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What do you guys thinks about "relics"?

Sir SchmoopY (Gimmpy) said:
battle damage is cool, but its retarded to buy a pre-aged ax, its gotta be scuffed scraped and scratched in use.
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Agreed. Although, I gotta say they do look good and play good (from what I've tried). And the length these guys go to make it look real is insane and most of the time they do achieve a real look. All unnecessary though, IMO.
 
I don't get it either, I'f I got a reliced guitar, i'd feel compelled to refinnish it

a buddy of mine bought a relic from these guys for almost 3 grand  http://wildwoodguitars.com/

It sounds good, But looks like some dumbass at the beach didn't take care of his stuff
 
I played one bass for twenty years, hardly marked it.  :icon_scratch: Me? ...aged forty years at least  :icon_jokercolor:
 
Alfang said:
I don't get it either, I'f I got a reliced guitar, i'd feel compelled to refinnish it

a buddy of mine bought a relic from these guys for almost 3 grand  http://wildwoodguitars.com/

It sounds good, But looks like some dumbass at the beach didn't take care of his stuff
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Classic !  :laughing7:

I am amazed there is such a market for relics. They are a waste of time IMO.  :doh:
 
Along with the relicd guitar they should also fabricate the phony history to go with it. That is something I could actually enjoy doing. The enlosed documentation would go something like this:

"The dent in the back of the headstock is from when his wife bumped into the instrument while vacuum cleaning, two weeks after Johnny Doe bought it from a pawn shop back in 1978. He was divorced three weeks later. The rust on the bridge and the tuners is due to the instrument being stored in a moist basement for six years following Jimmy's death from an overdose in June 1983. At the end of a fierce inheritance feud, a judge ruled that the guitar, along with several other items, was to be the legal property of Johnny's son from his first mariage, Jimmy Doe. As an icon of the Undergound Electric Punk movement, Jimmy immediately embraced the instrument, taking it with him on his ill-fated 1995 world tour. The teeth marks are from a Great White that attacked Jimmy as he clung to the instrument after his yacht was overturned by a freak cyclone. The burn mark on the headstock is a complete mystery because neither Johnny nor Jimmy is known to ever have smoked, but it appears mandatory on relic guitars."
 
Purely a subjective call (Capt. Obvious, here) - whatever trips one's trigger. Me? If there's any wear on my instruments......it's mine  :laughing7:
 
Pretty funny byte frenzy...My guitars were all new and unmarked when I bought them and all 3 of them got pretty beaten up while gigging. I've had drunk guys pick up my guitars during breaks and try to play, break strings, spill beer all over them and drop them on the floor.  But they never got so worn down that the paint was worn thru to the wood like SRV's #1 Strat.  You'd have to play for like 14 hrs a day for like 15 years straight to achieve that. To spend extra money on an instrument so that it "looks" well used seems like a wast of money to me.  But, then again, I don't have money to throw away.  For the price of 1 relic you could probably build 2 Warmoths and have some change left over....
 
Fish said:
But they never got so worn down that the paint was worn thru to the wood like SRV's #1 Strat.  You'd have to play for like 14 hrs a day for like 15 years straight to achieve that.
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I'll argue with that.. My bandmatefriend guy Kevin has one that is like 2 years old and uhh.....

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ByteFrenzy said:
Along with the relicd guitar they should also fabricate the phony history to go with it. That is something I could actually enjoy doing. The enlosed documentation would go something like this:

"The dent in the back of the headstock is from when his wife bumped into the instrument while vacuum cleaning, two weeks after Johnny Doe bought it from a pawn shop back in 1978. He was divorced three weeks later. The rust on the bridge and the tuners is due to the instrument being stored in a moist basement for six years following Jimmy's death from an overdose in June 1983. At the end of a fierce inheritance feud, a judge ruled that the guitar, along with several other items, was to be the legal property of Johnny's son from his first mariage, Jimmy Doe. As an icon of the Undergound Electric Punk movement, Jimmy immediately embraced the instrument, taking it with him on his ill-fated 1995 world tour. The teeth marks are from a Great White that attacked Jimmy as he clung to the instrument after his yacht was overturned by a freak cyclone. The burn mark on the headstock is a complete mystery because neither Johnny nor Jimmy is known to ever have smoked, but it appears mandatory on relic guitars."
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:toothy12:

I like my stuff new.  I do my best to keep it that way, but if it gets a ding in it here and there, so be it.
 
ByteFrenzy said:
Along with the relicd guitar they should also fabricate the phony history to go with it. That is something I could actually enjoy doing. The enlosed documentation would go something like this:

"The dent in the back of the headstock is from when his wife bumped into the instrument while vacuum cleaning, two weeks after Johnny Doe bought it from a pawn shop back in 1978. He was divorced three weeks later. The rust on the bridge and the tuners is due to the instrument being stored in a moist basement for six years following Jimmy's death from an overdose in June 1983. At the end of a fierce inheritance feud, a judge ruled that the guitar, along with several other items, was to be the legal property of Johnny's son from his first mariage, Jimmy Doe. As an icon of the Undergound Electric Punk movement, Jimmy immediately embraced the instrument, taking it with him on his ill-fated 1995 world tour. The teeth marks are from a Great White that attacked Jimmy as he clung to the instrument after his yacht was overturned by a freak cyclone. The burn mark on the headstock is a complete mystery because neither Johnny nor Jimmy is known to ever have smoked, but it appears mandatory on relic guitars."
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That's freeeeeeakin' hilarious.....I love it.....Rene... :icon_thumright:
 
He must wear some pretty hefty belt buckles, chains and the like to get that much wear in only a few years....That's some pretty ctazy wear and tear...
 
jackthehack said:
Stoopid! I would hope not. If you want a relic, buy a real one...

http://cgi.ebay.com/1958-Fender-Stratocaster-nice-original-guitar-w-case_W0QQitemZ290246316490QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item290246316490&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318
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Amen to that, Brother.
 
Gigging every night, man , more power to you....I'd love to be able to go out on the road a tour around for a while...
But back to the topic at hand....Wear and tear on a guitar is like a badge of honor that you acquire while payin' your dues...It's not somethin that you can purchase...I dunno, just seems like a waste of money to me....
 
I read the other day the relic finish was inspired by Keith Richards.  He was having some Custom Shop Teles made.  When he saw them, he wasn't happy because they looked too new.
 
Then probably you should not get a relic'd guitar unless, like Keith, you look pretty relic'd yourself...
 
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