I love working with walnut. It has a beautiful fragrance and smells almost like walnuts taste.
Those are both beautiful guitars, but I prefer the gloss finish on the Kauer.
I'm also fairly sure that walnut has more soul than other woods.
I like that it's a Tele layout. And the pickups are cool. But other than that I just don't dig the look of the wood. Nor am I crazy about contours on Teles. So, I'd pass on this one.