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the 'd is a bit old-skool Shakespearian:
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, naught could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
"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
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That is where I stand - use a nice thing finish then just abuse it.
That said, @axisus was the first person to show me a relic guitar I liked on the forum, and since I'm finding I like more, although they're usually the ones that look like they were recovered from the bottom of the ocean (prop guitars?).
Fender custom shop is daft though. It isn't really custom shop, so much as "relic style fender" - not cool. I want imaginative finishes, marble or cracked mirrors or different colours, or different hardware and pickup combinations, or neck shapes from the custom shop.
I do think the main USA line could be simplified greatly, and leave the mega options in necks, hardware and finishes to the custom shop, but it's almost reversed at the moment - the custom shop is mostly 'normal' spec, but relic, and there are a thousand different 'standard' type lines with different specs. After all, most of us just want a USA standard...
Yup. Needs to be nitro
I'll PM you.
X_X
We're members of the Fretboard home-made relic gang. Those who had the balls (or stupidity)
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Relic guitars look really cool if the relicing is done as a form of art, as a way to balance out the aesthetics. But then you have the Nash approach, which is to just beat the shit out of it—with a sledgehammer for those that want "heavy", and a chisel for those who want "light"—and charge an arm and a leg for a slapped together Telecaster anyone can make if they know how to set up a guitar.
Mojo is unquantifiable. Many modern relic guitars are quite definable. They're mediocre instruments made to look special. Some are phenomenal and done right, but most aren't. Fano make good shit. In general, I prefer an 'aged' finish, as in one that feels like it's not brand new but doesn't suffer from dodgy frets or scratchy wiring like most vintage guitars wood.