I’ve spotted some really interesting new Suhr Moderns of late (possibly due to waiting for my own custom ) that I thought I’d share. It’s always nice to look at lovely guitars

Suhr Modern Antique Olympic White

There’s something classy about a white guitar and maple neck, I’m not much of a fan of maple necks to be fair, but the look seems to harken back to old Hendrix Fender strats etc.

This guitar has similar features to the recent Guthrie Govan Antique Modern in that it has a Basswood body with maple cap finished in Nitro Cellulose with a roasted maple neck. The body has also been aged for a slightly relic vibe:

The guitar is available from Haggerty’s Music for $3416. Their site also has some more juicy pictures.

Suhr Modern Pro Series M5/M6/M7/M8

Suhr have introduced a new line of Pro Series Moderns with the M5/M6/M7/M8 models. As with all Pro Series Suhr models these are not built to spec like a custom but use the same materials, finishing and skill that goes into those customs offering players amazing value for money.

The new Pro Series Moderns feature Basswood bodies with stunning maple caps with maple necks shaped to the GG Modern Elliptical .800 – .850 profile. The fingerboard has a 10″-14″ compound radius made of maple on the M6 and M8 models or pau ferro on the M5 and M7 models. It’s also great to see that all models come with Stainless Steel Jumbo frets.

The M5/M6 models are equipped with two humbuckers and a recessed gotoh floyd whilst the M7/M8 models have a HSH pickup configuration with a gotoh 510 six saddle trem.

The models pictured here are available from the fantastic Peach Guitars for £1999.99 each.

Suhr have done it again offering some amazing instruments that I’m sure will sell very well!

Great to see that the Andy Wood signature Suhr has been added to the Suhr website with some gorgeous pictures and spec sheet.

Here’s what the guys at Suhr had to say about the guitar:

The goal of the Andy Wood Modern was to offer an incredible looking and sounding instrument utilizing the very best woods while offering simplicity and surprising versatility in one stunning package. We believe we have achieved this goal as this guitar pretty much sums up who Andy is as a player and musician. The sound is full, warm, and smooth while still having plenty of cut, bite, and punch.

Andy picked Mahogany for its mid-midrange emphasis on the body back and the neck while choosing “5A” Quilted Maple top for its aesthetic beauty and tonal brilliance. Mahogany neck and Pau Ferro fingerboard add definition and tightness so the notes literally shoot off the guitar during Andy’s patented high-speed runs. Like all discerning great players, Andy cares as much about the tactile response of an instrument as how it sounds and this wood combination turned out to be the perfect fit for Andy’s demanding style.

The neck shape is the slim Modern Elliptical .780-.830 which plays fast but has enough girth for Andy to really hang on to during big string bends. Really thin neck profiles tend to tire out your fretting hand after an extended playing session, but the profile on this neck is full enough for your hand to feel comfortable even after hours of playing. The flat 16″ radius facilitates speedy legato and tapping licks while the Jumbo Stainless Steel frets feel glassy smooth during string bends while providing years of reliability.

The pickup configuration and the electronics look deceptively simple: two humbuckers, one volume pot, one tone pot and pickup selector. But this simplicity has a few hidden features which helps Andy wring out more than that meets the eye. First, the Mega 5-way gives Andy the split neck HB single-coil tone and the combination of two inside coils of both HB’s for that in-between “out-of-phase” single-coil sound. Combine these sounds with the normal HB tones of the neck HB alone, both HB’s in series, and the bridge HB for over-the-top leads and you have one very versatile axe that can cover virtually any musical style.

But there is one more feature that can turn this modern rock-shred machine into a convincing county twang guitar. Affectionately called the “Redneck Mod” by Andy, the push-pull tone pot converts the bridge HB in series to parallel wiring. The sound is noticeably thinner than that all-out HB but it is still hum-canceling. What you get is a fat T-style single-coil sound that’s bright but never grating on the ears. This is where Andy can go into his full-blown country and bluegrass mode, adding a sound not typically found on guitars of this style.

The pickups are the Suhr DSH+ humbucker in the bridge position and the DSV humbucker in the neck position. Andy chose the double-screw pickups for their smoothness in the initial pick attack. Andy has such an amazingly precise and razor-sharp pick attack that he felt the double-screw pickups would smoothen out the attack and he was correct. The “DS” pickups have smoother high-mids with less lows and highs than their “SS” counterparts and they were exactly what Andy needed to complement his technique and style.

The hardware consists of the Gotoh 510TS-FE1 solid-saddle fulcrum tremolo bridge that is blocked in the trem cavity so that it only goes down. It is not floating so Andy would still be able to keep playing if he was to break a string. But there is another reason that the bridge is blocked and this feature is hidden behind the headstock. It’s called the D-Thing from Sperzel and it allows Andy to instantly switch to Drop-D tuning, adding yet even more versatility.

The stunning ‘Dark Inferno Burst’ is a finish that Andy requested on his own. He looked at our own ‘Fireburst’ finish and asked us if we can make it even more intense with a darker sunburst edges. The result is indeed as the name suggests – a finish that looks too hot to handle. This is a burning axe in more ways than one! The matching color figured Maple headstock with Mother of Pearl logo rounds out the look with a touch of class.

Such a classy guitar and personally exciting for me as the spec is similar to what I’m getting in my own custom organised through the lovely people at Peach Guitars!

Models have been available to order in the shops for a few months now and seem to retailing around the £2899.00 mark.

Chris George demos the updated Class5 combo, with new Low Power Mode function as well as the new Class5 5 Watt head and C110 1 x 10″ cabinet:

The band “Impact Fuze’, featuring Fedor Dosumov on guitar, playing at Musikmesse:

Yet more Suhr players!

There is no escape mwahahaha!

Demo video of the some new ENGL amps at Musikmesse 2011.

Noticed quite a few demo players using Suhrs, I approve