When master luthier John Monteleone begins work on a new guitar, he said the materials — thick boards of maple, spruce and exotic hardwood like Hawaiian koa and Brazilian rosewood — speak to him. “I ...

Monteleone created the Sun King after finding inspiration in an unlikely material: the scrap wood in his workshop. "That guitar happened very rapidly, just out of the very excitement of the design," ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I always knew I wanted to remain a single-man workshop,” says guitar-maker John Monteleone. “There was nothing ...

Artists Eric Johnson on why pick choice and picking style are fundamental to your playing – and how his favourite jazz player got his sound by using his thumb Artists Robben Ford on rearranging John ...