SHOW YOUR RELICS?

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LReese said:
I'ma going to slightly derail... Was holding these back since it was slightly off topic... Maybe it will get some gear prone posted....

Left is a 55 RI and right is a 50's RI in Closet Classic finish.

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Holy crap those are beautiful. You're a Lucky Man.

PC
 
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Lol...quite right. I am not, however, offended by relicing; it's just a trend I don't understand.

Like twerking.

Rodney Gene said:
LOL...we are a curious bunch, musicians that is. We find the most insignificant and trivial differences insolent.

As it were my brother, I myself will be posing with my Nash tomorrow for most of the day during a session, but may need to stop for an hour or so and use my PRS for a little modern blues cover tune at which point I will no longer be posing (I think that's the way it goes) but I will likely need to go back to posing while I finish the track tomorrow with the Nash. Hahaha.... But in all honesty that is really how far we take all this stuff.

BTW, I posed with the Nash for a 10 minute SD demo vid that will be released soon. You can ignore the playing and tone, that was just for show, but pay close attention to the way I did my hair. Its tight and looks good with the Nash!~ I didn't have any sunglasses but I plan to get those for next time...LOL!! :haha: :haha: Sorry...this has me rolling at my own dry humor. In truth: I really understand the intent of that statement and its all good. But in my experience if you have to use a guitar to define you and validate you, then this would apply to any guitar you own and buy and that juice would run out in seconds when you hit the stage or were asked to lay down a track.

On a related note, if all goes well this week I will be posing with my Gibson Historic 335 very soon. Maybe I am just not a serious enough musician for some people, but... as it happens to turn out, I have discovered that I really enjoy playing the guitars I really enjoy playing. I actually have more fun and advance my musical goals fastest playing the guitars that play great to me, sound great to me and look great to me.

The irony to me is this is a non-issue outside of the internet / hobbyist realm. It is a non-issue in any real-life, real-time job, on stage, in the studio or with any professional musician or gig I have worked with. All of the players I know really enjoy them as they are some of the best playing and sounding guitars available to buy today. I only have one (out of 9 guitars), but there are many that I find beautiful. As for it being an issue, in all my years as a musician it has never come up, ever. In the real face-to-face world nobody cares where it counts. They really, really don't care. In a professional gig situation you will never get 'more' or 'less' respect because of the condition of the guitar you play at any audition or any gig. You either bring the appropriate guitar and tone etc. for the gig or you don't. You can either play or you can't. You will never get the gig or lose the gig because your guitar is pre-worn or brand new, worn by you or someone-else, poly or nitro, American or Asian. To me the 'rich-guy' blues lawyer idea is internet dribble and a worn thin played out stereotype remark used in any situation where high-cost is a potential. I know a ton of real players, professional musicians, builders, techs etc who use high-end and relic instruments, but not a single 'rich guy' outside of the internet forums. It's silly stuff.

It is a bit unfortunate that a 'show me' thread is derailed so quickly by those who find the content offensive. Whatever you choose for yourself I hope you can enjoy yourself. Its a short life.



Me too. I was hoping to see some awesome guitars...LOL. Different dissapoint son (In my best Jerry Reed voice)! LOL!

Have a great week~

Cheers,

RG
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I agree. Have a few dings in my various guitars although yours are more serious. Still always wish I didn't have them and enjoy the look of a brand new guitar!
 
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Fuk that reminded me. My dick head father in law made me watch a status ****ing quo dvd with him once. I couldn't believe that the guitarist had worn through his black 3 ply pickguard. So much so that it was into the white.

Seriously that dvd was like a nightmare thats how bad it was. I still wonder to this day how you would even do that to a pickguard.

I think this was the guitar in question


The best relic i have seen to this day was a fender bass i was shown by a old work mate. He used it for 40 years or so as a session player. The thing had seen thousands of gigs. It was beaten to hell its white colour had turned into a yellow like smoke stain and It had been through two necks. Was a major workhorse.

He actually let me take it home with his Gallien-Krueger amp for a few weeks but i didn't really know how to play it all that well.
 
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I've literally just come home after collecting my Anderson from the guy who maintains Parfitt's Tele.
His name is Jeff Beer and he was telling me this aft that Parfitt wears away the bobbin on his bridge pickup, often exposing and breaking the windings.
I think it looks mangled in your pic.
Jeff keeps a replica pickup on hand so he can swap them out as often as needed, which he said was every month or so when its being played regularly !!!
How hard must this guy be hitting those strings. Lol
 
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Here's my new Warmoth ' relic '
Thin, lightly aged nitro finish.
Duncan Perpetual Burn and 2 x Lollar Blackface.
Fosillized mammoth ivory nut.
 
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kramersteen said:
Fuk that reminded me. My dick head father in law made me watch a status ****ing quo dvd with him once. I couldn't believe that the guitarist had worn through his black 3 ply pickguard. So much so that it was into the white.

Seriously that dvd was like a nightmare thats how bad it was. I still wonder to this day how you would even do that to a pickguard.

I think this was the guitar in question


The best relic i have seen to this day was a fender bass i was shown by a old work mate. He used it for 40 years or so as a session player. The thing had seen thousands of gigs. It was beaten to hell its white colour had turned into a yellow like smoke stain and It had been through two necks. Was a major workhorse.

He actually let me take it home with his Gallien-Krueger amp for a few weeks but i didn't really know how to play it all that well.
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Rick Parfitt's Tele's guard is not worn through. It's a white guard painted black, and the paint has worn off. You can see in that picture that none of the plastic is actually missing.
 
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Back in the day when Fender would paint over previously painted guitars.........25 years later when the guitar paint would fade/break would it really do so one layer at a time so that the underlying color would show? Tom Scholz removed all paint on his guitar because he believed/believes his mahogany les paul and maple laminate top sound better without a layer of finish.
 
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Diminished Triad said:
Back in the day when Fender would paint over previously painted guitars.........25 years later when the guitar paint would fade/break would it really do so one layer at a time so that the underlying color would show? Tom Scholz removed all paint on his guitar because he believed/believes his mahogany les paul and maple laminate top sound better without a layer of finish.
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Dont know how common it was but i remember seeing at the texas guitar show a 63 strat that fender had refinned from sunburst to fiesta red (which had faded to a shell pink color) and in some places it had checked and cracked exposing the underlying sunburst. Keep in mind those refins were done paint sticking on paint stuck on primer... maybe the paint they used sticks better to the primer than it does to the paint. Maybe they didnt rough up the old finish properly so the refin didnt stick as good. So if anything refins acting in that manner are definitely possible.
 
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ItsaBass said:
Rick Parfitt's Tele's guard is not worn through. It's a white guard painted black, and the paint has worn off. You can see in that picture that none of the plastic is actually missing.
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haha oh right. I still Don't like them.
 
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It's not really the point, but my take on them is that they have always been extremely derivative, without the slightest semblance of originality, and they've been unlistenably horrible since '74/'75. (I'm sure that DVD was ****ing godawful.) But before that, they have lots of stuff I dig...especially on Ma Kelly's and Spare Parts ('70 and '69, respectively). On the latter, they are copping the Bee-Gees (who at that point were very derivative themselves), and on the former, a mixture of Fleetwood Mac/British blues-rock, and Black Sabbath/early heavy metal.

This does bring up my favorite famous beat-up guitar, though:
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Edgecrusher said:
Dont know how common it was but i remember seeing at the texas guitar show a 63 strat that fender had refinned from sunburst to fiesta red (which had faded to a shell pink color) and in some places it had checked and cracked exposing the underlying sunburst. Keep in mind those refins were done paint sticking on paint stuck on primer... maybe the paint they used sticks better to the primer than it does to the paint. Maybe they didnt rough up the old finish properly so the refin didnt stick as good. So if anything refins acting in that manner are definitely possible.
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Common practice for Fender back in the day... That was look I was going for here.

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