A local rock musician is building on his passion by not only in playing the guitar, but also in making a custom versions of ...

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 ...

Ron Mann's portrait of a New York custom guitar maker is a delectable celebration of analog culture, DIY craft, and the heart of rock 'n' roll. “Carmine Street Guitars” is a one-of-a-kind documentary ...

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 ...

Guitar aficionados can meet and play with Rob Chapman of Chapman Guitars on May 15 (one day only) during the Chapman Guitars tour at Scotty’s Brewhouse Downtown on the Jefferson Plaza, 1 Virginia Ave.

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 ...

The blues are not learned in a monastery, Keith Richards once noted. And yet for instruments by Cindy Guitars, the materials may have come from a church. Cindy Hulej, who works out of Rick Kelly’s ...

(My Favorite Guitar is a monthly feature in The Times asking prominent local guitarists to talk about their favorite guitars.) Jim Jaros' workshop looks like a high school woodshop class if there ...

Ron Mann's portrait of a New York custom guitar maker is a delectable celebration of analog culture, DIY craft, and the heart of rock 'n' roll. “Carmine Street Guitars” is a one-of-a-kind documentary ...

Remember the images of John Paul Jones wielding an acoustic curiosity fused from parts of a mandolin and six- and 12-string guitars? Andy Manson made that. The legendary luthier conceived of the ...