Hahn Guitars 228

Tele style
2008 Winter NAMM
2 piece alder body
Vintage style maple neck with rosewood fretboard
Nitrocellulose finish (pink)
Lollar pickups
(see previous review for more details)

I play mostly rock, blues, and jazz. This is a tele style guitar, but the sound could suit just about any style as long as you don't need a tremolo bridge. I play this through a Carr Mercury preferably without effects although at times I'm forced to play through an MI audio blues pro so that I can play at a decent volume level and not annoy the lady who lives downstairs and likes to complain about everything.
This was arguably one of the best sounding guitars at Winter NAMM 2008. The tone is incredible and talk about sustain. I would give the sound of this guitar a 10+ score

The build of this guitar is awesome. It's solidly built. Top notch wood selections for tone and everything fit to perfection. After playing the guitar for a couple months I had to make a truss rod adjustment and the guitar responded exactly the way you wished all guitars would to a slight adjustment. And the neck is fit into the body extremely tight.

This is guitar is made to be played and to last a lifetime. Absolutely no cheap made in China parts on this sucker. I'm pretty sure Chihoe is Korean so I don't think he'll be offended by this comment. Every part of this guitar is absolutely solid down to the heavy knurled volume and tone knobs.

Chihoe is a great guy and he put's his heart and soul into every guitar he makes, so I'm sure he'll back up his work.

I've been playing for 17 years mostly accoustic, but I've been playing electric for almost as long. I own a number of guitars, but most notably a Rainsong WS1000 and a Brian Moore i9p with Bill Lawrence and John Suhr pickups in it (the ducan's it came with sucked). I had no intention of buying a guitar at this past NAMM show but a friend of mine heard Chihoe Hahn's guitars earlier in the show and told me about the sound, so we spent over an hour on the last day of the show trying to find him since my friend couldn't remember the name of the guitar or the booth location. To try to make a long story short, I heard the guitar, played the guitar, walked around and listened to a lot of other guitars, and the more guitars I heard the better this sounded. My friends persuaded me to buy the guitar and I have absolutely no regrets.
This guitar has converted me into an electric guitar player. I've never played a guitar with so much soul. It makes me wanna play and practice and it brings my soul into my playing. I know it's a lot to say about a guitar, but I'm not exagerating. I absolutely love this guitar and can't imagine wanting another guitar, unless Chihoe starts making strats. Bottom line; this guitar is an absolute tone monster.

This guitar was built in late 2007 for the 2008 NAMM Show

21 Frets I believe they are nickel frets. 6105 Medium Jumbo

Body is a 2 piece swamp ash

Standard 3 way Tele style control, 1 Volume, 1 Tone

2 Pickups:
Neck ??? Duncan Antiquity ???55 Telecaster, Bridge ??? Duncan Custom Shop Handwound 5/2

2 Piece Swamp Ash Body very lightweight (7lbs, 2 oz) One Piece Maple Quartersawn

100% Nitrocellulose Finish in Molly Green, paper thin. Very light gloss body, high gloss on the neck

This is a Telecaster body style.

Hardware:

The Bridge is a Hahn Stainless Steel decoupled, with Hahn Compensated Brass Saddles, Hahn Stainless Steel Neck Plate, Hahn Stainless Steel control plate, Hahn Brass Flat Barrell heavy knurl knobs, Polished Aluminum jack can/plate. Chihoe Hahn builds all of these. They are all amazing 1st class quality.

Tuners are Kluson/Gotoh vintage style.

This all comes in a beautiful G&G Vintage style cream colored tolex case.

Music style is traditional and modern blues, occasionally classic rock. This guitar fills the bill for a stinging or roaring telecaster.

Amps - I have a Swart Atomic Space Tone, Fender 60th Anniversary Woody Pro Ltd., completely modified Class A Crate Vintage 30 in a hand-built dovetailed joint point cab with a Celestion V-30 speaker, modified Fender Blues Jr. with a Celetion V-30 speaker.

Effects ??? Xotic BB pre-amp, Swart Atomic Boost, Maxon OD808, BK Butler-Tubeworks Tube Driver, Boss DD6 delay, Ibanez AD9 delay, Vox Union Jack Wah Wah, Danelectro Chorus.

Guitar has amazing rich bright thick tone across all spectrums. This will produce any kind of Tele sound you want or need and then some that you didn???t think were capable from a Tele style guitar.

The guitar was set up ok. Considering it was schlepped across the country for the NAMM show, played and displayed there it played very well.

The pickups were set up correctly.

The guitar did need a setup upon return home and some of the frets needed to be tweaked but this could have been from expansion and contraction of the neck wood with multiple trips. I had my local luthier set the guitar up the way I like it. It plays magnificently.

I have played out with this guitar and got many comments about what kind of Tele was that you were playing.

The hardware is all hand made by Chihoe Hahn himself. The quality oozes from this guitar.

The Nitro finish which is partially resonsible for the way this guitar sounds has already started to check in the coolest vintage sort of way.

I always play gigs with multiple guitars for tonality changes but if I had to play a gig with just this guitar it would be no problem.

Chihoe Hahn has been accessible and he returns all calls and e-mails the same day. I paid to have the guitar setup the way I wanted it.

I???m not worried about the warranty. I???m absolutely certain if I need anything Chihoe Hahn will backup his work for years to come.

I have been playing for over 37 years. I own 2 Tom Anderson's and a Custom Shop Fender Strat.

If this guitar were lost or stolen I would hunt th eperson down to ends of the earth and make him pay.

Just the way the guitar plays and resonated is amazing. I just recently played a friends John Suhr Antiqued Tele and an original 58 Tele on the road for a business trip, this guitar kills them both. I hate to ahve to put it down.

Buy a Hahn guitar. It will be the best Telecaster style you will ever play. Of course you can buy an original Tele from the 50's and pay more than a nice car or in some cases a small house but they might not sound as good and be as reliable as this guitar.