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 ...

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 ...

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," ...

Artists Vernon Reid says he hopes he and Jack White have started a trend for pro guitarists swapping signature models Artists Dimmu Borgir’s Silenoz on playing a guitar inspired by a shark – and why ...

When summer settles in, jazz fans turn their focus toward festivals. No stranger to this scenario, The Jazz Loft, in Stony Brook, NY, draws plenty of ears and cheers with its John Monteleone Art of ...