Taking shape

Alex Bishop begins three new guitar builds, guided by a lesson drawn from playing the instrument itself

Alex Bishop reshapes a guitar neck this month – but will he destroy a pristine new guitar in the process?

The restoration continues with some risky surgery, finish restoration and a brace repair

TRADITION CAN BE a gilded cage for guitar companies with a long and famous history such as Martin. On the one hand, Martin’s original D-28 is, to this day, most people’s mental template for what an ac

Musical instruments have power, simply as things. They speak. They generate emotion. They tell stories about life, death, happiness and sadness – and about the past, which they can resurrect with curi

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