WESTFIELD — A beloved beech tree that once stood in front of the Episcopal Church of the Atonement in Westfield is gone, cut down in January because of decay and disease, but some of it will ...

Biomaterials entered the picture when she considered the impact guitar-making has on certain tree species. “Even though we [guitar makers] don’t represent a huge portion of the people that ...

I didn’t care what color the guitar was,” Mr. Vines said in a 2020 documentary called “Hanging Tree Guitars: the Art of Freeman Vines,” produced by Music Maker Foundation, a nonprofit that ...

The package arrived as many Dan Wetzel has ordered before, a book-matched set of tonewood he would use to make an acoustic guitar. He removed the plastic film protecting the thin slices of ...

When the historic maple tree fell during the February 2021 ice ... businesses could make using the maple, including a guitar. Prison Blues produced its first guitar in 2016, donating it to the ...

"The guitar is a popular instrument. It may become a luxury instrument," he says. And extreme weather conditions can affect their growth, altering the regularity of the tree rings. "If it ...