Guitar maker Harley Benton has launched four new build-your-own wooden guitar kits. In the mix are acoustic and electric models and one bass guitar, available for both righties and lefties. First in ...

What do honeycombs, mushrooms and cornhusks have in common? They are all ingredients that a New England guitar maker uses to reduce her impact on the environment. Michelle San Miguel of Rhode Island ...

Another afternoon finds Matt Zimbelman geeking out over wood. In the humidity-controlled basement of his Colorado Springs home, he’s pulling one slab and block after another off the shelves, all of ...

This intricate, lightweight "Greenaxe" electric guitar by Olaf Diegel shows off a new 3D printing technique that turns waste products like sawdust into high-strength, production-grade wood parts that ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - It combines music, history and a good cause together. A Lincoln man, Phil Whitmarsh, is helping to fund the repairs of the famous USS Texas by making electric guitars from its ...

One is from “the Tree”: a Honduran mahogany estimated at over 500 years old when it was felled in 1965. A genetic mutation has quilted the wood, yielding unequalled looks and sound. The second ...

The summit matched musicians like Maine-based Guster's Adam Gardner, and Young the Giant's Jacob Tilly, with industry execs and those focused on sustainability, like Shawn Collier of the Forest ...