
Our Philosophy
We are buying and selling vintage and used guitars, basses and amplifiers.
We are not working with any supplier of new gear (besides accessories) and are independent from the so-called music industry. Most of the guitars, basses and amps in our inventory we bought directly from private owners, collectors or musicians. We are primarily looking for instruments in all original, very good to excellent condition in their original case.
As a GuitarPoint customers you can be sure that the instrument you bought has been handpicked, carefully inspected and verified as an authentic piece of music history.


When it comes to purchasing vintage instruments nothing is more important than knowing your things. A lot can happen in the life of a many decades old instrument. The world-wide-web is full of private sales ads and auctions and many times even the sellers doesn’t know all details about what they offer. Very often the seeming “bargain” turns out to be a bad buy – sometimes years after the purchase. The higher the value, the more contradictions could appear when you take a closer look. This is why we painstakingly analyze all guitars before we buy them to verify their originality and value.


We take every instrument apart and carefully clean it from the remnants of it’s previous owner(s). We take pictures of all parts and details to proof the guitars originality and authenticate it’s year of manufacture. The pictures are presented to the customer together with the instrument*.
All vintage instruments* also come with an individual hand signed instrument profile document containing all relevant data and measurements such as serial numbers, potentiometer date-codes, pickup resistance, list of all hardware parts and weight.

*(Please note: pictures and profiles are included with electric guitars and basses made prior to 1974 only).
We are GuitarPoint

Simon Gauf
CEO
20 years in guitar business – whether in retail, distribution, product management, purchase or as a guitar player, Simon, the GuitarPoint CEO arrived in vintage guitar heaven. He swapped the office desk for his passion and love of vintage guitars and carries on the GuitarPoint heritage- always on the run chasing the next guitar!

Fred Hauschild
Sales
„Mr. Marshall“ Fred owned almost every Gibson or Fender guitar model in his life as musician and guitar aficionado! He took apart thousands of vintage guitars for maintenance and is a walking serial number, guitar dating and Marshall library! Be sure that played every guitar we have in stock and knows how it sounds! Got questions? Ask Fred!

Johannes Stuhl
Luthier
Johannes is a highly skilled and educated guitar luthier who takes care of all our guitars in our store workshop. We also offer maintenance and repair for customer guitars. If your vintage guitar needs a professional refret job, repair or setup – make sure you talk to Johannes!

Petra Alder
Mrs. GuitarPoint
The heart and soul of GuitarPoint! Petra takes care of literally everything and more. You might catch her selling a 50s Strat on the phone, getting an export permit to Indonesia while doing accounting and welcome a Rockstar-friend to the shop all at once.