Novo Serus H2 Dealer Ltd. Faded Cherry Burst (2026, new)

Novo Serus H2 Dealer Ltd. 2026 — sound, look and feel, all of it.

Dennis Fano and his team in Nashville keep moving the goalposts in modern guitar building, but what they put together for the Poland Guitar Fest 2026 goes further than usual. You can feel the care that went into this Dealer LTD Chambered Serus H2 from the first second. It's an instrument for people who pay attention.

The foundation is a tempered pine body, chambered out in a properly involved bit of routing. The scales stop at a remarkable 2.90 kg — a dream weight that spares your back and gives the guitar an acoustic liveliness that's hard to match. On top of that resonant body sits a beautifully figured maple top, shaped with Novo's distinctive, sculpted German carve. The wafer-thin nitro in classic Faded Cherry Burst shows the grain off perfectly, and with Novo's tasteful light distress work the whole thing comes across like a well-played vintage piece with plenty of soul. The back and sides in matching Faded Cherry and the cream pickguard round it off.

The neck is tempered maple too, and that chunky 'C' (.880" at the first fret) fills your hand without ever feeling like hard work. The board is deep, dark East Indian rosewood with classic MOTO dots, and thanks to the compound radius (9.5"–14") and 22 perfectly dressed Jescar medium nickel/silver frets your fingers just go where you send them. The unbleached bone nut and precise Novo 18:1 tuners keep it rock solid in tune.

Now the heart of it. With two Lollar Low Wind Imperials, this Serus lands somewhere between a humbucker Tele with real push and a clean, transparent old burst. The Low Wind Imperials pass on the acoustic resonance of that chambered body with superb note separation, fast attack and silky highs. The secret weapon, though, is the wiring: alongside the usual volume and tone, Novo has fitted a dedicated bass cut. You really have to hear this one. Ease the bass cut in and the low end thins out gradually and very musically, and the humbuckers turn into wirier, extremely dynamic near-single-coil voices without losing their character. From fat, singing Les Paul sustain to the spark of a good Tele, it's all in there, and all of it on a dial. Genuinely addictive.

If you're after an uncompromising boutique guitar with real mojo, a sensational 2.9 kg on the scales and this much tonal range, this Dealer LTD is where you stop looking. One of the highlights of the Poland Guitar Fest 2026.