Paul Reed Smith salutes his mentor, Ted McCarty, and celebrates 40 years of PRS with an immaculate weight-relieved single-cut ...

The aged Mahogany wood was the first thing to catch my eye on the D’Angelico Premier Gramercy LS. Because this guitar is sub-$400, don’t expect solid Mahogany; this is all laminated.

A set of ordinary mahogany, reddish-brown with straight grains, might run him a couple of hundred dollars. This one, with enough wood for the back and sides of a guitar, cost him in the thousands.

At UBC’s Centre for Advanced Wood Processing, PhD student Joseph Doh Wook Kim plays a flawless riff on an electric guitar made with plantation-grown Fijian mahogany. The sound is deep, warm and ...

“Even though we [guitar makers] don’t represent a huge portion of the people that consume wood, we do serious damage ... rarer and older woods such as mahogany, ebony and rosewood.

The 45mm nut is bone. The mahogany neck is strengthened with walnut and joins the body with a compound dovetail neck. This is a serious acoustic guitar. Serious enough for the $2,499 outlay?