Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Freeman Vines may not be a well known name in the music world, but his work is finally being recognized. In September, the ...

Craftsman Ernie Navarre leaned over a pear-shaped shaped piece of wood. It is the front of what will become an acoustic guitar. “I’m making sure that the center is true and it's where it should be,” ...

In the 170 years or so since acoustic guitars took on their modern form, luthiers have combed the world’s forests for materials that combine both tone and beauty: the Adirondacks and Alps for spruce, ...

Freeman Vines is an African American luthier who creates what have been called "contemporary art sculptures hidden as guitars" out of old wood,... Hanging Tree Guitars: The Wood's 'Not Good, Not Bad, ...

Freeman Vines, a North Carolina–based artist, guitar maker, and one-time blues musician, thought he’d seen it all: He’d worked for free on a white farm and served jail time for bootlegging. But about ...

Your next luxury guitar may not be made of treasured mahogany from the forests in Guatemala, nor from the long-revered rosewood of India — but from the lumber of a tree off the side of a Los Angeles ...

Thousands of Altadena's cherished trees were lost during and after the Eaton Fire, but there are efforts underway to salvage and repurpose them, and it has attracted one of the world's top guitar ...

Bravo, Dean Guitars. You've just created one of the coolest custom axes we've ever seen! The new guitar is the Dimebag Darrell Signature ROOTS ML. Limited to only 200 individually numbered pieces, the ...