who the hell in their right mind would buy this thing

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311splawndude said:
Unless you are making a replica of Mick Marr's guitar that looks almost identical to Mick Marr's guitar who I think we can safely say did not relic his guitar to get internet cred

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replica's of other peoples naturally beat up guitars i understand even less than a regular relic to be honest, like i understand playing a sig or same model as someone inspirational but a relic'd copy is just a little too fanboi for me.
 
Huge irony in the heavy relic probably makes it more expensive.
 
Nash doesn’t BUILD anything...he’s always assembled guitars from different parts sources and stamps his name on them, but to the best of my knowledge he’s not milling bodies or necks, installing frets or whatever.

I had a local relic genius spray a guitar for me that I wanted clean, not reliced. It was the most fucked up piece Of shit paint job ever, he couldn’t do a clean perfect paint job to save his life. I ended up rattle canning it. Clown.
 
Jokes on you the relic haters; I bring my MJT Strat to gigs and whenever I play my extended solo in “Mustang Sally” it brings the house down to the fucking floor. EVERY chick in the bar comes up to me after and says “Oh my god, you must be a road warrior, look at that Strat! You can see the years of hard work and love you put into it, I can hear the passion by looking at it! And the notes that come out of it! You make it sing! Right around the 38 minute mark in your Mustang Sally solo I slid off the barstool for the 5th time because there was so much passion in your playing and it just oozed off your old Strat like the passion was ripping the finish off itself!”

And that’s how I end up taking home the hottest 56 year old chicks with most of their teeth in South Florida.
 
RevDrucifer said:
Jokes on you the relic haters; I bring my MJT Strat to gigs and whenever I play my extended solo in “Mustang Sally” it brings the house down to the fucking floor. EVERY chick in the bar comes up to me after and says “Oh my god, you must be a road warrior, look at that Strat! You can see the years of hard work and love you put into it, I can hear the passion by looking at it! And the notes that come out of it! You make it sing! Right around the 38 minute mark in your Mustang Sally solo I slid off the barstool for the 5th time because there was so much passion in your playing and it just oozed off your old Strat like the passion was ripping the finish off itself!”

And that’s how I end up taking home the hottest 56 year old chicks with most of their teeth in South Florida.
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there was a phrase going around TGP for a bit back when it was fun to be there. A member went on some tirade about how bar bands must play everything note for note. No improvising allowed because that's how you get the girls. Another member came up with a theoretical batch of groupies in the front row called "note for note hotties" or "N4NH" for short that soaked their panties every time someone nailed a solo
 
RevDrucifer said:
Jokes on you the relic haters; I bring my MJT Strat to gigs and whenever I play my extended solo in “Mustang Sally” it brings the house down to the fucking floor. EVERY chick in the bar comes up to me after and says “Oh my god, you must be a road warrior, look at that Strat! You can see the years of hard work and love you put into it, I can hear the passion by looking at it! And the notes that come out of it! You make it sing! Right around the 38 minute mark in your Mustang Sally solo I slid off the barstool for the 5th time because there was so much passion in your playing and it just oozed off your old Strat like the passion was ripping the finish off itself!”

And that’s how I end up taking home the hottest 56 year old chicks with most of their teeth in South Florida.
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you da man
 
Something just looks wayyy off about that relic work. You can absolutely tell someone took a new guitar and attempted to age it. Looks very bad IMO. I am no longer against the relic'd look like I was in my younger days but this right here is not OK!
 
to the OP, that is some crazy SH*T, but there's someone out there who will... or folks wouldn't keeping "making" stuff like that....
that is horrendous looking though...
 
To be fair, the finish on my buddy's '61 sunburst strat looks equally as shitty. At least his was from decades of actual abuse. The one thing I can't stand about relic'd guitars is all those wear marks on maple fret boards.
 
midnightlaundry said:
Retarded.. It's like bypass all the playing and touring to just buy a beat POS. Instant Guitar God.. LOL
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No more retarded than owning tens of thousands of dollars worth of guitars and amps when you only play with yourself and never leave the basement. Not saying that is you but this thread is awfully judgey—most things that make us guitar geeks happy make no sense to non guitar players.
 
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I don't know if this is true but when I read it I busted out laughing because I could picture it .

Eddie was never terribly concerned with the aesthetics of his guitars beyond his trademark stripes. Wear and tear was a good thing. As beautiful as his EBMM sigs were, he just used and abused them. Michael Anthony even recounted once that Ed was frustrated that Mike had a bass that looked too beautiful - figured wood, nice finish, no wear. So he grabbed it from Mike and made gouges in the front of it with a screwdriver. Mike was pissed, but the damage was done.

Back in the day, this is something that made EVH who he was. It was an awkward learning curve, but he never really adhered to conventional... anything, if he could help it.
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To me relic guitars are just another finish option. If someone wants to pay for that what does it matter.

Does everyone have to have a brand spankin' new looking guitar? Great you gig out regularly and your guitar comes by it naturally, yep I have quite a few of those. My Les Paul Standard is beat to hell, the mahogany is showing on multiple places on the back, wallet chains and belts do wonders for destroying a finish. My LP Custom is aged as well from my sweat, same with one of my PRS Tremontis where I was roasted alive from the lighting rigs. All from years of abuse from me playing live. On the other hand I also have a Chubtone that I wanted reliced because my live playing days are over and it's damn beautiful. I wanted something that reminded me of my shred guitars from the 80's and it looks fantastic.

As I said I don't get the beef, if it make someone pick up the guitar and play or if it just puts a smile on your face looking at it, isn't that the point of all this?
 
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RevDrucifer said:
Jokes on you the relic haters; I bring my MJT Strat to gigs and whenever I play my extended solo in “Mustang Sally” it brings the house down to the fucking floor. EVERY chick in the bar comes up to me after and says “Oh my god, you must be a road warrior, look at that Strat! You can see the years of hard work and love you put into it, I can hear the passion by looking at it! And the notes that come out of it! You make it sing! Right around the 38 minute mark in your Mustang Sally solo I slid off the barstool for the 5th time because there was so much passion in your playing and it just oozed off your old Strat like the passion was ripping the finish off itself!”

And that’s how I end up taking home the hottest 56 year old chicks with most of their teeth in South Florida.
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There’s always a serious uptick in STD’s at the assisted living when an ex-cover band specialist can no longer feed himself at home.
 
ccn said:
I don't know if this is true but when I read it I busted out laughing because I could picture it .
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Probably is. I spent 10 years playing in a band, we gigged 1 to 2 nights per week local, and on the road. Aesthetics was not even a consideration, it just needed to sound good, and not be cutting out while trying to play.

If we needed to drive a screw through something, or tape it up, this is what would be on our gear.
 
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