Michael Watts explores solutions to the challenge of amplifying acoustic guitars over the decades – are we nearly there yet?

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

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

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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

VERY FEW NAMES in our industry command as much respect as John Suhr’s. His creations are widely considered to be world-beating manifestations of design and craft colliding at the highest possible leve