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Builder Profile: Teuffel Guitars

Shawn Hammond

How one of guitardom’s most forward-thinking and meticulous luthiers transitioned from traditional designs to museum-quality dream machines.
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When assembling pickups, Teuffel first inserts the alnico magnets in a magnetic vice.


He then glues on the bobbin’s bottom plate.


And then removes the assembly from the vise, flips it over, and glues on the top plate.


More glue is then added to reinforce the structure.


The magnets are then insulated with a thin layer of tape.


Pickups being wound onto a bobbin.


Potted Niwa pickups setting in a vacuum chamber.


Teuffel soldering a Niwa humbucker.


Niwa pickups being assembled in their wood covers prior to fi nal shaping.


Niwa pickups (with a subtle leaf motif) after installation.

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Roseanne Salyer
on 02/27/2012 		Kirk Hammett played his on their Death Magnetic tour. Most notably on Judas Kiss, Copenhagen, August, 2010. It has an awesome sound.
Vulcan Meld
on 01/07/2012 		Ulrich “Uli” Teuffel should license his designs to Sci-Fi movies, they have the look. They look odd but I bet they sound good.
Matt Touchard
on 01/06/2012 		The Teuffel Birdfish is the absolute best guitar I have ever played. And I have owned, collected, played everything in the last thirty years.
Doc
on 12/29/2011 		Maybe he cold get Ricardo Montalban to do the ad. Chrysler, there german right??? The new 1979 LeBaron, a sight to behold!!! i can hear it now, ' boss de guitar , de guitar' thanks Tattoo....

on 12/27/2011 		doc... one conservative ass douche
Craig Morrisobn
on 12/26/2011 		very nice, i'd love to record with one if anybody still s feels a need to get me a guitar for Christmas! craig Morrison roundtownsound
doc
on 12/24/2011 		The Star Trek Series, the Vulcan, the Klingon, and the Romulan, three ugly ass guitars, where no man has played before.
Stitch
on 12/22/2011 		Freaky.



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