Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

[Koreth]

Saw this thread over at the Boogie board. Not quite the conventional method of relicing a guitar, but I can't argue with the results.

 

[Bass_Medic_05]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

No doubt, that a sweet tele, thx for sharing.....

 

[FuseG4]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

Huh I think fender's roadworn jobs are a lil more believable than the "the body of my guitar got caught in a fire but the neck and electronics are all fine somehow" relic job

 

[sosomething]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

+1

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

Artificially relic'd guitars are ghey.

 

[Koreth]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

Huh I think fender's roadworn jobs are a lil more believable than the "the body of my guitar got caught in a fire but the neck and electronics are all fine somehow" relic job

The point is that the burnt look is *cool*. To hell with whether or not the relic job looks correct or genuine or not.

 

[FuseG4]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

The point is that the burnt look is *cool*. To hell with whether or not the relic job looks correct or genuine or not.

i know I wasn't particularly being serious...

 

[FuseG4]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

Artificially relic'd guitars are ghey.

if you do it for looks it's indeed ghey.

If you want the feel of a broken-in guitar that's much less ghey, but still a lil weird. To each his or her own I guess.

 

[krankguitarist]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

Seems to me this isn't so much like a conventional relic job, but more like a DIY re-finish job.

Came out nice, if ya ask me.

 

[Got_tone?]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

Artificially relic'd guitars are ghey.

+1 I still have to admit that some of their custom shop/masterbuilt relics are awesome.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

if you do it for looks it's indeed ghey.

If you want the feel of a broken-in guitar that's much less ghey, but still a lil weird. To each his or her own I guess.

If you want the feel of a broken in guitar, you have 3, non-ghey options. Buy a used/old guitar, buy a new guitar and play the ever living crap out of it, or just roll the edges of the fingerboard and keep the rest of the guitar looking the way it should.

Burning/gougin your guitar won't make it feel any better.


And it's still ghey.

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

Pretty understandable to burn his cheap tele. After all, he found it on a pile of firewood! LOL

 

[John_L]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

If you want the feel of a broken in guitar, you have 3, non-ghey options. Buy a used/old guitar, buy a new guitar and play the ever living crap out of it, or just roll the edges of the fingerboard and keep the rest of the guitar looking the way it should.

Burning/gougin your guitar won't make it feel any better.


And it's still ghey.

+1 as for Road Worn that is like cheap tranny ghey

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

Wow, the pics are not what I was expecting at all. It looks more like it was stripped and stained than burned. Actually came out looking half decent:


Before

After

 

[jake_xms3_punk]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

ye when i seen it on fire i was thinkin to myself WTF is he doing? then i seen the finished guitar and it doesn't look too bad at all

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

yeah this is not a relic.

it's the world's laziest finish removal followed by.......................no finish. or something.

i'm really turned off by this whole "ugly is cool" trend with guitars...i have several pre-owned guitars that have been played to the point of wearing out and there isn't a relic or a reissue alive that can cop that mojo...as far as i'm concerned, the only way an instrument gains real mojo is if it's been used to make music.

 

[marvar]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

I'm with Empty Pockets on this one-
IMO the whole 'relic' thing is BS! What is the point?
take a perfectly good new guitar, and make it look like it's old, and then charge extra for it!
do folks really think mojo is created that way? Are they trying to buy mojo? wtf!

 

[JohnnyGuitar]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

Relics are kind like trying to fake your battle scars...

"I got this scar at 'Nam, winter of 1968... oops, I meant to say winter NAMM 2008... yeah, slipped while I was trying to get a better picture of the Dean girls..."

 

[John_L]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

Relics are just the herd trying to be cool to cover for lack of ability.

 

[Nightburst]

Re: Why doesn't Fender use this method to relic their guitars?

I like the burn't finish but I can't understand why he had to make that damaged spot above the neck pickup?

The burning looks like a great alternative for sanding!