How the global timber trade turned giant Douglas Fir from Vancouver Island into floorboards in Fremantle.
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The big picture: storylines for the nature of music
Traditional materials for making guitars have been getting scarcer and caught up in tangles with trade restrictions. How are guitar makers responding?
At home with the Hendersons
Visiting guitar-making father and daughter, Wayne and Jayne Henderson, in Virginia and North Carolina and watching amazing guitars being created.
A message from Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitar Company
Guitar makers, like virtually everyone, have been impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic in many ways, but continue to hope for a better future.
Why write about guitars when the world’s falling apart?
Thinking and writing about guitars may seem fatuous in the midst of an all-consuming pandemic, but music remains as important to the human soul as ever.