of West Concord, Mass., demonstrates how guitar wood sounds before it's made into guitars... and how a guitar-maker's task is to find the music in the wood. So far our ...

Guitar manufacturers use a small volume of some of the rarest exotic woods, but have come under the most pressure to adopt sustainable practices because of their high profile. Over the past decade, ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Joshua Needelman is a special projects reporter for The New York Times. He is a Long Island native and a graduate of the University of Maryland who has worked for The Washington Post, ...

When you think of a guitar what comes to mind? Maybe it’s a simple maple acoustic, the kind played by countless singer-songwriters over the years, or perhaps a double-necked mahogany electric, favored ...