U8 Deluxe Walnut sunburst
Inspired by the U8 Custom we did at the beginning of this year a customer asked for a walnut top. We still had the sister part on stock so we built this beautiful U8 Deluxe with a slight burst finish. It has a black Korina body, korina/walnut/korina 3-piece neck and a maple fretboard. The pickups […]
U8 Quilted Greenburst
We made this guitar for a customer that absolutely loves quilted maple and we think it turned out to look amazing. The body is made of alder with a greenburst quilted maple top. Neck and fretboard are made of plumwood, a local wood we really love. It has a Delano Pickup which sounds amazing and […]
T8 Natural Redwood
Stefan treavelled through the redwoods in california at the beginning of this year. Two weeks after a customer asked if we could do a T8 with a redwood top. What a lucky coincidence. This T8 has a redwood top, european cedar body, 3-piece cedar/walnut/cedar neck and a walnut fretboard. One of the best feeling guitars […]
Jaakko Peltonen
Jaakko Peltonen (b. 1986 in Helsinki, Finland) is a musician and luthier currently based in central Finland. Jaakko started off with drums as 8-year old and made music throughout his childhood. He later gravitated to bass. After a number of years studying musicology at university he switched to studying bass guitar and upright bass at […]
Blog: 12 January 2019
In this blog you get some impressions from our workshop in Austria. We finished the latest instruments while a snow storm was raging outside and is was nearly impossible to reach the workshop. It was worth the stress and strains.
NAMM Show 2019
We’ve been to NAMM…. Stefan was invited by our friends of Earthquaker Devices and Kemper Amps to do some demos with his new U8 Custom. The reactions to this beautiful instrument were absolutely amazing.
Stick Men US Tour 2019
We are happy to announce that Markus Reuter is touring with Stick Men and his U8 Deluxe in the US again. These are the dates: JULY 30, TUE – ARDMORE, PA (Ardmore Music Hall)JULY 31, WED – NEW YORK, NY (The Iridium) (two shows)AUG 1, THU – NEW YORK, NY (The Iridium) (two shows)AUG 2, […]
Touch Guitars® at Guitar Summit 2019
We are happy to announcne that we will have a booth at this year’s Guitar Summit in Mannheim, Germany. It will take place from the 27th to the 29th of September 2019. This is our first appearance at a music fair since the Musikmesse in 2010. Visit our booth, check out all models of our […]
Touch Guitars® at Vacuumfest 2019
We will have a small boot at this years issue of the Vacuumfest on th 4th of May 2019. This is a small post prog rock festival that is organized by Stefan Huth’s band ISAAC VACUUM. Stefan will present the whole range of instruments. Be there. Details about exhibitors and bands atwww.vacuumfest.de
U8 Custom
Stefan came up with this idea of a custom U8. He loves purple heart and the semi hollowed feel of the AU8. Why should we not combine this. It has a black korina body, 3-piece korina/purple heart/korina fretboard and the first prototype of our mellow pickups which is splittable as a single coil. We also […]
