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Musikmesse 2014: retro and boutique guitars

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By Jamie Dickson published 13 March 2014

We check out some show floor stunners

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Musikmesse 2014: retro and boutique guitars

Musikmesse 2014: retro and boutique guitars

Musikmesse 2014: Any guitar-heavy show will usually involve excessive salivating on our part, and Musikmesse 2014 is no different.

We took a stroll around the show and found some seriously stunning guitars out there.

Click through our gallery to see what we stumbled across...

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Tausch 665

Tausch 665

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Fender Custom Shop '52 Telecaster Heavy Relic

Fender Custom Shop '52 Telecaster Heavy Relic

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Fano Thinline Alt De Facto RB6

Fano Thinline Alt De Facto RB6

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Gibson Collector's Choice Dutchburst 1960 Les Paul

Gibson Collector's Choice Dutchburst 1960 Les Paul

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Gretsch Custom '62 Duo Jet Relic

Gretsch Custom '62 Duo Jet Relic

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Guild M-75 Ltd Edition Goldtop

Guild M-75 Ltd Edition Goldtop

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Koll Duo Glide with TV Jones pickups

Koll Duo Glide with TV Jones pickups

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Nick Huber Twangmeister with Joe Barden bridge pickup

Nick Huber Twangmeister with Joe Barden bridge pickup

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PRS Private Stock McCarty Singlecut prototype

PRS Private Stock McCarty Singlecut prototype

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Jamie Dickson is Editor-in-Chief of Guitarist magazine, Britain's best-selling and longest-running monthly for guitar players. He started his career at the Daily Telegraph in London, where his first assignment was interviewing blue-eyed soul legend Robert Palmer, going on to become a full-time author on music, writing for benchmark references such as 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and Dorling Kindersley's How To Play Guitar Step By Step. He joined Guitarist in 2011 and since then it has been his privilege to interview everyone from B.B. King to St. Vincent for Guitarist's readers, while sharing insights into scores of historic guitars, from Rory Gallagher's '61 Strat to the first Martin D-28 ever made.

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