Using reclaimed wood from vacant buildings, Wallace Detroit Guitars turns the city’s history into music-making works of art. If there’s one thing Detroit natives take pride in, it’s their city’s ...
EL CAJON, Calif. — Taylor Guitars has announced new guitars made with urban sourced eucalyptus wood that the company calls Urban Ironbark. Featured in the company's redesigned 500 Series instruments, ...
It doesn’t say enough to say that acoustic guitar building is not easy. At its core, it is a myriad of precise cuts and exact angles held together by time-honored techniques and very occasional ...
(CNN Money)-- Entrepreneur Mark Wallace found his inspiration inside an abandoned building in Detroit. That's when he realized the city's vacant homes, firehouses and auto manufacturing plants are not ...
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 ...
DETROIT — General Motors is teaming up with a Detroit guitar company that makes its instruments with reclaimed wood from city buildings. Chevrolet and Wallace Detroit Guitars are working to release a ...
A Bristol teenager has built his own guitar in an apparent homage to his hero, Brian May. The young British engineer is 18-year-old Sam Golder who has spent 18 months working on the instrument, which ...
According to many musicians, in order to have the best sound possible, an acoustic guitar has to be made from the "right" type of wood. Unfortunately, such wood often comes from endangered, ...
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