Max Guitar - Nik Huber Factory Tour
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2014
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Take a look inside Nik Huber's workshop and see how his guitar.
Nik Huber, founder and managing director of Nik Huber Guitars, carries on a more than 100 year old family tradition.
In 1896 a heritage of woodworking expertise was born to proud parent Nikolaus Huber in a small village in Southern Bavaria. Today Nikolaus Huber IV carries that expertise forward in the form of exquisite guitars. More than a 100 years of gathering knowledge and passing it on from one generation to the next makes a remarkable difference in a fast paced world like today's.
Nik-Huber-Guitars was founded by Nik Huber in 1996. Since then, the company grew slowly but constantly. Today a team of 5 highly skilled specialists is building around 120 instruments a year. All hand-crafted.
Since the first attendance at the Frankfurt Musik Messe in 1997, Nik Huber Guitars gained a worldwide reputation as a serious manufacturer of high-class electric-guitars.
In 1999 the expanding company moved to a commercial park in its hometown, Rodgau - 20 km south of Frankfurt/Germany, and resides now in a fully, state-of-the-art equipped workshop. 
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Look at the organization and attention to detail. I love Germans and admire their admirable traits. They should be proud.
Despite all the negative comments this is a great video to see the nuts and bolts of a guitar maker. Top stuff. If I had the money...... I would
Thank you for that amazing peek into one of the top luthiers in the world.
That was an excellent factory tour. A factory on a human scale. Very nice.
I have a Krautster II and its both beautiful to look at and plays and sounds amazing. My guitar has the copper finish and lightly aged ... and the guitar has amazing sustain. I use it with a Swart AST pro amp and together the tone is perfect for me ☺
Can't help watching this again!
My son tried an Orca 59 today. A beautifully built and looking guitar, fantastic playability, very comfortable neck and sounded great. If the funds were available then we would have bought it. Excellent instruments.
Amazing workshop.
Excellent video. Any LP style guitar that has a mahogany body really comes alive with a maple neck. Adds a sparkle and brilliance that you just cannot get from an all mahogany guitar.
The reason I bought my PRS Private Stock was the ability to have legal Brazilian Rosewood... I didn't know there were options for the same in the EU.. I thought it was a "hard no" over there.
Impressive thank you for the shop tour.
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from this point aus...nice linguistic mixture. btw very cool video about a company 10km away from where i live. ..and didn't even know for a long time. ...until i started playing and reading guitar magazines last fall
Excellent video.
Thanks for this interesting video on Nik Huber Guitars.
I think it helped Robert to get this chance,because Nik's his wife is of Dutch origin.Also there were more business lines in history,between Den Haag and German guitar builders,like Ronald Suiker,a musicshop owner/bisnessman(like Servaas),he went over different times with a lorry bus,to buy and pick-up loads of guitars from Framus, who were gone bankrupt.
Just discovered this video. Really cool. Can’t help myself but feeling that Robbert is also shareholder of this guitarbuilder brand. At least he behaves like It is his company. But man what a great company. So I can imagine...
Great!
A very informative video. Thank you for these insights into your workshop.
Wood is the material that is the most variable and also easy to work with, not to imagine the manufacture of stringed instruments without it.
In comparison, acrylic or plastic or any light metal often has only one material density, which does not really invite experimentation with these materials.
Great video! Dream of owning a Nik Huber Krautster II ... expensive though...
Loving all that paint applied to the neck joint hahaha
+JgHaverty Its masked with a tape similar in colour to the wood.
I was going to buy a PRS until I saw this!!!
Exceptionally beautiful instruments!
I know im asking the wrong place but does someone know a tool to log back into an Instagram account..?
I was stupid lost my account password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me!
@Roberto Graham instablaster =)
Wasn't expecting Nik to be so young
Yes
A guitar that doubles as a marimba, cool.
Does he keep the "wood room" humidified?
This should be titled 25 minutes of looking at wood.
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That’s crazy, who’d have guessed that tone was in the wood. 🤣 I guess all the pickup only advocates will be watching the Ibanez videos. 🤔
Did Nick Huber's dad make guitars before Nick?
no guarantee, but i think he was a carpenter with a huge woodstash, which his son then used to make guitars.
JazzRadioFfm I bet PRS would love to raid his stash!
sorry what maple is the second you wet with the sponge? min 14:00
+Jumpii Trotta Thats a burled maple.
He says it's burled.
thnx guys!
Nice video. The rock guitar beginning is short, but very tiring.
So that´s where the guitar of Matthijs G. is born, now I finally see you in person! I also build electric guitars (in Spain: ruclips.net/video/8b-y-HFo07c/видео.html) so I really was interested in seeing your video. Very nice. Maybe we one day will meet in person, that would be nice. Best regards from Extremadura.
You use the SPLINTER wood too (use it all), many cut away when they make furniture, but you talk about it IS SO SPECIAL, its the end under under the bark and it is NOT cool to have in your new kitchen or livingroom furnitures (guitar for 300.599.000 kr) HA HA
all chinese stuff in drawers ? And then some top in the seasoned room were not straight planed! it was terrible to wathc it. I hope for the guy to have some controlled temperature from moisture !!
More tone wood bollocks. If tone wood mattered why do so many guitarists swap pickups to get a different sound? Want more treble? turn a knob on your amp. Also banging a piece of timber and listening to it makes no difference to the sound when the wood is cut, shaped, glued then lacquered to make an instrument. Electric guitars get their sound from the pickups, the amp, the speakers and any effects you use. Wood comes last in tone if at all.
+Tiomkin Ng ''Wood comes last in tone if at all.'' Absolute RUBBISH!!!! You obviously have very little understanding of resonance and stringed instruments in general.
That's why you can get two Strats (for example) that were made on the same day some time in the early 60's from the same species of woods with exactly the same hardware on them and one can sound like shite while the other will sing like a bird. It's all down to the wood!
Obviously the pickups and Amp will contribute to the end sound but they're elements that can be changed to suit the players preference (and THAT is why people swap pickups out!) but once a guitar is built there's no changing the wood it's been built from.
After over 20 years, I have not found that the type of timber matters for playing metal. If you can pick out a guitar on a blind test and tell me what wood or even pickups are used I may change my opinion but it hasn't happened yet. Older pickups will vary in the manufacturing process as it was very inconsistent in the number of winds etc which will give a slightly diff tone on the same model guitar. I select the woods for weight and for appearance. It appears to be more of an emotional attachment musicians have to try to make sense out of the options available. Lastly, it is your fingers which is a major part of your sound. I once saw Mick Ronson switch from a LP Custom to a Fender Tele, he basically sounded like Mick Ronson.
David Williams LOL. Just as I thought. Too fucking stupid to refute anything I said.
If you look at the physics, the wood is the last factor in tone of electrics. For accoustics, the wood is a major factor. There r videos, just educate yourself about what really creates the tone, you'll be a better player
wood makes a difference. if it resonates, it first takes energy off the oscillation, but as the wood start swinging, it feeds the "new" sound back into the strings. that's what happens when you plug your guitar in (add some gain) and knock on different places of the instrument. the sound you get is the knock + wood tone, which will influence the final tone of your instrument, even if first-glance-physics makes it look like it actually takes away the energy (which it might); but the important part is the feeding-back of the wood-manipulated sound, which you do hear and which is different in every intrument. i do think, though that most expensive wood is just expensive because it's rare and not because it's acustically of any advantage.
also: nik huber's guitars are just ridiculously well made. never saw a guitar with any kind of flaw. take any gibson custom €3000+ and you will see how crappy they look next to a handbuilt NH. these instruments sound so badass, not necessarily because the wood is a million years old, but because of the way it is processed. i wonder when the fender/gibson-tulip-crisis will start...
These different types of wood look good but for solid body electric guitars they make no difference to the sound these people are either charlatans or delusional. When it comes to hollow body acoustic guitars I suppose the wood does make a difference but I'm only guessing.
Like nick says himself there it's all about the density of the individual piece. It does seem a bit coincidental that the most beautiful and expensive woods have the best tone.