The result is the book “Archtop Guitars: The Journey from Cremona to New York,” self-published through Graphis and currently on sale for $220 at Rudy’s Music and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

SOUTHBURY -- Red spruce and curly maple from the Northeast, bubinga from Africa and urundel from South America. These are the woods Carl Barney starts with. Out of them come his acclaimed guitars. "I ...

APPRAISER: He did that for a few years, but he closed that business down in 1932 and began making his own archtop guitars. Everything about this guitar was top of the line. And John D'Angelico is, by ...