The Acoustic ... a guitar, how to read notes, and how to read guitar tablature are all covered in the first few pages to get new players started. Once the basics are established, the book moves ...

Phil Blauw of the Hope College staff produced and directed "Modern Luthier," a feature on the art of acoustic guitar building that will be shown on PBS locally on WGVU-TV35/WGVK-TV52 on Sunday, Oct. 8 ...

For more than 40 years, Hoffman's been chiseling and sanding and shaping fine woods into some of the highest quality acoustic ... took a shot building his very first guitar during the folk boom ...