San Francisco's Blackbird Guitars took a jumbo acoustic called El Capitan to 2015's National Association of Music Merchants show in California that was said to be the first guitar made from a high ...

An acoustic guitar needs old tonewood soundboard, body and neck to really make the unplugged party pop, right? Well no, not really. Guitar makers have experimented with a host of other materials over ...

Besides its susceptibility to temperature and climate change, wood also raises ecological concerns in guitar making - carbon fibre is proving an increasingly popular substitute, but it doesn't really ...

Inside Blackbird Guitars' warehouse, located on Folsom Street. Photo by Meira Gebel. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Sign up ...

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 ...

The Blackbird Rider might be the dorkiest-looking travel guitar around — that rectangular shape is more ye old minstrel show than rock ‘n’ roll — but the Rider is cleverly designed to squeeze maximum ...

A guitar fit for Michael Knight himself. Who says guitars always have to be made of wood? Not Blackbird, that’s for sure. The Blackbird Rider is an acoustic steel string guitar that’s compact with ...

Today, Kirby’s focus has shifted toward following industry news, and he has a sincere passion for one-off and tuned vehicles, car toys (especially LEGO brand,) and anything else even closely related ...

It’s hard for guitar purists to move away from unsustainable woods–but this might be the answer they need. With very few exceptions, guitars—even electric guitars—are made of wood. From a ...