U8 Custom

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

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

This U8 Custom has been build for the Devin Townsend Empath Tour in Europe. An amazing piece of art swirled by Richard Fay in the UK.

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

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