An amendment to CITES Appendix II in January this year is resulting in the biggest forced change in guitar manufacturing ever. So what’s the big deal with rosewood? It’s perhaps the most revered of ...

With its rich, colorful grain and ringing tone, Brazilian rosewood can make a guitar buyer smile — and a guitar maker scream. Guitar buffs revere the wood as the foundation of some of the ...

When considering which fretboard or neck material to go for with your next guitar, or your next mod, there are typically two ...

In 2017, an amendment to an international treaty threw American guitar makers into a panic. In order to stop the overharvesting of rosewood for use in Chinese furniture, the Convention on ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An international crackdown on illegal logging in tropical forests has ensnared the makers of some guitars and other musical instruments, whose top-end products require small ...

Gibson has a new player in its rich line of acoustic guitars, with the Gibson Parlor Rosewood EC designed to be a compact cutaway with “a surprising richness and warmth for its size.” ...

Just by running his fingers over a piece of wood, luthier Fritz Damler can tell whether it can be turned into a guitar.

The guitar born from Breedlove’s latest collaboration with Sweetwater doesn’t just succeed in its class—it creates a brand new one. The moment the new guitar’s strings were tuned up, the ...

But unlike the construction and furniture industries, which favor quick-growing timber, the guitar industry typically uses rarer and older woods such as mahogany, ebony and rosewood. Trees are cut ...