When LA-based luthier Reuben Cox began fitting acoustic guitars with rubber bridges – a unique mod that, especially when accompanied by flat-wound strings, gives guitars a muted, almost deadened sound ...

Inside a wooden cabin of a building nestled on the outer edge of Silver Lake, Reuben Cox started messing around with a guitar and accidentally created a new chapter in the history of rock and roll. It ...

For electric guitar bridges and saddles, steel and brass are kings, and there are plenty of other options: harder and brighter-sounding materials such as stainless steel or tungsten, for example, or ...

While designing a guitar, a regular guitar design follows a fairly consistent blueprint: a body, a neck, and a headstock—where the tuning machines are—strings go from top to bottom. But over the last ...

One guitar, one week, one song. Those are the parameters around the Acoustic Guitar Project. For the last 12 years, the ...

In the never ending quest to replicate the tone of depression-era blues records, [Valve Child] managed to build the most backwoods guitar ever seen. The body of [Valve Child]’s slide guitar was taken ...