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I'm the kind of guy who likes new guitars to look new. One of the rules of guitar playing is guitars get beat up, if you play them that is. So, I can do my own relic-ing. What do you think?

When I buy something, I want it to look new!!! I think the whole relic deal is kind of cheap. A guitar should get reliced by years of playing it. Its cool at that point.

Give me a few months, and I'll make any new guitar will look like a relic anyway, why should I pay someone else to do it?

I can't believe people buy guitars that are already beat up. It's like those f*cking jeans that have pre-torn knees and fading.


Originally Posted by JB_From_HellI can't believe people buy guitars that are already beat up. It's like those f*cking jeans that have pre-torn knees and fading.

don't you know holes and tears add to the price?

if you pay me $500 I'll beat up your guitar and return it to you looking absolutely fu*ked up.

I think the whole faded and relicing thing is for guitarists who don't really play guitar all that much or aren't that good. I think naturally reliced guitars like SRV's are cool as hell. But paying a premium to have one look old but still be new and playable is retarded. I mean you could buy a new guitar for less money and beat the crap out of it yourself if you wanted that.

I don't mind the quot;fadedquot; thing, if you're referring to the Gibson faded series. To me, those don't have the air of stupidity that Fender's relic'd guitars do. They're not beat up; they just have a slightly less sharp sort of finish to them. Perfectly acceptable, especially considering that that series tends to be a bit less expensive than most of Gibson's others.

I think that it works for certain guitars, and doesn't for others. For example, Butnut's relic'ed tele looks badass! But a relic'ed LP just looks yuck to me.

Faded is just silly...

I think it's dishonest, just like making an new house look like an old house.

In my line of work I get to deal with a lot of people who want their new house to look like a 18th century colonial.

If it's new, it should look new.

I'm also in the quot;I don't get itquot; crowd, but I stop short of saying its dumb, or silly, because I know there's quite a few folks in this forum who enjoy it, and are far better guitar pickers and builders than I.

But, I do like my scratches to have a story . . . above and beyond - quot;The relic machine did it.quot;

My guitars tend to get naturally relic'd as time goes by, and the dings and scratches are part of what makes them mine and defines my relationship with them.

I have no problem buying a used guitar with some normal wear and tear, but I don't think I could bring myself to deliberately beat up a guitar.

I certainly wouldn't pay extra for one someone else had beaten up.

Guitars are tools, if they get beat up, that's fine. I'm not going to let someone else do it though. That ruins the fun of it! I think the Gibson faded series is cheesey as hell. They should just make them with a flat finish if they want one that is less expensive. The quot;fadingquot; they do looks cheap and ugly to me.

I think it is great that Fender and other companies took unusable bodies and bolted them to guitars and charged 4x as much. *and people buy them!!*

amazing what people will fall for to look like they actually put in the time with their instrument to make it look that way to their friends.

I like mine to look new also. It's enevitable that it's gonna get some scraches and dings, but even those I hate. I haven't own a guitar long enough yet to relic it through playing. If I ever played one long enough for it to look like Stevie's, I would hate the look, but it would be cool because that's my years of devotion, sweet, and tears that caused it to look that way.

What's actually the most funny. Is that people might own a CS Relic Strat and a PRS ... they'll take pride in their Relic Strat ... and yet they might get upset when they drop and dent the PRS. Different Strokes for different guitars maybe.

I can understand wanting a Strat or Tele to look played ... but that's where playing comes in.

Whatever floats the boat

I enjoy lookin' at a nice beatup gtr. amp; I don't give a rats ass how it got that way.

As long as the guitar has mojo, I don't care what it looks like.

I think there's a certain segment of the guitar buying public that wishes they could get a real 56 Strat or a real 59 Les Paul. They want that look, it just rocks their world.

There are companies out there, besides your standard Fender or Gibson guys, that will give that authentic aged look and they're damn good at it. Finish checking on a laquer finish is not easy to simulate. It really does take a certain amount of skill. Aging the metal parts is easy. You just get a beaker of acid and suspend your metal parts over the top of the beaker and let the fumes work over the metal.

Knowing where to nick the finish requires looking at a lot of old guitars, LOTS of them.

I'd rather pass on a properly aged gutiar to my kid or grandkids when I eventually die. If I had a Murphy-aged Historic Les Paul., by the time it got handed down, it'd be a piece of crap, right?

I bought that 98 model LP Goldtop last week. It had a couple of nicks ont he back, but nothing to worry about. It didn't bother me in the slightest. Mabye that's why I haven't bonded with the PRS the way I have with the Les Pauls. No dings in teh PRS! haha! That finish looks indestructable man.

I wld never pay for a brand new RELIC guitar. I wld prefer my guuitar getting relicked on its own( mine has). If u want a relic i suggest let it get relicked on its own, it looks better than a BRAND NEW RELIC GIUTAR.Honestly a NEW GUITAR SHLD LOOK NEW AND NOT BEAT UP

since i like new guitars and have them aged by myself(it comes with time but all black finishes tend to not age very much) i don't really like faded looks.

Well I certainly wouldn't want every guitar relic'd but it isn't too bad. I am thinking of doing my LPS to either look like Pearly or PG's, my 2 fav LP's I would say. I've played a few relics that were just dead-on hot and a few that seemed very forced, I guess it all still really comes down to the guitar.