The Daily Herald

PROVO — Lots of people have taught themselves how to play a guitar. There’s almost certainly a considerably smaller number of guitar enthusiasts, on the other hand, who have taught themselves how to make a guitar — as in build one from scratch.

You probably can’t just pick up a kit for that at your average hobby store.

Provo resident and self-taught guitar player Tim Taylor didn’t even need a kit when he decided on a whim last year to take his interest in six-stringed sound makers to the next level.

Instead, Taylor, 65, followed a time-honored approach more often reserved for things like cars, or vacuum cleaners, that have standard replaceable parts: Find one that works and take it apart to see what’s inside.

PROVO — Bryce Knudson’s grandparents instilled in him at an early age the importance of hard work and work done well. Even as a teenager, he says he found himself concerned about how the quality of everyday things seemed to be compromised by mass production.

PROVO — A Utah County family of fishermen faces an enormous task — ridding Utah Lake of an invasive species.

Fifth generation Utah Lake fisherman Bill Loy Jr., his son Cody Loy and their fishing crew of six men cast their nets daily to pull millions of pounds of wriggling carp in each year.