Nik Huber, one of the modern day doyens of high-end electrics, has unveiled the Krauster III, with the third-generation model assuming the shape and form of Huber’s Dolphin.

This, says Huber, was a natural evolution for the model. Players had already been putting in requests for a Dolphin/Krautster hybrid, with the German builder obliging and adapting the Krautster recipe – ie, mahogany body, curly maple neck, HB/P-90 pickup configuration – for the Dolphin’s neo T-style body shape.

The result is an electric guitar that looks like it could have come out of the late ‘50s or early ‘60s golden age and yet is built to order and in small batches in the 21st century.