Music With A Past

Detroit’s abandoned houses have been the center of many news stories, but they’re not the stories you might think. They’re the stories of creative entrepreneurs turning the homes into everything from terrariums to ice sculptures. Our latest fascination is Wallace Detroit Guitars, which is making electric guitars from the reclaimed wood. “I got interested in seeing how far we could push that,” founder Mark Wallace says. “What can we build with reclaimed materials from Detroit?”