2023
“Diaperwood” and dead trees: guitar makers find new sources of Sitka spruce November 30 2023
Sitka Spruce: conflicts over old growth and plantations October 18 2023
Old closet doors: better in guitars than landfill August 28 2023
War and peace: hanging on to hope August 4 2023
Football, flowers and tone: objective reality versus perception June 26 2023
Guitars made from bamboo: who knew?! May 12 2023
The view from space: Martin’s Earth Guitar March 26 2023
Mangoes, cherries and Martin guitars March 10 2023
Applewood: instruments from the orchard February 2 2023
2022
A collector’s passion: diverse woods used in early European guitars December 17 2022
The curious case of the violin in a cage November 18 2022
Metal, mines and music: resonator guitars October 4 2022
Dance band on the Titanic: on loss, hope and music August 19 2022
Guitars without trees: Blackbird, flax and Ekoa July 24 2022
Cities, urban forests and Taylor’s Urban Ash guitars June 27 2022
Witnessing the past: memories and hope in trees and wood May 8 2022
Volcanoes, slide guitar and koa: nature and music in Hawaii April 20 2022
Guitars, bugs and climate change – Fender and the Emerald Ash Borer February 15 2022
Trees, guitars, lizards and squid – perspectives on nature and music in the Anthropocene Jan 17 2022
2021
Cigars and guitars: turning junk into music December 15 2021
Ethical consumer choice and guitars November 26 2021
Women, war and wonderful guitars October 18 2021
SmartWood and dumb decisions: Gibson’s checkered history September 24 2021
Tall trees, tunnels and train robberies: recycling Redwood August 20 2021
Admiring imperfection: enjoying “ordinary” treasures July 27 2021
A violin needs a bow June 12 2021
Stradivari, Cremona and violin mystique June 12 2021
The house of a thousand guitars: on being obsessed May 28 2021
Trees that nobody loves: weedy guitars April 21 2021
And . . . what are we going to do about it? March 14 2021
Wheatbelt woodlands in Western Australia: loss, hope and a guitar March 14 2021
Re-use, recycle, repair, restore February 2 2021
Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky January 2 2021
2020
Out of Africa: Changing the world one guitar at a time December 17 2020
Sleeping giants: Ancient Kauri from Far North New Zealand November 22 2020
The Cadillac of Woods: Brazilian Rosewood October 14 2020
Quenda, Zanda, Jacaranda! What’s in a name? August 30 2020
Mighty oaks, whisky and guitars July 13 2020
From forest giant in Canada to floorboards in Australia May 29 2020
The big picture: storylines for the nature of music May 29 2020
At home with the Hendersons April 23 2020
A message from Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitar Company March 30 2020
Why write about guitars when the world’s falling apart? March 25 2020
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