Music Man’s factory sports an impressive level of technology, with CNC cutting machines and a few industrial robots at work alongside human craftspeople, but the emphasis here is more on the human ...

At a workbench tucked into the side room of a music store, Woody James builds his namesake guitars. Dozens of necks hang from the wall. The bench is cluttered with tools. A stack of bins hold switches ...

“If you want to do something, the best thing to do is find the person who is the best at it and tackle them until you learn all that you can [from them],” said entrepreneur Paul Reed Smith in the ...

It’s called a factory, but there’s no assembly line, no automated production. Instead the sawdust-caked Orlando shop known as The Guitar Factory has built a decades-long reputation among local and ...

Along with Fender, Gibson is probably the most recognizable name in guitar manufacturing today. Everyone from Jimmy Page to Jack White has picked up a Les Paul, a Firebird, or one of the many other ...

KALAMAZOO, MI - Heritage Guitar Inc. has new partnerships that it hopes will grow its sales worldwide and make its Kalamazoo factory a destination place for music lovers far and wide. Company owners ...

TORRINGTON — Many people do not know about Torrington’s connection to guitar history, according to the Torrington Historical Society. The first guitar factory in the United States was located in ...

A factory within the factory, the Custom Shop uses a smaller, separate production process for its guitars. Small teams of builders hand produce each guitar that comes out of the Custom Shop, resulting ...