❗Available - Hufschmid 'Tantalum' - The Celtic Mica❗
4.200,00 € EUR
Coming soon
Interested in getting this guitar directly from me? Just use the contact form to reach out - it's 3'900CHF (Swiss Francs) including a hardshell case. (shipping not included)
This unique creation is crafted from a single piece of impeccably quartersawn, highly figured Sapele mahogany for both the body and the neck, topped with a highly figured Swiss flame maple from Le Jura. The fingerboard is Crelicam ebony. A defining feature is the intricate Celtic-knot engraving on the top, inspired by my grandmother’s Scottish and Welsh heritage—bold, historic, and personal.
The guitar features custom laser-engraved Lace Alumitone pickups, fully noiseless and comfortable across many playing styles. Inside the control cavity, I created a copper verdigris finish to bring artistry to a place that’s usually hidden. This model blends craftsmanship, personal history, and technical innovation.
A centerpiece of this instrument is a NOS Soviet KSG-2G silver-mica capacitor (0.027 µF ±5%, 500 V). It sits in a dedicated chamber under plexiglass so the player can see it. In my wiring it’s used only in the tone control circuit, where the value is what matters.
About the capacitor:
The KSG-2G series was built in the USSR for high-reliability military and industrial electronics—radio, radar, and communications—where stability was critical. As a hermetically sealed silver-mica part, it offers exceptionally low loss, tight tolerance, and long-term stability, and it’s engineered far beyond the requirements of a guitar circuit (with a 500 V rating). It’s often confused online with paper-in-oil types like K40Y-9, but KSG is mica, not PIO.
This guitar is part of a small series I’m building that showcases this historical component in the same dedicated, visible way—treating it as both an engineering artifact and an aesthetic signature.
Specifications:
-One-piece, impeccably quartersawn, highly figured Sapele mahogany body and neck
-Highly figured Swiss flame maple top from Le Jura
-Crelicam ebony fingerboard, 24 frets, 25.5" scale, 12" radius
-Golden fretwire in C425 brass (88.5% Cu, 9.5% Zn, 2% Sn)
-Nut made from PEEK (Polyetheretherketone) – another of my own material developments
-Hipshot hardware and high-tolerance CTS pots
-Luminlay fingerboard inlays
-NOS Soviet KSG-2G silver-mica capacitor, 0.027 µF ±5%, 500 V, displayed in a plexiglass chamber; used only for the tone control
-Custom black-anodized Alumitone Deathbuckers with my logo laser-etched
-Antique copper-finished coin logo inlay on the back
-Copper shielding and 25 coats of hand-applied oil-based varnish br> © 1996-2025 Hufschmid Guitars All Rights Reserved.
This unique creation is crafted from a single piece of impeccably quartersawn, highly figured Sapele mahogany for both the body and the neck, topped with a highly figured Swiss flame maple from Le Jura. The fingerboard is Crelicam ebony. A defining feature is the intricate Celtic-knot engraving on the top, inspired by my grandmother’s Scottish and Welsh heritage—bold, historic, and personal.
The guitar features custom laser-engraved Lace Alumitone pickups, fully noiseless and comfortable across many playing styles. Inside the control cavity, I created a copper verdigris finish to bring artistry to a place that’s usually hidden. This model blends craftsmanship, personal history, and technical innovation.
A centerpiece of this instrument is a NOS Soviet KSG-2G silver-mica capacitor (0.027 µF ±5%, 500 V). It sits in a dedicated chamber under plexiglass so the player can see it. In my wiring it’s used only in the tone control circuit, where the value is what matters.
About the capacitor:
The KSG-2G series was built in the USSR for high-reliability military and industrial electronics—radio, radar, and communications—where stability was critical. As a hermetically sealed silver-mica part, it offers exceptionally low loss, tight tolerance, and long-term stability, and it’s engineered far beyond the requirements of a guitar circuit (with a 500 V rating). It’s often confused online with paper-in-oil types like K40Y-9, but KSG is mica, not PIO.
This guitar is part of a small series I’m building that showcases this historical component in the same dedicated, visible way—treating it as both an engineering artifact and an aesthetic signature.
Specifications:
-One-piece, impeccably quartersawn, highly figured Sapele mahogany body and neck
-Highly figured Swiss flame maple top from Le Jura
-Crelicam ebony fingerboard, 24 frets, 25.5" scale, 12" radius
-Golden fretwire in C425 brass (88.5% Cu, 9.5% Zn, 2% Sn)
-Nut made from PEEK (Polyetheretherketone) – another of my own material developments
-Hipshot hardware and high-tolerance CTS pots
-Luminlay fingerboard inlays
-NOS Soviet KSG-2G silver-mica capacitor, 0.027 µF ±5%, 500 V, displayed in a plexiglass chamber; used only for the tone control
-Custom black-anodized Alumitone Deathbuckers with my logo laser-etched
-Antique copper-finished coin logo inlay on the back
-Copper shielding and 25 coats of hand-applied oil-based varnish br> © 1996-2025 Hufschmid Guitars All Rights Reserved.