U8 Custom – Collaboration Project with Vuorensaku and Greuter Audio
This project is very special. Stefan met Saku Vuori of Vuorensaku guitars at the Guitar Summit in Mannheim. While having a whisky we recognized that a friend, luthier and Touch Guitar player Jaakko Peltonen is working for Saku. Such a surprise. So we decided to make an aged Touch Guitar since Saku is an expert […]
U8 – padauk, kaya mahogany
Made by Jaakko Peltonen at the Vuorensaku workshop (https://www.vuorensaku.fi) • kaya mahogany body • 2-piece flamed maple neck • rocklite fretboard • black hardware • Jim Dunlop Straplok system • Sperzel SBC locking tuners • Delano SBC HE/S pickup • passive electronics Tuning: Bb F C G D A C D
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 […]
