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 ...

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.

Three masters from the International Guitar Foundation explain the differences between classical and flamenco guitars, and ...

Urban Ironbark replaces mahogany in the 500 series guitar backs and sides. The wood compares to East Indian rosewood and ebony in density, according to Taylor Guitars. This is the first time ...

By the late '50s, rock ’n’ roll was in full swing – and so for Guild, a ‘jazz guitar’ maker, it was time to catch up. Enter ...

Taylor Guitars’ historic Urban Wood Initiative uses beautiful tonewoods ... city trees that need to be removed instead of removing mahogany and other woods from important forests worldwide.

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.

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

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?

“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.