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This is just wrong in so, so many ways....
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I just never really understood the whole "Relic Guitar" hullaboo...
For those of you that don't know, there has been a marketing push over the last few years to take a new guitar, fresh off the assembly line, and rough it up to make it look like it is decades old and has been played for countless hours.
Take for example Fender's Relic line of guitars and basses. They rough up the guitar for ya' and charge you through the nose to do so.
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Fender Deluxe American Strat - Excellent guitar, a ton of players are playing every night with this axe.
Cost - About $1000.00
Fender '62 Strat Relic - I'm sure this is still an excellent guitar. Add a few changes to the American strat to make it match the '62 model and then rough it up like it has been played since 1962...
Cost - $4700.00
So, for $3700 more dollars, you can have a guitar that "looks" like a road warrior.
But Why?
Do players that buy these want people to think they've put the hours in practicing and playing to make the guitar look that good?
If they do, it probably will be obvious to the listener that they have not put the time in, at least not the time to make the guitar look as rough as the one above.
I just don't get it. Fill me in, if you know the answer.
But people dig this stuff. I found the video below on YouTube (which is what started this though process). It will show you how to turn your guitar into a so called "relic".
Take my advice though - rough it up yourself through years of practice and sweat up on stage, not with sand paper, dirt and a lighter.
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I just never really understood the whole "Relic Guitar" hullaboo...
For those of you that don't know, there has been a marketing push over the last few years to take a new guitar, fresh off the assembly line, and rough it up to make it look like it is decades old and has been played for countless hours.
Take for example Fender's Relic line of guitars and basses. They rough up the guitar for ya' and charge you through the nose to do so.
Check this out...
Fender Deluxe American Strat - Excellent guitar, a ton of players are playing every night with this axe.
Cost - About $1000.00
Fender '62 Strat Relic - I'm sure this is still an excellent guitar. Add a few changes to the American strat to make it match the '62 model and then rough it up like it has been played since 1962...
Cost - $4700.00
So, for $3700 more dollars, you can have a guitar that "looks" like a road warrior.
But Why?
Do players that buy these want people to think they've put the hours in practicing and playing to make the guitar look that good?
If they do, it probably will be obvious to the listener that they have not put the time in, at least not the time to make the guitar look as rough as the one above.
I just don't get it. Fill me in, if you know the answer.
But people dig this stuff. I found the video below on YouTube (which is what started this though process). It will show you how to turn your guitar into a so called "relic".
Take my advice though - rough it up yourself through years of practice and sweat up on stage, not with sand paper, dirt and a lighter.
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Agree with Jason, wrong, wrong, wrong. The strat is a beautiful instrument, as is. I want mine to look good. I wipe it clean once in a while. If it gets a bung, OK. It does get used a lot. But jeez! I suspect that after a while damage makes it sound damaged. It's just physics...
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Here's an analogy: (paraphrasing an old saying about antiques) The scratches and dents on the old family heirloom made by other people long ago give the piece "character". The scratches and dents you made recently are called "damage".
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You know, I can understand buying a real 1962 strat that has been played hard for 40+ years. That guitar will have soul in it.
But to take a fresh guitar and try to make it look like it has soul, I'm not getting it.
But to your point, rather than call it "damage", I like to call it "adding character".
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How dumb.
Those bumps and bruises have to be earned, not spray painted.
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