The next time you’re listening to someone play guitar — be it a big-name artist or your favorite local musician — there’s a good chance a critical part of their guitar string was made right here in Central New York.
United Wire Technologies produces the super-fine wires that wrap around about 80 percent of all guitar strings made and used in the United States. That means if you were to line up Chris Stapleton, Taylor Swift, Noah Kahan, Joe Bonamassa and Brandi Carlile, four of them are probably strumming something made just north of Oneida Lake.
Founded in 1938, United Wire is a fourth-generation manufacturing business in Constantia that keeps on hustling to defy the odds. They rebuilt after a devastating 2012 fire destroyed their equipment and building in Cleveland, N.Y. Fifteen years before that, the customer that accounted for 60 percent of United’s business decided to get the same product overseas instead…