In order to help prevent a guitar's neck losing the fight against the pull of the strings, a metal rod usually runs through it. South Africa's Rubato Guitars has done away with the truss rod for its ...

The Blackbird Rider Nylon is an odd guitar, a mix of the traditional and the high-tech. First, the "nylon" in the name refers to the strings -- the guitar itself is made from carbon fiber, from the ...

While Bob Wiley's Ministar and the Apache Series from Vox are certainly travel-friendly guitars, they're not exactly adventure-proof. Chris Duncan's Alpaca Guitar, on the other hand, is precisely that ...

Carbon fiber acoustic/electric guitars aren’t for everyone, but many artists like Brantley Gilbert tour with them for their dependability in all climates. McPherson Guitars out of Sparta, Wisconsin ...

Carbon Fiber lends a very different set of features to a guitar. Aside from making it practically unbreakable and possibly quadrupling its lifespan, it lends a unique timbre to the guitar. Carbon ...

The Blackbird Rider is a guitar made out of carbon fiber that was designed using 3D CAD software. It’s 2/3 the size of an ordinary guitar but makes up for that by being hollow throughout—even in its ...

Blackbird’s Rider Nylon guitar is actually not made of nylon—ok its strings are—but instead it’s far more highly-tech’d and its body and neck are actually carbon fiber. It may not be bullet-proof, but ...