Maegen Wells makes one-of-a-kind custom guitars from inside her workshop that sits in the middle of redwoods near the Russian River. In her 34 years, Maegen Wells has — twice — fallen in love at first ...

ARVADA, Colo. — Many consider the archtop guitar — an instrument patterned after violins and cellos eliciting a more mellow sound than a typical flattop guitar — a truly American invention. Legendary ...

D’Angelico guitars have always been rare beasts. John D’Angelico and his various apprentices completed approximately 30 guitars per year between 1932 and his death in 1964. From company ledgers, it’s ...

The Goldtop Les Paul and the Les Paul Custom were a significant new direction for a traditional archtop guitar manufacturer like Gibson. The winds of change would soon blow through the company’s ...

"We considered purple and even red," says Scott Chinery, owner of 1,000-plus guitars, the world's biggest and best such collection. "But blue was the perfect color to jolt people out of the old, staid ...

You might credit Dave Rawlings‘ signature fast-and-flat picking style to an encyclopedic knowledge of the guitar greats, or to a natural affinity for the instrument. Perhaps even to his Berklee degree ...