JB Violins is tucked into a small building off Alley 38, just south of West Bonita Avenue in Claremont. One might expect its location in Claremont is the result of the arts-friendly college culture of ...

“The joke around here is that we work in the kind of place where Napoleon is new news,” says Adam, the founder and owner of Adam Day Violins, indulging in a bit of luthier humor. The name actually ...

The Kooskia, Idaho-based Byler family - consisting of father Edd and his three sons Paxton, Zach, and Zane - is the proud new owner of Muteki Knives.

Luthier Ken Lawrence has been equipping one of the biggest names in metal, James Hetfield, with some truly iconic axes for the best part of three decades – most famously ‘Carl’, which was ...

(Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG) For a fee, Brown apprenticed himself to Ruth Esther Evans, a Riverside luthier who had studied with Italian maker Mario Antono Frosali who ...