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NIK HUBER PIET FROM £2,676

CONTACT Nik Huber

PHONE +49 (0)61 0677 2166

WEB www.nikhuber-guitars.com

What You Need To Know

1 Doesn’t Huber just made überexpensive custom guitars? These don’t look very posh…

Nik Huber certainly established a well-earned reputation for that style of guitar, but when the relatively affordable, stripped-down Krautster appeared in 2009, it signalled quite a change in style. As you can see, the new Piet is from that mould: the first Huber bolt-on without a carved top.

2 Aren’t they just cashing in on the offset trend?

The start-up Piet actually comes with Nik’s own-design wrapover bridge, but, yes, the Piet moves into offset territory and, using the highly-regarded Mastery vibrato, it gives the guitar quite a different voice.

3 Where are Huber guitars made?

In Rodgau, 20km south of Frankfurt, in Germany. The small team makes around 240 guitars each year with an ‘anything is possible’ range of options. In the UK Huber has four dealers: World Guitars,

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