Terry Monroe is a lifelong guitarist who has now taken up the hobby of building his own guitars from the ground up.

FORT KNOX, Ky. (Nov. 9, 2010) -- For the past 19 years, Capt. Chad Ryg of the 3rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) has considered playing the guitar to be one of his favorite pastimes. Ryg, a ...

In 2018, roughly a decade into his role managing LA’s vintage mecca Norm’s Rare Guitars, Mark Agnesi made a video documenting his personal guitar collection. Shot in his spare room on a shaky camera ...

For the price of a Martin, produced in some far-away factory by anonymous hands, you could instead have a Sisson, made in Camp Washington by the man himself. Chris Sisson is the proprietor of ...

When he's not working as a pastor or taking care of his newborn, Zach Dease builds guitars, specifically flat tops. As a luthier, he spends from 150 to 200 hours making each guitar. “It all depends on ...

University of Texas Permian Basin music education student Mariah Gomez is building her very own classical guitar. She began the process in May and is eager to complete it by early November. “I tend to ...

Graduates from the Galloup School of Lutherie are qualified to land a job building guitars in any one of the finest high-end custom guitar companies in the world, or even in Nashville's famed Gibson ...

Suicide Silence guitarist Chris Garza worked with the Custom Shop on its first 7-string Strat – and there's hope that the one ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tuscany might not be an obvious destination when thinking of guitar building. Perhaps this is one ...

After researching old buildings in downtown Columbia for our book, “Historic Downtown Columbia,” my co-author, David James, and I thought it would be interesting to identify all of the buildings and ...

When Gibson Guitar Co. shuttered its operations here in 1984 after 90 years and beat it down the line to Nashville, the former plant managers didn`t spend much time singing the blues. Within months, ...