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lysander · January 2020

This came into my reverb feed.
Someone tell me it didn’t actually leave the Suhr factory like this ?
Has to be the ugliest and least realistic looking “relic” job I’ve ever seen

Suhr Classic T Antique Tobacco Burst Heavy Distressed
https://reverb.com/item/31054000-suhr-classic-t-antique-tobacco-burst-heavy-distressed?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=31054000

SlopeSoarer · January 2020

Bought from the factory second outlet.

danishbacon · January 2020

you're supposed to be 'heavily distressed' by it

Dan_Halen · January 2020

Pretty Suhr *cough* they don’t do that sort of relicing. Just the light stuff on the custom classics although happy to be proved wrong.

Looks like one of those LTD guitars or a Vintage.
Maybe they dropped it, fucked the finish and thought it could be hidden? Either way, looks a bit pants.

ICBM · January 2020

Looks like someone was deliberately taking the piss when asked to make a relic.

Suhr: "We don't do relics, they look shit."
Customer: "But I want a relic."
Suhr: (scratch scratch rub rub) "There you are."
Customer: "But it looks shit!"
Suhr: "Told you."

mikeyrob73 · January 2020

How much?

Kittyfrisk · January 2020

"This guitar cane with a great ‘heavy’ distress job from Suhr but barely been played."
Should read " This guitar has been caned with a shit distress job"

GoldenEraGuitars · January 2020

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

GoldenEraGuitars · January 2020

Check out this Fender CS (or Masterbuilt whatever) strat. Now they just need to burn the plastics as well to complete the look

https://i.imgur.com/kTalYjU.jpg

dindude · January 2020

Wouldn’t surprise if it was factory - I own a Suhr so happy to say they make great guitars, but they don’t do relics very well from what I’ve seen. Here’s there “finish over finish” series they recently did - looks like a white jacket being unzipped!

https://i.imgur.com/m92Dv5U.jpg

GoldenEraGuitars · January 2020

Their style seems to involve using thinner to rub the finish off. As you can see, it doesn’t yield very attractive results. The colour over burst one is a good example of why not to use it. I think their intention was just to remove the white from the burst. Instead, it has bled to the burst and removed it too.

handsomerik · January 2020

I don’t mean to be controversial but it seems Suhr are absolutely rubbish at relicing. When they did the colour over colour ones a couple of years back I couldn’t believe how shockingly abysmal they looked in person.

lysander · January 2020

dindude said:

Wouldn’t surprise if it was factory - I own a Suhr so happy to say they make great guitars, but they don’t do relics very well from what I’ve seen. Here’s there “finish over finish” series they recently did - looks like a white jacket being unzipped!

https://i.imgur.com/m92Dv5U.jpg

I totally take back my first post,
*this* is the worst relic I’ve seen

The whole thing is making me question their judgment as a whole honestly.

They should hire a few guys from fender CS and ask them to being their stencils with them.

sawyer · January 2020

Oh dear

very poor!

Sassafras · January 2020

A bit like having fake tits but one's much bigger and a different colour to the other.

lysander · January 2020

Sassafras said:

A bit like having fake tits but one's much bigger and a different colour to the other.

Yeah that was my first thought too

You did give me a good chuckle.

p90fool · January 2020

Tbh that shows a contempt for detail which would put me off trying ANY of their guitars.

spirit7 · January 2020

Let’s not overreact shall we? That’s a poor relic, no doubt, but Suhr makes a ridiculously high quality guitar.

prowla · January 2020

Suhrly not...

rossi · January 2020

why relic a guitar that didnt exist way back when .i can almost understand a strat ot tele geting the treatment but Suhr are a modern maker with little history of countless gigs ,ill treatment , and bashed around vans for decades ..just like groupies.

lysander · January 2020

For me an aged finish is purely a cosmetic and sensory thing that makes an instrument more like a nice piece of wood than a shiny lump of plastic coated something.
I would totally like a nice relic finish on a modern guitar, but they seemed to have completely missed the point here.

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