WHITTIER – Bernie Hefner knows a thing or two about guitars. And he’s parlayed that knowledge into two businesses – Guitar Alley, which does guitar repairs, and the B. Hefner Co., which builds ...

Justin Edwards was studying sculpting and airbrushing when he made a shark sculpture. As he held it, he had an idea. “It kind of felt like a guitar,” he said. He chopped off the tail, slapped on a ...

Pity the poor guitarist: there's a lot of string-slingers out there, fretboards a-heaving with flashy licks. You really have to work hard to get noticed. And even to get in the ring, you'll be ...