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AFAIK the jury is out on that for solid-body guitars
What I do agree is that, over 30 years, a pro-quality instrument will often have had all its defects fixed by decent repairmen over time, and thus be more playable than a brand-new one out of the box that has not had a pro set up
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I knew a lot of people growing up who hated brand spanking new trainers because they looked “too new”.
The worn in but not disheveled look was definitely much preferred.
Converse(ly) (see what I did there?) I try to keep my car looking as good and as mint as possible. It’s 15 years old now so it’s a challenge but I can’t imagine anyone desiring deliberate stone chips, bumper scuffs and car park dents to give it an aged look.
Like I said before, if done well and not overdone the relic guitar thing looks ok to me. I’ve never bought one but I can see the appeal. I also think sparkly brand new guitars look great too - I’ve bought a few of those
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Bit of trading feedback here.
I'm still like this with trainers - I hate the look of new trainers just purchased for the summer holiday - My trainers for 5 a side are close to wrecked, but feel like carpet slippers
If you take a new-condition vintage reissue, use it for a few years so it has natural playing wear, then try to sell it, it will be worth less than the same guitar in unused condition. But if it's a 'relic', it will cost more, both new and used. The concept of the fake being worth more than the genuine is so counterintuitive I find it one of those things I just can't quite get my head around... saying BUT IT IS just doesn't quite make sense, like one of those baffling optical illusions that you just can't make sense of, or trying to understand quantum mechanics.
Surely if wear is desirable, then the genuinely worn guitar should be worth at least as much as the faked one?
Particularly when you do consider how fake most relics do look, when you're familiar with genuine old guitars. Or is it because people are now so used to the fakes, that the real ones no longer look 'right' to them? In which case we truly aren't in Kansas any more...
I'll be honest and say that most of the good relics I've played have been really nice guitars - more so the 'light' ones than the 'heavy' ones - and I would consider owning one if I came across one I really wanted... but I would never buy a new one.
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Likewise, when people selling gear describe the item as “never gigged” so as to make it more desirable and maybe realise a better price....... if the relic thing is genuinely desired then well gigged instruments should be equally as desirable and valuable.
I guess thats the same same thing as what you just said though in a roundabout way.
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The neck on this thing feels amazing and as people have stated before, like it has been played for years. It's still here a couple of years later. Still got to admit that the ageing doesn't make me go woohoo, but when I'm playing it I don't need to look at it.
My ten year old 52ri Tele has started to age a little with the finish wearing through where my arm sits and the neck getting slicker. Hopefully after another decade of gigs (or sooner), the neck will feel like the roadworn.
That makes me no more a poser than the dentist driving his new shiny Mercedes with a PRS in the boot
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Each to their own, I say. If you want a relic guitar/bass then go for it. If you don't, errm, don't. To my mind, they only become a bad thing if people try passing them off as actually the real genuine article rather than just looking like one.
The only relics I actively pooh-pooh are poorly executed ones -- you know, when it's obvious that all it's had is 5 minutes with a belt sander and a few deliberate fag burns.
I'd love a YOB candy-apple red Fender Jazz, but I don't have the c.£10,000 I'd need for a decent '65. I would quite happily have a light-relic reproduction of one though.
I'm not some sort of drug-taking alcoholic git.
I'm just a git.
So, you want those who like them to appease you? Would you like some milk and cookies too? Slippers and a newspaper?
Deary me my friend, if you don’t like aged things... don’t bother with them.
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Like this, you mean? Rat rods are cool AF.
I'm not some sort of drug-taking alcoholic git.
I'm just a git.