Luthier's Review

Loucin Guitars is a guitar company founded by Garren Dakessian, a Canadian builder and student of Kevin Ryan (who has some very nice thing...

Proper humidity control can be your best friend if you are a collector or player of high-end acoustic instruments.  Failure to keep your in...

Well, I'm back on the horse here at Luthier's Review, and we're building a backlog of content so we can deliver more posts on mo...

Things have been slow on the blog for the last couple of weeks, but not behind the scenes.  We've got some great new content coming in J...

I had the good fortune of hearing a great player on an early McPherson during a wine tasting at a fantastic local Italian restaurant, Nonna ...

I apologize for the Minnesota-centric nature of this blog as I get started, but hey - we've got good builders, and it's cheaper and ...

Charlie Hoffman is well known both as a builder and for his world-class repair shop, Hoffman Guitars.  Many of his guitars are fairly conven...