Just played a road worn strat! LMAO!

[TattooedCarrot]

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LMAO!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! LOL!!!!!

Man, that was a funny trip to the music store. I get there, and see the roadworn strat. It looked like someone took a Highway one (same mate look to the finish), then used a belt sander on the forearm rest, and some sport on the back, then rubbed it a few times with fine sandpaper. You could even see what looked like a burn mark from the sander on the forearm ''wear''. Then, it looks like they hit it with a screwdriver a few times. The bridge looked like it has been ''sprinkled'' with rust powder. And the pickguard looked like it had been rubbed on a few spots with brown shoe polish, then scratched with fine sandpaper. The neck didn't feel worn in, it just felt like it had been violated by a kid trying to make his guitar look old.

It was ridiculous.

I seriously, honestly, truly believe that anybody on this forum, given a highway 1 strat, could do a more convincing job. It was so horrible, that I started laughing with one of my friends, and some other people came to see what was funny, and started laughing also.

Fender, your roadworn guitars are a joke. If anyone wants a strat, take that kind of money and look at the G&L imports please, or just hit a highway 1.

Rant over.

And here we are a year later and they are a total success; Fender sells them by the ass-load.

 

[phil_104]

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And here we are a year later and they are a total success; Fender sells them by the ass-load.

True. I've played a few though, and I still don't get it. I think what it has proven, is that I, along with a few others, had underestimated the demand for relics.

 

[Lucid_Lunatic]

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The few I have played have all been different. Some looked good, some looked pretty sh!tty. The best looking one they had at GC played the worst, go figure. The reliced neck felt like they had reliced it with the stone drum sander from a Dremel tool, it was absolutely horrible. A couple of the cheesier looking ones played like butter........

 

[Gearjoneser]

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Last time I picked one up, I had a little daydream.

I imagined a Mexican worker beating up the guitar, knowing that his paycheck barely covers his 6 kids bean dinner, while knowing that a spoiled rich American kid would be paying the price of a used car his family desperately needed for a guitar he was hitting with a screwdriver! :chairfall

 

[Lucid_Lunatic]

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Last time I picked one up, I had a little daydream.

I imagined a Mexican worker beating up the guitar, knowing that his paycheck barely covers his 6 kids bean dinner, while knowing that a spoiled rich American kid would be paying the price of a used car his family desperately needed for a guitar he was hitting with a screwdriver! :chairfall

pretty much sums it up.

 

[BloodRose]

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:haha:

It's like paying the cook to spit in your own lunch I guess.

LOL!

I was thinking it would be akin to paying extra for a hooker to get sloppy seconds... NO way!

 

[B2D]

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Did anyone else see the "Psychology of Tone" article in Premier Guitar lately? Interesting read... including this bit:

These beat up guitars tell stories, so when we see the relic’d look it triggers the mind to question how that happened and the mind begins to fantasize. When we pay for a relic’d guitar, we’re paying for a fantasy … unless you’re psychotic, you don’t actually believe that you’ve been on numerous tours with this brand new guitar, but you are now able to imagine that.

Here's a link to the whole article: http://www.premierguitar.com/magazine/Issue/2010/Feb/The_Psychology_of_Tone.aspx?Page=1

 

[steppe]

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LMAO!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! LOL!!!!!

Man, that was a funny trip to the music store. I get there, and see the roadworn strat. It looked like someone took a Highway one (same mate look to the finish), then used a belt sander on the forearm rest, and some sport on the back, then rubbed it a few times with fine sandpaper. You could even see what looked like a burn mark from the sander on the forearm ''wear''. Then, it looks like they hit it with a screwdriver a few times. The bridge looked like it has been ''sprinkled'' with rust powder. And the pickguard looked like it had been rubbed on a few spots with brown shoe polish, then scratched with fine sandpaper. The neck didn't feel worn in, it just felt like it had been violated by a kid trying to make his guitar look old.

It was ridiculous.

I seriously, honestly, truly believe that anybody on this forum, given a highway 1 strat, could do a more convincing job. It was so horrible, that I started laughing with one of my friends, and some other people came to see what was funny, and started laughing also.

Fender, your roadworn guitars are a joke. If anyone wants a strat, take that kind of money and look at the G&L imports please, or just hit a highway 1.

Rant over.

Hey man, I did play one and loved it a lot.. BUT would you really say that a highway one is the same guitar, as I'de probably get one of those if it sounds the same and save some money... what would you say is the newest strat that is the same... which one did they use I wonder before they relicking...

thanks

steve

 

[steppe]

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Forget the relic work on them...I played a few recently (4 guitars in total) and was really impressed with the guitars as a whole...

I played only one, but it sounded and played better than all the American ones they had in the shop... still trying to figure out why

 

[FretFire]

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[ImmortalSix]

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I support resurrecting threads - then we have good threads instead of lots of threads.

 

[JeffB]

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My first year RW Tele is a killer guitar.

I back to backed A RW 60s strat to a 59 slab board relic a couple years back while away on my honeymoon, and the RW looked more authentic, AND was was a better piece of wood. I will never say that is always true, and the relicing on the RWs has since become pretty amateur, but there seems to be a high percentage of good sounding guitars in the RW series...thin nitro+thick neck > shiny poly finish + girly neck.

 

[scottosan]

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the pre-worn guitars new from factory concept is just idiotic, put simply, and this "Road Worn" strat is no exception. These are, IMO, just blues lawyer instrument. No one that has ever done their homework before hand and is a working musician would buy these in their right mind.
It's a blatant money grab,I mean, how do you justify massively bumping up the price of a guitar that's been intentionally damaged? You may as well go to a scratch and ding sale at a guitar store and actually get a DISCOUNT for the damage and actually get a guitar that might be within the realm of good value for money.

You want a worn guitar? Buy a guitar and PLAY IT and play it for hours each day like a passionate guitarist does. That's how my guitars become worn and I didn't have to pay extra for the worn mojo.

The reality is that if only working musicians were the customer bases, there would be no market for gear. Most true musicians have no money and would be homeless if they had no girlfriends. I think the roadworn are no worst than most guitars that retail for <$800 using cheap parts and labor and thick poly paint. I hate most guitars from Guitar center. I am truley against mass produced guitars that are made by people who dont care about music. It is a further reality thay most people play guitar that are made by people that aren't even musicians.

 

[The Dali]

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I whole-heartedly agree with the idea of getting a highway one and just playing it.

 

[MisterE]

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I like zombie threads, specially if it is about guitars that breathe due to their thin skins. Yes, zombie threads, zombie guitars, zombies playing guitars. This is the year of the zombie.

 

[scottosan]

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I like zombie threads, specially if it is about guitars that breathe due to their thin skins. Yes, zombie threads, zombie guitars, zombies playing guitars. This is the year of the zombie.

Or zombies shopping at GC because they sell a bolted on pile of poo with and "F" or "G" logo.

 

[steppe]

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i played a roadworn recently. while i wasnt overly impressed with the relic work...it played better than half the MIA strats in the store, maybe i just got one of those lucky MIMs.

I got the same impression, it was the best sounding one there, including the USA made ones... hmm.. now I found a video with a classic vibe 60s strat that sound similar... must check out the vibe 60s before spending an extra 600 Euros..

 

[Left_Hand_Strat]

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to be honest, I don't wholly get this relic'ing stuff....

the only ones I have really liked were thesquier '51 that my dad did a good job on and the Vintage V100 Lemon Drop, which looks damn decent.

 

[Funkfingers]

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to be honest, I don't wholly get this relic'ing stuff.

Too many people listen with their eyes.

Demand for genuine vintage pieces vastly outstrips supply. (This is to say nothing about the market values!) Hence, a ready market exists for guitars that that have been doctored to resemble old ones but sell for a fraction of the price.

 

[TattooedCarrot]

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Relic finishes are nothing more than the current aesthetic fad. No different than the neon colors and animal pattern paint jobs of the 80's. No need to slam people who like them (hey bastids, I like them!! LOL).

Also, I find I play more because I leave them out of the cases and don't care if they get banged up so I end up with guitars laying around the house that I just grab and noodle impulsively.

I've owned a few Road Worns. I don't care for the vintage radius neck, but I do like the bodies and IMO the relicing is pretty damn good, especially on the Tele's. I've built two partsocasters using Road Worn bodies.