The Show's ANALOGS series is about people who make things by hand — and what those things tell us about those people.

The youngster's project shares many similarities with May’s Red Special, while it bears the distinctive shape of Randy Rhoads ...

The guitar starts its life as many guitars do: with a block of wood. One of the design goals was to be able to use simple tools to build the guitar, so the shape of the instrument was honed with a ...

A lot of first-time guitar builders focus on making the body and skip the neck, which has lots of tricky dimensions to get right to if you want a nicely playable instrument. However, [Jón Schone ...

Jackson guitars first gained notoriety from Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads' custom-built asymmetric flying V model he called Concorde. The brand has since continued to build great-sounding ...

A Wilkie Blue Nocturne model was featured in the Blue Guitar Collection exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The collection was originally built by the late archtop ...

I think one of the reasons such an established and world-renowned brand like Lehle was interested in a cooperation with a small guitar builder like me, beyond the innovative concept, stems from our ...