Aspiring guitar builder Jukka Sollasvaara and one of his friends have built what might just be the world’s heaviest acoustic guitar in a madcap experiment that swaps out tonewoods for concrete. Guitar ...

When I first met the custom guitar maker, he told me that there was a pretty lively guitar-making scene in Rochester (a couple dozen luthiers), but he was only aware of one or two in Buffalo.

Here's how they make their iconic electric guitars. The process starts with wood selection. Typically, the bodies are composed of ash or alder, but could be made with others, such as maple ...