pedigree is evident

Nik Huber is well known in guitar circles as the guy responsible for lavish, no-expense-spared, set-neck and humbucker guitars, most notably the fifties meet aughts design of the Dolphin and the more traditional silhouette of the Orca. By using choice woods such as highly figured maple and Brazilian rosewood in addition to some insane inlay work that routinely features everything from abalone to precious metals, “subtle” is not a word typically associated with this German guitar maker. And yet, despite the figured mahogany bodies and abalone fingerboard dots, understated, and even subtle, are the first words that come to mind when searching for descriptions for the two rock n’ roll animals Nik sent us to check out – the Junior and the Special.