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ForThe Hahn 910 is a beautiful workhorse that has its own thing going on, and is a lot of guitar for its price.
For several years now, the name Hahn is likely to have come up in any conversation about high-end T-style guitars. The man behind the brand, Chihoe Hahn, is a veritable Tele nut, but with a recent move further upriver from his old premises just outside NYC to the picturesque Hudson Valley town of Newburgh, New York, Hahn has also ventured into more original creations, such as this Model 910. Innately “Tele-like” in the broad sense, it’s actually a very different guitar where it counts—and once you plug it in—even if it relies on many upgraded-Tele concepts and constructs to get where it’s going.
As hinted by the stylishly down-swept lower horn, the 910 is really a long way outside T-town once you get in close. Excepting, of course, the bolt-on maple neck with unbound rosewood fretboard, and Hahn’s stylish ivory-lacquered headstock. It’s worth noting, however, that even this is attached with Hahn’s own 0.10” stainless-steel neck plate—and, like any other Hahn I’ve checked out, it’s attached in a neck pocket so tight you can carry the guitar around by the neck even after removing the mounting screws. The neck profile is an extremely comfortable rounded-C that’s .85” deep at the 1st fret, and a hybrid 1 21/32” wide across the bone nut. But it all gets more overtly original once we roll down to the body. Constructed from a single piece of mahogany with a lush, luminous grain, the 2”-deep slab is heavily chambered toward the goal of a versatile semi-hollow-like tone, with the bonus of a light weight of 6.5 lbs. Hahn has taken the 910 on a playful turn with a deep-red top finish set