Q: What type of business do you operate – what do you sell, or what service do you provide? A: Big Hollow Guitars builds custom acoustic guitars and other instruments. I specialize in building ...
When it comes to electric guitars, if you can dream it, Ed Snoble can build it. Snoble has taken his hobby of repairing and customizing guitars and turned it into the Penguin Guitar Company, making ...
During the 2021 holiday season, I’m setting out to find the coolest gifts in the land (Buffalo land, that is). The search for some of the coolest gifts in Buffalo led me to luthier Declan Ryan’s front ...
Early last year, YouTube guitar wizard Jared Dines began a quest to find a skilled luthier who could make him a one-off 17-string guitar. After being let down by a US builder, and left seriously out ...
At a workbench tucked into the side room of a music store, Woody James builds his namesake guitars. Dozens of necks hang from the wall. The bench is cluttered with tools. A stack of bins hold switches ...
In her 34 years, Maegen Wells has — twice — fallen in love at first sight. When she was 7, she picked up a nylon-string acoustic guitar for the first time and strummed along to the soundtrack of ...
Prince Rogers Nelson’s last guitar was made by Simon Farmer, 47, of Heathfield, East Sussex, England. Farmer, nicknamed “Gus,” established his guitar business, Gus Guitars, in 1994. Farmer began ...
NORFOLK, Va. - The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted a lot of local businesses across Hampton Roads, as well as the local music industry. But one local guitar shop is committed to keep going, repairing ...
Jim Jaros' workshop looks like a high school woodshop class if there existed one that focused on making guitars instead of birdhouses and cutting boards. Step inside the New Sewickley Township ...