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Has anyone seen a relic which looks good in the flesh?? I think the Fender Custom Shop/Masterbuilt stuff looks fine but everything else is just overboard, in need of a paint job or really fake like the roadworn series (despite sounding lovely). I did use to think Nash's/Bravewood's were fantastically accurate till I owned one (again sounded lovely). Look at this dog's dinner:

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-axes-fiesta-red-heavy-relic-68-strat-nitro-/120751245623?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c1d55c937"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-axes-fie...=item1c1d55c937[/url]

Lot of homespun 'relic'ing' businesses on the rise now :)

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[quote name='Schnozzalee' post='1322283' date='Jul 31 2011, 05:11 PM']Has anyone seen a relic which looks good in the flesh?? I think the Fender Custom Shop/Masterbuilt stuff looks fine but everything else is just overboard, in need of a paint job or really fake like the roadworn series (despite sounding lovely). I did use to think Nash's/Bravewood's were fantastically accurate till I owned one (again sounded lovely). Look at this dog's dinner:

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-axes-fiesta-red-heavy-relic-68-strat-nitro-/120751245623?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c1d55c937"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-axes-fie...=item1c1d55c937[/url]

Lot of homespun 'relic'ing' businesses on the rise now :)[/quote]

I find it odd that people pay over the odds for something that looks like it's been left in a tumble dryer full of rocks for a week but will demand massive reductions for a tiny ding in an otherwise perfect paintjob.

Relicing is something I find utter madness. If you want a guitar that looks 40 years old, buy an unfashionable 40 year old model replace the pickups and you've got a guitar as good as this one at a fraction of the cost.

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I like my guitars to look like I have cared for them.

Not like I have thrown them around every hotel room on the tour.

I'm just not a relic fan (especially artifical).

It's funny how when you sell a bass or guitar, if it has a ding then folks try and knock you down.

That chap is charging loads for something that is not even a real Strat!

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Somebody on here hit the nail on the head when they were discussing another OTT relicing job similar to that monstrosity, when they said it looks like its been tied to the back of a transit van and bounced down the M1 for 100 miles!

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[quote name='Johnston' post='1322427' date='Jul 31 2011, 07:59 PM']Why is it listed as a *strat* and why no pictures of the front face of the headstock??[/quote]

There's one - and it does appear to say "Fender Stratocaster" on the head.

But, let's face it. No guitar is ever going to look like that, no matter how much you chuck it about. It looks ridiculously artificial.

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[quote name='Grandad Paul' post='1322593' date='Jul 31 2011, 10:38 PM']Please god, I cannot take anymore of this. Why would you do this, and even worse, [b]why would you buy it?[/b][/quote]

More importantly, why would you buy it for over £900!

Trouble is that some numpty WILL.

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[quote name='Grandad Paul' post='1322992' date='Aug 1 2011, 02:45 PM']Then they advertise it as for sale with a "Brand new tweed case". Is that really authentic then, or is that to show you what you could have got if you had a matching guitar. Unbelievable![/quote]

The case should also be given the relic treatment. :) :)

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I started gigging in the 60's playing guitar as part of a Seekers tribby group. We played with hundreds of other groups over many years and I have never, ever seen a guitar, bass or any other instrument in that state! I looked after my stuff because I couldn't afford to replace it if it got trashed.

There may be the one odd person that doesn't give a toss but even then......
I would not buy a relic instrument, I don't want to look as though I don't care. :)

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[quote name='paul_5' post='1323839' date='Aug 2 2011, 10:32 AM']But then it would be worthless...[/quote]

'Relic' => make it look well-used without affecting it's functionality. Relicing a guitar / bass doesn't render it unplayable, so relicing a case shouldn't make it unusable. :) :)

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There are some, good, genuinely authentic looking relic´s out there, although thre are far more bad úns, how about this one, without doubt the worst i´ve seen, some people have genuinly missed the point about what a relic look is supposed to replicate;

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Affinity-Standard-Strat-Neck-Worn-RELIC-/190561927794?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item2c5e604272"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Af...=item2c5e604272[/url]

:)

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[quote name='Johnston' post='1325631' date='Aug 3 2011, 01:32 PM']I suppose it could be natural if the owner was a plumber and was using the neck as a head shield when soldering pipes.[/quote]

It´s a fair point, well made, i take it back.

I´ll contact the seller, and advise him/her to list it under the correct heading, that being, ´used welding equpiment´and not, musical instruments. An honest error methinks.

:)

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[quote name='Johnston' post='1325631' date='Aug 3 2011, 01:32 PM']I suppose it could be natural if the owner was a plumber and was using the neck as a head shield when soldering pipes.[/quote]

Having looked again, the work he´s done to the back of the neck is inspired, if he´d continued with the whole neck, he could have passed it off as an exotic wood, the likes of which, Alembic would be proud!!

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[quote name='the hand of john curley' post='1325313' date='Aug 3 2011, 10:17 AM']ha ha ha !!!....ohhhh i must get my eyes tested again...for a moment i thought the add said £1300!!!!??? ...that'd just be crazy!!!!..... :) :)[/quote]

Good grief - he's added an extra £400 to the buy it now price!

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[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' post='1325603' date='Aug 3 2011, 01:06 PM']There are some, good, genuinely authentic looking relic´s out there, although thre are far more bad úns, how about this one, without doubt the worst i´ve seen, some people have genuinly missed the point about what a relic look is supposed to replicate;

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Affinity-Standard-Strat-Neck-Worn-RELIC-/190561927794?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item2c5e604272"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Af...=item2c5e604272[/url]

:)[/quote]

Haha!! That's the best!! Can't thank you enough for finding that, my sister thought I was being a dirty git smirkin' at porn!

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[quote name='Rick's Fine '52' post='1325603' date='Aug 3 2011, 01:06 PM']There are some, good, genuinely authentic looking relic´s out there, although thre are far more bad úns, how about this one, without doubt the worst i´ve seen, some people have genuinly missed the point about what a relic look is supposed to replicate;

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Affinity-Standard-Strat-Neck-Worn-RELIC-/190561927794?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item2c5e604272"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Af...=item2c5e604272[/url]

:)[/quote]

Ha - I love what he says about it:

"This is a really cool Worn Relic Fender Squier Affinity Standard neck!

Off a 2002 Standard Squier this neck is in great condition and has a custom Relic job done by a local luthier.

FULLY LOADED!"

Fully loaded with what??!? Loaded with mojo? Loaded with frets and a nut? It's just the neck - no tuners, no strings, no body, no sense? (EDIT: I tell a lie, it does come with tuners)

It looks awful. The "local luthier" should be ashamed of him or her self.

At least they're only asking £60 for the neck though, not £1300 like that ridiculous Strat guy.

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