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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
None of them are even guitars.
This is now a classic car forum.
nitro
poly
Tbh, there are so many variables on older finishes that make it difficult to assume a cracked finish is “nitro”. I’ve just stripped a 63 strat that was craze checked to buggery... but it wasn’t nitro!
I do wonder when the myth that nitro allows dead wood to “breathe” will fade.
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Suppose I shouldn't be given the things people believe in the worlds of religion/alternative medicine/superstition etc. but it just seems weird that it's brought in to the guitar world. I wonder if it enters the world of any other instruments? I don't remember any of it from the keyboard world I was in for years before getting in to the guitar.
I reckon: red - polly
sunburst - nitro
blue - nitro
By the time you strap a pound of metal and plastic to the body I doubt whether the paint makes a difference.
I can imagine my thoughts would turn most guitarists stomachs
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I'm intrigued.
There's things I've had, there's things I wanna have"
Something
Something
Blue
Is that the point?
My Avri57 'relicd' the natural way.
I don't think anyone would confuse it for nitro lol
Nitro - not because it’s sunk into the grain (I’ve owned a couple that the poly finish has sunk into the grain, although not to that degree), but because the marks on the bottom edge look like they were caused by a reaction to a stand.
Poly - partly because it was selected to trick us, but mainly because the checking doesn’t quite look like what I’ve come to expect from nitro.
And yet we have almost equal guesses for all of them. A couple of people have got it right.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I've never paid much attention to it, I've picked up (mostly from here) that the poly is much sturdier and less likely to damage but if it does get a ding it comes off in an ugly chip whereas nitro is more susceptible to damage but when it is damaged, it looks that faded way like a relic guitar that some people like.
That pic of the yellow strat is far more extreme.
A company started selling black belts made deliberately out of weak material and weak in places so that it wore and frayed like that after only a short time.
To me, that is exactly the same as buying a fully painted guitar but deliberately wanting a type of paint used that wears quickly.