What does it take to go from loving acoustic guitars to actually building them? To answer this, we asked a handful of luthiers to tell us their origin stories. Read More
Superb classical and flamenco guitars are made in every corner of the world, yet no other country’s socio-cultural relationship to an instrument is as close as Spain’s is to the guitar. Read More
Historically, the skills in a number of different crafts have been passed down in families. In Spain, building guitars has long been a family business. Read More
Japanese luthiers were already building fine classical guitars in the 1960s and solving technical challenges that would soon make them major exporters well into the 1980s Read More