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Yes. No. Maybe. Checking is pretty random and won't always look the same - that said Gibson's often check with the long straightish lines like on the LP above. Fenders often check with a more mosaic type effect - not really like the green tele above - that's an MJT finish and it seesm to have crazed with both lines and random spiders web type lines.But freezing is emulating what causes guitars to craze over in the real world - rapid temperature changes, perhaps more extremely than is likely to happen in real life.
Some will tell you one method is better than the other. they all work in different ways so don't write any off.
I use a combination of techniques a the moment. Gibsons tend to start with a knife and finish with a freeze spray. Fenders start with the freezer session followed up with the freeze spray if needed. I am more willing to accept random patterns on Fender than Gibson style.
This is a before and after of a recent one
Worth noting that the undesirable checking on the left was done purely with freeze techniques. Given the size of the checking I would assume it was put in the freezer a few times rather than done with freeze spray as that gives much finer levels of randomness... I assume something about the gold layer was different, as the clear has checked with no relation to the wood underneath.
The finished article on the right and below was resprayed with Nitro. checked with a scalpel and a little more detail added with an upside down air duster.
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