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Posted by: audiopaal May 11 2009, 12:09 AM

Yep!
I let my ESP Eclipse II, Fender Telecaster 60th Anniversary and Takamine TF250SMCSB go..
I never thought I'd ever let any one of these go to be honest

But once every magical year, something extraordinary happens.
You decide to try out a guitar, and the moment you touch it you know..
You just know, that this is the one you've been waiting for your entire life
Everything's right, it feels right, it sounds right, it sustains right, it looks right, it even smells right.

This is what happened to me.

To quote www.guitarplayer.com:
"...a supremely playable instrument that blends power, definition, warmth, and sustain"


*drumroll* I give you the.. *drumroll*

Nik Huber Redwood









It looks a little bit darker in real life, the pictures were taken in the store,
so I find it even more beautiful in normal lighting

I've never been one to think too highly of guitars priced this high.
I've tried a couple of Ken Lawrence Explorers which is in the same pricerange,
but they never tickled my pickle the way this did..
I just couldn't stop thinking about it once I tried it,
so saturday I went back to the store and made a deal with the owner

I'll make you some samples and comparison samples between this and my Gibson.
I warn you though, the Redwood is on another level (sad, but true...)

You can read the www.guitarplayer.com review http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/nik-huber-redwood/Nov-06/24130

Specifications:
* Mahogany chambered body
* Mahogany lid over electronics
* Top is Exceptional Curly Redwood in one piece
* Tigereye burst color
* 25 1/2" mahogany neck with Abalone dots
* Neck is also Toigereye burst
* Ebony fretboard
* Häussel Vintage humbuckers with split. Split is controlled by push/push on the toneknob
* 3-way switch, volum, tone
* Gold hardware
* Ebony pickup rings
* Huber wraparound bridge
* Schaller tuners with ebony wings
* SKB custom case

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First I'd like to compare this guitar with my Gibson.
My Gibson has Bareknuckle pickups and is a great guitar in my opinion..
Still... The Huber is in it's own class as you'll hear pretty soon

For these two soundclips I just picked a preset on my Marshall JMP-1, a pretty bad one I'm afraid but that doesn't really matter. Both guitars are played thrugh the exact same settings at the exact same volume so you can hear the differences

Gibson:  Gibson.mp3 ( 3.99MB ) : 301


Huber:  Huber.mp3 ( 3.99MB ) : 297



And here are a couple of other soundclips from the Huber. I haven't had the time to dial in my preamp with this guitar, but it sounds pretty good still, but I'll post some better ones at a later time! Here we go:

Slow Pop (With delay and a little reverb):  Huber_Slow_Pop.mp3 ( 2.44MB ) : 256


Rockaroll:  Huber_Rockaroll.mp3 ( 2.52MB ) : 248


Hard rock:  Huber_01.mp3 ( 6.02MB ) : 244


Hope you like some of it although it's not optimal, but I'll try Mic'ing up a tube amp in the near future to show it in all it's glory

Posted by: sigma7 May 11 2009, 12:11 AM

wow, what a beauty, hope this one treats u well

Posted by: ZakkWylde May 11 2009, 12:12 AM

You just couldn' resist, could you?

Posted by: audiopaal May 11 2009, 12:15 AM

Update: added specifications.

Nope, I couldn't resist
Believe me, it's awesome..
Almost too good, hehe

Posted by: Praetorian May 11 2009, 12:50 AM

Dude...when I saw the pics I said right out loud - "WHOOOOOOOA!"

My wife asked me what I was looking at and she took a look...her response was the same! KILLER guitar bro!!!

Posted by: skennington May 11 2009, 01:04 AM

Very nice Paal. A friend of mine has a Redwood, played Gretsch guitars for as long as I can remember, he recently found a Huber Redwood here in the States.. Now he swears by it..

Posted by: Sinisa Cekic May 11 2009, 01:09 AM

Beauty !!

Posted by: g-forcelover May 11 2009, 01:16 AM

wow. that looks so amazing, now I want one! curse you haha

Posted by: audiopaal May 11 2009, 06:16 AM

That was my first response as well
Thanks mate, you and your wife have good taste in guitars


Thanks
I understand why he made the change, although Gretsch make some great guitars!
I't amazing, really



It is, Thanks a lot



Haha, thanks!

Posted by: Kuba Szafran May 11 2009, 06:29 AM

Man, this guitar looks awesome! I'm jealous !

Posted by: AlexLion May 11 2009, 06:59 AM

AudioPaal I`m glad you bought yourself all time dream guitar!! Be sure to enjoy, because people are not always happy with their achievements they eager for more, but this isn`t not the case I think


btw - Is that a gold all over your guitar?

Posted by: Bondy May 11 2009, 07:03 AM

WoW Paal that looks the dogs privates!! lol awesome axe the

Posted by: audiopaal May 11 2009, 07:10 AM

Thanks a lot


Thanks mate
Everybody eager for more sometimes, but not everyone needs it
Sure, I want another Huber sometime but it'd be a totally different guitar like his Jr. model or something Custom ordered to my own specs..
But believe me, none of that is needed in while
I'm quite happy with the way things are right now

Gold, gold, gold, muhahaha!!!


Thanks a lot

Posted by: Velvet Roger May 11 2009, 08:20 AM

This guitar looks truly amazing Paal, enjoy it!

Posted by: -Zion- May 11 2009, 08:39 AM

phew.. that one looks *awesome*..

Congratz.. you must be a happy man right now..

Posted by: sted May 11 2009, 10:04 AM

Absolutely stunning that mate, love the tele inspired shape, the hardware looks top drawer too.

youre giving me bad ideas paal......

Posted by: Fran May 11 2009, 10:44 AM

Wow, looks amazing, that redwood top is just unbelievable, congrats Paal

Posted by: Sensible Jones May 11 2009, 11:31 AM

Awesome acquisition Paal!!!
I am jealous!!!!!

Posted by: Trond Vold May 11 2009, 01:11 PM

Bah! ....... Thats all i have to say



Okthen, maybe something more: Congrats!

Hopefully i'll get the chance to try out the (h)Ûber guitar soon

Posted by: OrganisedConfusion May 11 2009, 01:46 PM

Cool looking guitar. Certainly not my style of guitar but it sure is a beauty. Maybe I should trade in everything I own for a Parker Fly Koa which is a steal at £5000

Posted by: kaznie_NL May 11 2009, 02:55 PM

Sound Clips!!! awesome guitar Paal!!

Posted by: berko May 11 2009, 03:01 PM

+1 (please)

It just looks...

Posted by: AlexLion May 11 2009, 03:26 PM

Omg that Parker comes with real gold hardware

Posted by: OrganisedConfusion May 11 2009, 03:38 PM

oh yes

Posted by: audiopaal May 11 2009, 07:26 PM

Thanks a lot everyone

Trond: You'll get your chance soon

Wow, I don't like Parkers but THAT was a beauty

Posted by: lcsdds May 11 2009, 07:43 PM

No guitar is worth 10k.....

Posted by: berko May 11 2009, 08:04 PM

Isn't gold too soft (as metal) to be unstable as a tuning peg or a saddle on that Fly?

Posted by: AlexLion May 11 2009, 08:33 PM

I thought the same.. It`s pretty "soft" compared to other metals.. Well I understand reason why some engine parts of McLaren F1 is made of gold, it`s very heat consuming ( if it is correct on english). But here .. probably just for "epicness"

Posted by: Canis May 11 2009, 08:34 PM

Oh yeah.. It seems like you made yourself a great deal here, Pål.. Why have three good guitars when you can have one AWESOME guitar?

A true beauty ^^
Never cared much for Tele-shaped guitars, but this one really works!

Posted by: AlexLion May 11 2009, 08:35 PM

Some custom sure do, if it`s really mega custom

Posted by: audiopaal May 11 2009, 10:47 PM

I agree


I'm gonna post some clips in an hour or so of the Huber

One clean/pop thingy and one old school rock n roll

Posted by: audiopaal May 11 2009, 11:28 PM

First post updated with clips!

Posted by: Pragomatic May 11 2009, 11:37 PM

I did almost the same thing! I traded in my Peavey Raptor, Tracer Flying V, and hot pink Kramer for a nice box of warm donuts and a cup of Joe.

Posted by: audiopaal May 11 2009, 11:40 PM

Haha, you must really like donuts

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic May 12 2009, 08:50 PM

Now that's a very fine piece of craftsmanship right there man! Congratulations Paal, may it serve you well many years (till next one appears )

Posted by: jer May 13 2009, 02:41 PM

That is gorgeous.

Nicely done AP!

Posted by: AlexLion May 13 2009, 04:45 PM

Wow sound is really beautiful, for such type of music perfect, IMO

Posted by: Young Guitarist May 13 2009, 04:47 PM

OH just you wait paal... one night when you're asleep, i will come in you'r window and start playing on ur guitar... !

Posted by: sted May 13 2009, 07:21 PM

Beautiful clean sounds there paal, so much more body and depth than the gibbo, need to hear the grinding marshall-esque tones now though!! Get those 'buckers bouncing!!

Posted by: berko May 13 2009, 07:26 PM

Well, if it rings that beautifully clean... it shall then have it's own realm of sound when cranked on an all-tube!!

If you sent both guitars through the same settings in the first two clips... then I can see what you're talkin' about

Posted by: audiopaal May 13 2009, 11:41 PM

Thanks a lot


Thanks man, appreciate it


Thanks, I'm very happy with it, hehe


Haha, I'll leave the case open for you


Thanks man

Here you go, Humbucking time:  Huber_01.mp3 ( 6.02MB ) : 158
(also in first post now)


It really does, I've tried

Yeah, same settings

Posted by: JVM May 13 2009, 11:53 PM

Paal, the guitar sounds amazing! I'm happy for you

Posted by: Praetorian May 14 2009, 12:37 AM

Let's see a video clip!!!!!!!

Posted by: AlexLion May 14 2009, 07:45 AM

That would be awesome!

Posted by: SensE May 14 2009, 07:59 AM

Oh my...I just comparing both of them on clean. Pal, did you use the same setting on amp for 2 different guitar? Was that any effect u added in? The Huber has brighter sound and more bite. Good sounding !

Posted by: enforcer May 14 2009, 09:19 AM

man really great clean sound. Enough low end and crisp tops... great! Very neat overdrive sound too. I'm eagerly waiting for some shred tones

Great job buying this buddy, congratz

Posted by: AlexLion May 14 2009, 10:05 AM

Paal, show us how it works with wildest distortion!

Posted by: sted May 14 2009, 10:29 AM

Nice tone there, not as low down and dirty as a gibson but has a real classy and transparent tone, like a high end PRS. Man that is some guitar!

Posted by: wrk May 14 2009, 10:38 AM

Wao man .. this is an outstanding beautiful guitar !!
Guitar shops are avoided places for me, it always ends up expensive or with heartbreaking decisions to let other things go.

You really did a good choice. Congratulations ... have fun with it !!

Posted by: audiopaal May 14 2009, 08:53 PM

Thanks mate


That can be arranged
I'm gonna take it to Trond Vold pretty soon, we can record a clip there


Yep!


I used the same settings for both guitars, and no effects added
It just sounds better, that's all


Thanks a lot mate
Yeah, I'll post some more later when I've dialed in some good sounds


Hehe, I'll give it a shot
It's not a metalguitar at all, but it could probably hold it's own
During the weekend I'll have some metal clip up!


Thanks man!

Well, Nik Huber used to be a custom builder for PRS and their Head of repairs in Europe I believe, so a high end PRS isn't too far away It's still better than a high end PRS imo, but an owner of a PRS Private Stock would probably state otherwise, but then he's never tried a Huber Redwood
Oh, and I've actually tried a PRS Private Stock (), but I still like this better!


Thanks man
Hehe, I know what you mean, it's a dangerous place

Posted by: MickeM May 14 2009, 09:25 PM

Stunning guitar!!

You got a Framus since before, I can't help wondering what's next

Congrats on the new guitar

Posted by: audiopaal May 17 2009, 10:30 PM

Thanks a lot mate

Well, about the Framus... I don't have it anymore...
I sold it and got a http://bogneramplification.com/customshop/DuendeInfo.php coming my way

How was your trip by the way?

Posted by: MickeM May 17 2009, 11:00 PM

Oh man it's impossible to keep up with your gas! congrats on the new amp too

The trip was nice, gotmyself 10 bottles of Solo. Celebrated May 17 by drinking a full 1,5 liters. Well, I shared a bit with the kids and they enjoyed the Norwegian Fanta
Norway sure got plenty of road tolls around there, it was just silly at times when every city big enough to have a McDonalds had to have road toll!!! At one time I managed to end up in the wrong lane, had cars beside and behind me so I was squeezed and just ran an autopass. We'll see how much that will cost me.
We also drove a bit up the E39 towards Stavanger looking for a place to sleep while checking out the place we shoud pick up the 8,5 cubic meters of goods to squeeze into the 8 cbm truck (at least it felt like impossible tetris with real boxes), and I was tempted to drive the extra 200 km to come knock at your door
Ended up in the budget hotel in Kristianstand-C which was quite alright.
Always fun to visit Norway, astonishing nature. but ever so tireing to drive the distance.

Posted by: audiopaal May 18 2009, 06:41 AM

Haha, I should speak to a doctor about my GAS problem (...)
Thanks mate

Solo rocks
Yeah, I know what you mean.. The road tolls are getting silly, there's too many!
Luckily there's not so many here on this side of the country, but whenever we're going to Oslo it's impressive that they've managed to build that many road tolls
Hehe, you should've come! Next time leavy your kids at home and we'll have a guitarfeast

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic May 18 2009, 10:28 AM

Wow congrats on getting this supreme piece of gear ! Clean sounds magical!

Posted by: audiopaal May 18 2009, 11:01 AM

Thanks a lot mate

Posted by: Young Guitarist May 18 2009, 02:40 PM

Cheers!