Tinkering has always been rife among electric guitar players. In contrast, most acoustic guitar players seem less inclined to alter their instruments. For some reason, we’d often rather accept them ...

When LA-based luthier Reuben Cox began fitting acoustic guitars with rubber bridges – a unique mod that, especially when accompanied by flat-wound strings, gives guitars a muted, almost deadened sound ...

While designing a guitar, a regular guitar design follows a fairly consistent blueprint: a body, a neck, and a headstock—where the tuning machines are—strings go from top to bottom. But over the last ...