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A heavy right hand playing the strings in an SRV style "figure of 8" kind of strum attack would put wear there.
Philip Sayce's Strat has a big bare patch above the scratchplate exactly like that. Seeing him live he does flail around quite violently with his right hand.
Been refinished now tho’
The implication being that SRV, Rory Gallagher, KWS, Philip Sayce, Walter Trout etc are all phonies?
Or do they just have bad aim?
With SRV, having watched him play, you could believe it could just be flesh doing it. Not many have hammered a guitar like him.
The reason that the relic's show wear above the pick guard/scratchplate is...
They were all played upside down... by Jimi Hendrix, long thought dead but secretly working in the Fender Custom Shop.
how many note have they missed and for how long?
or am I being crazy?
We're getting away from poopot's thesis though.
If you play hard/with abandon your pick, thumb whatever will hit that area.
If you play live moving around not looking where your strumming you’ll hit that area.
If you’ve got thick poly finish it might create some swirls - if it’s a thin nitro finish it will show more wear - playing it everyday add in sweat etc and that’s where you get the significant wear. I’m sure once it starts to go some people will pick at it as well.
If you sit at home playing pentatonic exercises and play several different guitars and stare at the fretboard and pick precisely you probably never see that wear.
You seem to be finding it hard to accept that old nitro comes off if knocked with a plectrum. If you look at good quality images of old brittle nitro you can see on a lot of guitars there’s not a lot holding the paint on. If you want to see a good example of an early burst strat that has come under fire from a sweaty forearm encased in a suit jacket look at Keith Scott’s main guitar.
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If we are still talking Fender Stratocasters here, then they would have a Fullerplast filler/undercoat?
So, this would not behave/wear in the same way as a nitrocellulose top coat, if one was ever present?
Also Fender introduced polyurethane finishes (often shortened to “urethane”) on its instruments in the late 1960s, so would these finishes 'chip' or shed in the same way as nitrocellulose and where does the characteristic wear come from?