CONCRETE, Wash. – While some companies look ahead only as far as the next quarterly financial statement, Pacific Rim Tonewoods has embarked on a business plan involving figured maple wood that won’t ...

Cigar boxes may have intrigued you - dovetailed wood versions that seemed so wonderfully crafted, and perhaps overbuilt, to their purpose. The subject may be gaining currency as relations thaw between ...

A wood guitar can be a fickle thing. Oh sure, the best of them sing with tone to die for. But let it get too hot or too cold, or too humid or too dry, and that beautiful voice can change. Alternative ...

No matter how good the tone of modern materials such as Flaxwood and Arium are claimed to be, some players will simply not entertain owning a guitar unless it's made from vintage wood. Fender has soft ...

It doesn’t say enough to say that acoustic guitar building is not easy. At its core, it is a myriad of precise cuts and exact angles held together by time-honored techniques and very occasional ...

A Lewiston guitar-making company that’s well-known in the music industry is developing a boutique sawmill to produce finished parts for musical instruments, with a primary focus on red spruce.