SOLD: 2012 Höfner New President - Sunburst - hand-built by Thomas Stuhlein and Dieter Fischer

danishbacon

Höfner New President Archtop Jazz guitar from 2012, sunburst finish in good used condition

This guitar was handmade and signed in Germany by masterbuilder Thomas Stühlein and has the added bonus of having had the carved top signed by Dieter Fischer who headed up the Höfner workshop at the time. Comes with the original deluxe hard case and paperwork - the case used to have a hygrometer which is gone. 

It's a high-quality and highly regarded modern German Archtop with a solid carved European spruce top and flamed maple (anigree) laminate back and sides. 

Ebony, 9.5" radius fingerboard with 22 frets, a 645mm (25.4") scale and a nut width of 43.6mm (1 23/32 ") without inlays.
The 16" body has two F- holes an ebony bridge and tailpiece, a floating Höfner Diamond Gold neck pickup and a volume and tone control on the ebony pickguard. The bridge is beautifully hand-carved ebony.

The body and neck have black / white / black bindings and the traditional Höfner head has a lily and logo inlays and Schaller tuners. 
Nitro-cellulose finish with some checking and a few small dings throughout. It's well set up, has a beautiful and loud acoustic tone and plays brilliantly plugged in. The frets have been crowned and levelled at some point and there are filing marks where someone rounded off the fret edges but this is not noticeable whilst playing, only on close inspection, which is why the guitar is set as good condition and not excellent. 

These retailed for around $5500 when they were last available.

£1850 posted now sold, thank you!

 

joeW

That’s a lovely looking archtop - for the price of USA strat !!! 

danishbacon

Thanks Joe, indeed - it's quite a 'buy' on a guitar that should probably cost a bit more.

DB1

Stunning looking thing Fred, as usual!

danishbacon

Thanks, Dave

Jazzy_Jake

It's hard to overstate that these are truely world class, hand made instruments. Amazingly beautiful too - look at that black binding! They have a very unique tone especially unplugged and very loud. If I'm not wrong, they are quite special among archtops as the neck join is very high on the fretboard, so you get good access to higher frets. GLWTS!

danishbacon

Jazzy_Jake said:

It's hard to overstate that these are truely world class, hand made instruments. Amazingly beautiful too - look at that black binding! They have a very unique tone especially unplugged and very loud. If I'm not wrong, they are quite special among archtops as the neck join is very high on the fretboard, so you get good access to higher frets. GLWTS!

Indeed, it's joined at 16th fret like Les Pauls. It's diaganally braced like old Strombergs and really packs a punch

danishbacon

Thanks for messages. I am open to trades but preferably for a small OM size acoustic or another Archtop that I’ve not tried before.

danishbacon

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Jalapeno

A beaut !

danishbacon

Thank you 3)

Strangefan

Thats my old guitar that is I just crossed references the grain, it used to belong to the guitar player from the temperence movement.
That is a great archtop. 

danishbacon

Nudge

danishbacon

Now sold, thanks all