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2013

new guitars released in 2013

Gretsch G6118T 130th Anniversary

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To celebrate Gretsch’s 130th anniversary, the Gretsch Custom Shop introduces the beautiful new G6118T 130th Anniversary model. Its 2 1/2″-deep single-cutaway three-ply maple body has a 15 1/2” lower bout, arched top and back, and trestle bracing. The guitar is a striking beauty with its two-tone gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish in Metallic Gold on the top and Black on the back and sides, with multiple silver-sparkle bindings.
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PRS SC245 McCarty Sunburst

PRS SC245

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PRS Guitars Brings the SC245 back into its lineup. The PRS SC245 is a vintage-inspired Singlecut perfect for more traditional single-cutaway players. The 24.5” scale length offers a loose, laid-back feel, but the guitar maintains a tight low end and snappy attack… Read More

 
Gibson DG-335 Dave Grohl

Gibson DG-335 Dave Grohl

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In September 2007, Gibson introduced the DG-335, designed in collaboration with the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl. It was discontinued recently. Grohl’s Inspired By DG-335 has the classic Firebird-style headstock with six-on-a-side tuners set into an ES-335 style semi-hollow body. The body of the guitar has stylish diamond f-holes and a double cutaway design. The inlays on the rosewood fretboard are acrylic split diamond which is a unique feature that remains from the original Trini Lopez model. The guitar was available in two colors – Pelham Blue and Ebony.
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Fender Select Telecaster Thinline

Fender Select Telecaster Thinline

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The Fender Select Telecaster Thinline presents a finely crafted take on the popular semi-hollow version of our very first guitar model. Stylish and light, it has a semi-hollow ash body with a beautiful flame maple top and hand-stained Violin Burst finish with gloss lacquer topcoat. Its modern “C”-shaped birdseye maple neck has a satin lacquer finish and Bi-Flex truss rod system. The compound radius birdseye maple fingerboard (9.5″-14″) has 22 medium jumbo frets and a gloss lacquer finish.
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Fender Select Carved Top Telecaster SH

Fender Select Carved Blackwood Top Telecaster SH

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The new Fender Select Carved Blackwood Top Telecaster SH is powerful, beautiful and light, with a chambered alder body, gorgeous carved Tasmanian blackwood top and hand-stained natural finish with gloss lacquer topcoat. Its modern “C”-shaped flame maple neck has a satin lacquer finish and Bi-Flex truss rod system; the compound radius rosewood fingerboard (9.5″-14″) has 22 medium jumbo frets… Read More

 
Fender Select Carved Maple-Top Jazzmaster HH Twilight Burst

Fender Select Carved Maple-Top Jazzmaster HH

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A striking new Jazzmaster model joins the Fender Select lineup in the powerful, gorgeous and light form of the Fender Select Carved Maple Top Jazzmaster HH. A distinctive high-end version of a venerable Fender classic, it boasts a potent pair of new Wide Range Special humbucking pickups and the innovative new “channel-bound” rosewood fingerboard. The Fender Select Carved Maple Top Jazzmaster HH also has a chambered alder body with a carved flame maple top in elegant hand-stained Cayenne Burst and Twilight Burst finishes with gloss-lacquer topcoat.
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Fender Select Stratocaster HSS Tobacco Sunburst

Fender Select Stratocaster HSS

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The 2013 edition of the Fender Select Stratocaster HSS ups the ante on its 2012 predecessor with several striking new features. First among these is the “channel-bound” Rosewood fingerboard, a brand-new Fender innovation in which the compound-radius (9.5″-14″) Rosewood fingerboard is “inlaid” into the thick modern “C”-shaped Maple neck… Read More

 

Kauer Starliner

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Introducing the Starliner, the first completely new Kauer model in the last 4 years. The Starliner is the culmination of 2 years of research and devolopment. Kauer set out with a simple goal, to build a guitar that would appeal to traditionalists without sacrificing the aesthetic and ergonomic benchmarks of the Kauer Daylighter. Using some prized vintage instruments as a tonal benchmark, the Starliner achieves a perfect blend of vintage tone with modern playability and stability.
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Gretsch G7539T Billy Duffy White Falcon

Gretsch G7539T Billy Duffy White Falcon

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Gretsch release the G7593T Billy Duffy White Falcon guitar, which has immediately become one of the most unique and bewitching White Falcon guitars ever made. Featuring much of what Falcon fans hold dear, The Cult guitarist’s inimitable instrument has several unique aesthetic differences that separate it from the rest of the “Falcon” flock, namely its period-correct ’70s Baldwin-era styling, pure White gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish, V-shaped Falcon headstock, Silver Sparkle binding, custom wound hot “Black Top” Filter’Tron pickups with three-point adjustable ’70s-style metal bezels and Duffy’s preferred Bigsby tailpiece.
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Gibson SG Deluxe Lime Burst

Gibson SG Deluxe

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NEW for 2013… the SG Deluxe, a stunningly upscale SG from Gibson USA. Rather than let dressy Les Pauls have all the fun, the SG Deluxe adds a Grade-AA figured maple top to a versatile feature set that includes three humbucking pickups, Bigsby tailpiece, bound headstock, and bound 24-fret rosewood fingerboard with Deluxe split-diamond inlays, along with locking Grover tuners.
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Fender Custom Shop 1956 Relic Stratocaster

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The Fender Custom Shop 1956 Relic Stratocaster is an historic instrument with a custom twist. Fender have taken one of their greatest instruments and added color and features to make the 2013 version something that could have been built in 1956 but wasn’t. They started with a lightweight ash body, picked one of the favorite and most requested neck shapes (the 10/’56) and rounded the instrument off with a set of Fat ’50s pickups. Finished with gold hardware and an anodized gold pickguard, the 1956 Relic Strat is a beauty to hear, see and play. Available (for the first time) in three new colors.
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Gibson Angus Young SG Ebony

Gibson Angus Young SG

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Angus Young’s incendiary tone has inspired wave after wave of rock guitar heroes, and turned on countless players to the power of his seminal guitar of choice, the SG. Now the Gibson USA Angus Young SG puts all the tone and playability of this classic double-cutaway into a signature model made to Young’s own specs. The result is an instrument with all the punch, crunch and sizzle that Angus achieves with his treasured SG, in a guitar that’s still well within reach of the workaday rocker.
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