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All that stuff i am finding it a little bit hard to believe. Logic will tell me memory muscles eventually kicks in and he would get better and better and miss less…not to mention I doubt a 60's Fender would be his first and only guitar either.
Also that bit on the very edge just by the pick guard, the angle of attack from the pick would have to be at least 90 degree perpendicular to the guitar, if it's anyway leaning away from the strings, it's not going to hit the very corner as you stroke down.
Plus if he were to really hitting it that hard, for that long, I would expect a little dent, or grove where the most comment strokes be in the wood over 50 years, not a completely smooth, even, flat surface across the entire area. That would suggest he hit every single mm across that surface at an even amount over 50 years.
So many things that I am having doubts with.
In a nutshell, it’s not a conspiracy against you. Nitro guitars are subject to wear and tear.
Get over it.
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Unless his picking pattern is over a 30cm wide area, spread evenly, and he missing his notes evenly across the entire area.
At minimum I would expect the middle part of the 30cm spread to have a slight groove due to the nature of where he hits the strings the most. may be over where the neck pick ups is.
What is more likely is some of the paint did wear off and one day he took off the pickguard and took a bit of sandpaper and thought 'I will just smooth this bit out where my wrist rests" instead of it being a bit bumpy.
That I would believe.
https://i.imgur.com/gYi2Uj6.png
You're now making up things to support why you don’t “believe” this which doesn’t interest me at all. You believe whatever suits your foil hat theory, I’m off to bed chap.
Good luck.
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https://i.imgur.com/6cFHO4D.png
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Do you see it?
Fake thing is fake.
The end.
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@Raymondlin it's not possible to know either way from a few pics. But I do think people are a bit quick to dismiss the idea-
SRVs and Rorys guitars were held up as examples but have no similar wear in that area, nothing like it.
Anyone seen KWS play? Not exactly wild abandon personified.
Doesn't use that guitar all that much, keeps swapping them in a show and didn't have that one when I saw him.
His other guitars don't have any such wear.
But - probably battered when he got it. Once paint starts to lift/wear away it's far easier for more of it to start lifting. The fresh wear could well be from that.
It's just not possible to decide either way.
There is some age related checking/flaking going on, which I think would come off with very little friction. A cuff or a sleeve of a shirt coming into contact with any frequency would probably remove it completely.
If the finish on a Fender of a similar age was similar to the finish on my lapsteel, I could definitely see some extreme relicing happening to it in a situation where it is frequently used/abused
Well yes, we're talking about that area above the plate no? Everything on that^^ looks pretty evenly worn, none of it fresher than anywhere else. The KWS looks very fresh in that one area. That's what I mean.
I don't give a rats whether the KWS one is all real wear or added to, or whether you're bored. I did say it's not poss to decide from pics whether that particular area is real wear, or isn't. That's all.