Is there any state in the United States besides New Mexico that has a “state guitar”—along with its state flower (yucca), state bird (roadrunner), state animal (black bear), and all the other inspired and obscure official designations that legislators have come up with through the years? It was in 2009 that Governor Bill Richardson signed the authorization to make Pimentel & Sons Guitarmakers’ “New Mexico Sunrise” acoustic guitar a state symbol—two years later the New Mexico Museum of Art acquired … Continue reading New Mexico Luthiers Pimentel & Sons Still Build Guitars ‘the Old Way’