There comes the time in all of our guitar playing lives where we feel the urge to fix up our guitar, maybe fire up the soldering iron and swap out a pickup. But more adventurous will not stop there.

Jerry Fessenden builds a pedal steel guitar in his Montpelier workshop Credit: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur “This is a horrible little shop,” Jerry Fessenden says as he opens the door to a shack abutting the ...

MONTPELIER Jerry Fessenden feels that he was born for the pedal steel guitar. "It was something about the way my mother carried me in the womb," said the 62-year-old musician and instrument builder.

No soldering experience required, because this kit, with its step-by-step manual, will teach you everything you need to know, and offers a primer in soldering and basic electronics When you purchase ...

After the pavement ends—and where some might call God’s country begins—is 76-year-old Del Mullen’s home. “I like it because the freedom that you got,” Mullen said. “I can go outside, and holler and ...