https://acousticguitar.com lessons, music to play, and how-tos for all guitarists Wed, 25 Dec 2024 00:59:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/acousticguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AG_Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://acousticguitar.com 32 32 103806923 https://acousticguitar.com/faibanks-guitars-dale-fairbanks-interview/ https://acousticguitar.com/faibanks-guitars-dale-fairbanks-interview/#respond Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=146233 The Fairbanks Guitars founder talks about his journey from being a jazz trumpeter and guitarist with coffee-shop day jobs to becoming a master luthier.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/faibanks-guitars-dale-fairbanks-interview/feed/ 0 146233 https://acousticguitar.com/scott-memmer-charmed-life-guitar-picks/ https://acousticguitar.com/scott-memmer-charmed-life-guitar-picks/#respond Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=145739 A conversation with Scott Memmer, whose cutting-edge products have brought him lots of fans in the world of acoustic instruments.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/scott-memmer-charmed-life-guitar-picks/feed/ 0 145739 https://acousticguitar.com/cat-fox-of-sound-guitar-repair-fixes-and-restores-instruments-for-stars-and-hobbyists-alike/ https://acousticguitar.com/cat-fox-of-sound-guitar-repair-fixes-and-restores-instruments-for-stars-and-hobbyists-alike/#comments Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=145184 The acoustic instrument "health and wellness" expert talks about her training, memorable repair jobs, and her recent move to New England.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/cat-fox-of-sound-guitar-repair-fixes-and-restores-instruments-for-stars-and-hobbyists-alike/feed/ 4 145184 https://acousticguitar.com/santa-cruz-guitar-company-new-vault-series/ https://acousticguitar.com/santa-cruz-guitar-company-new-vault-series/#comments Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=144789 Hoover enlisted the most skilled luthiers in his workshop to build a series of instruments that would represent the state of the art of the steel-string guitar.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/santa-cruz-guitar-company-new-vault-series/feed/ 3 144789 https://acousticguitar.com/the-secret-to-shubb-capos-50-years-in-business-its-the-little-things/ https://acousticguitar.com/the-secret-to-shubb-capos-50-years-in-business-its-the-little-things/#respond Fri, 31 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=144554 Checking in with Rick Shubb, founder of Shubb Capos, on his company’s 50th anniversary.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/the-secret-to-shubb-capos-50-years-in-business-its-the-little-things/feed/ 0 144554 https://acousticguitar.com/rosie-heydenrych-of-turnstone-guitars/ https://acousticguitar.com/rosie-heydenrych-of-turnstone-guitars/#comments Sun, 25 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=143367 Founded in 2015, Turnstone has been gaining accolades and visibility in the custom-built acoustic world.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/rosie-heydenrych-of-turnstone-guitars/feed/ 3 143367 https://acousticguitar.com/tonewoodamps-helene-webman-on-her-companys-unique-gear-and-mission/ https://acousticguitar.com/tonewoodamps-helene-webman-on-her-companys-unique-gear-and-mission/#comments Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=142520 Webman tells the story behind one of the most intriguing pieces of guitar technology to emerge in the past decade.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/tonewoodamps-helene-webman-on-her-companys-unique-gear-and-mission/feed/ 3 142520 https://acousticguitar.com/how-guitar-makers-are-responding-to-climate-and-supply-threats/ https://acousticguitar.com/how-guitar-makers-are-responding-to-climate-and-supply-threats/#comments Sun, 05 Nov 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=141900 Guitar manufacturers are rethinking their processes in a world where climate change and deforestation are no longer abstract problems.]]> 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ride.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/reuben-cox-old-style-guitar-shop/feed/ 4 141048 https://acousticguitar.com/john-monteleones-exquisite-archtops/ Sun, 09 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=138670 If there’s a living heir to the great mid-20th-century luthiers like John D’Angelico and James D’Aquisto, John Monteleone would have to be it.]]> 138670 https://acousticguitar.com/lillian-werbin-new-co-owner-and-president-of-elderly-instruments/ https://acousticguitar.com/lillian-werbin-new-co-owner-and-president-of-elderly-instruments/#respond Sun, 25 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=135597 Werbin talks about balancing dreams and realities at the celebrated East Lansing, Michigan, music store founded by her father, Stan Werbin, in 1972.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/lillian-werbin-new-co-owner-and-president-of-elderly-instruments/feed/ 0 135597 https://acousticguitar.com/luthier-william-eaton-has-made-a-life-in-music-with-a-passion-for-unconventional-instruments/ https://acousticguitar.com/luthier-william-eaton-has-made-a-life-in-music-with-a-passion-for-unconventional-instruments/#respond Sun, 09 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=134944 William Eaton has made many unconventional instruments since the mid-1970s, and he has helped students learn how to build much more straightforward guitars at Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery]]> https://acousticguitar.com/luthier-william-eaton-has-made-a-life-in-music-with-a-passion-for-unconventional-instruments/feed/ 0 134944 https://acousticguitar.com/a-visit-with-archtop-luthier-tim-frick/ https://acousticguitar.com/a-visit-with-archtop-luthier-tim-frick/#respond Fri, 31 Mar 2023 15:56:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=104813 For the last decade, luthier Tim Frick has quietly been pushing the envelope on the design of the archtop guitar.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/a-visit-with-archtop-luthier-tim-frick/feed/ 0 104813 https://acousticguitar.com/maegen-wells-is-building-next-level-archtop-guitars-in-her-northern-california-workshop/ https://acousticguitar.com/maegen-wells-is-building-next-level-archtop-guitars-in-her-northern-california-workshop/#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:05:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=125766 “I don’t ever say that I chose to get into guitar making,” says archtop guitar maker Maegen Wells. “I felt like I was surrendering to a mission.”]]> https://acousticguitar.com/maegen-wells-is-building-next-level-archtop-guitars-in-her-northern-california-workshop/feed/ 0 125766 https://acousticguitar.com/great-acoustics-linda-manzers-sunflower-guitar-for-ukraine/ https://acousticguitar.com/great-acoustics-linda-manzers-sunflower-guitar-for-ukraine/#respond Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=134906 Renowned Canadian luthier Linda Manzer made the "Sunflower Guitar" to raise funds to aid the Ukrainian people.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/great-acoustics-linda-manzers-sunflower-guitar-for-ukraine/feed/ 0 134906 https://acousticguitar.com/steve-nall-steps-into-a-big-new-role-at-collings-guitars/ https://acousticguitar.com/steve-nall-steps-into-a-big-new-role-at-collings-guitars/#respond Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=134142 Steve Nall recently took over selecting tonewoods and voicing the tops and backs of all Collings acoustic guitars after working for decades with mentors Bill Collings and Bruce VanWart.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/steve-nall-steps-into-a-big-new-role-at-collings-guitars/feed/ 0 134142 https://acousticguitar.com/great-acoustics-a-loyal-customer-inspires-a-bold-new-big-hollow-jumbo/ https://acousticguitar.com/great-acoustics-a-loyal-customer-inspires-a-bold-new-big-hollow-jumbo/#respond Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=134097 When a repeat customer asked Big Hollow Guitars' Bevan Frost to build a large-bodied guitar with unique inlays, the luthier rose to the challenge.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/great-acoustics-a-loyal-customer-inspires-a-bold-new-big-hollow-jumbo/feed/ 0 134097 https://acousticguitar.com/5-luthiers-30-and-under-share-their-stories-and-talk-shop/ https://acousticguitar.com/5-luthiers-30-and-under-share-their-stories-and-talk-shop/#respond Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=133545 Five promising young luthiers—Brian Itzkin, Oliver Marchant, Eve Meister, Max Spohn, and Olivia Elia—chat about their personal visions and approaches to the craft of building guitars.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/5-luthiers-30-and-under-share-their-stories-and-talk-shop/feed/ 0 133545 https://acousticguitar.com/handsome-instruments-from-retired-industry-icon-dick-boak/ https://acousticguitar.com/handsome-instruments-from-retired-industry-icon-dick-boak/#respond Sun, 09 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=133274 Since his retirement in 2018, former C.F. Martin & Co. mainstay Dick Boak has continued hand-building instruments like this dreadnought-ukulele-small-bodied-guitar trio.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/handsome-instruments-from-retired-industry-icon-dick-boak/feed/ 0 133274 https://acousticguitar.com/rick-turners-personal-2007-compass-rose-model-guitar/ https://acousticguitar.com/rick-turners-personal-2007-compass-rose-model-guitar/#respond Sun, 04 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=132501 Rick Turner created many unique Compass Rose acoustics, but this one—regarded as among his finest—was the luthier’s personal guitar and a showcase of both his bold concepts and skilled execution. ]]> https://acousticguitar.com/rick-turners-personal-2007-compass-rose-model-guitar/feed/ 0 132501 https://acousticguitar.com/bob-taylor-richard-hoover-dana-bourgeois-50-years-of-guitar-making/ https://acousticguitar.com/bob-taylor-richard-hoover-dana-bourgeois-50-years-of-guitar-making/#respond Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=129193 Bob Taylor (Taylor Guitars), Richard Hoover (Santa Cruz Guitars), and Dana Bourgeois (Schoenberg, Bourgeois Guitars) reflect on 50 years of guitar making.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/bob-taylor-richard-hoover-dana-bourgeois-50-years-of-guitar-making/feed/ 0 129193 https://acousticguitar.com/classical-guitar-builder-joshia-de-jonge-on-experimentation-and-a-life-of-lutherie/ https://acousticguitar.com/classical-guitar-builder-joshia-de-jonge-on-experimentation-and-a-life-of-lutherie/#respond Sun, 31 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=120924 Classical guitar builder Joshia de Jonge talks about experimenting in her own shop after years of working alongside her father & other facets of a life of lutherie.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/classical-guitar-builder-joshia-de-jonge-on-experimentation-and-a-life-of-lutherie/feed/ 0 120924 https://acousticguitar.com/remembering-luthier-rick-turner-and-his-many-contributions-to-the-guitar-world-and-beyond/ https://acousticguitar.com/remembering-luthier-rick-turner-and-his-many-contributions-to-the-guitar-world-and-beyond/#respond Sun, 24 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=132661 Alembic, Turner, The Dead's Wall of Sound—The late luthier Rick Turner, who died last April at 78, had such an illustrious career that to fully describe it, one would need to write a medium-size book.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/remembering-luthier-rick-turner-and-his-many-contributions-to-the-guitar-world-and-beyond/feed/ 0 132661 https://acousticguitar.com/paul-reed-smith-took-inspiration-from-torres-for-his-acoustic-guitar-design/ https://acousticguitar.com/paul-reed-smith-took-inspiration-from-torres-for-his-acoustic-guitar-design/#respond Sat, 23 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://acousticguitar.com/?p=132928 When Paul Reed Smith first heard an 1800s acoustic guitar built by Antonio Torres, he knew his own steel-string guitar designs would borrow structural elements from Torres.]]> https://acousticguitar.com/paul-reed-smith-took-inspiration-from-torres-for-his-acoustic-guitar-design/feed/ 0 132928