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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:53 pm
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Just play it!

Day in, day out, month after month. Then it will be 'properly' aged, not just pretend!

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Your original question contradicts your desires. The "relic" looks the way it does because the guitar is worn or damaged. You cant have a relic without damage. However cosmetic damage and functionality damage are not the same thing and can be achieved by themselves.

http://relicdeluxe.com/

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Red Paul wrote:
Just play it!

Day in, day out, month after month. Then it will be 'properly' aged, not just pretend!



+1

if just playing day in day out month after mont doent work skip sleep play then plenty of time to sleep when your dead


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You could also learn to make it look reliced Ive seen some videos on youtube ... be carefull though its not that simple


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Play. And take care of your instument. It will wear and show wear honestly.

And you will become a more competent player-musician in the process.

That way, (as the daughter would say) neither the guitar nor its player will be a posuer.


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As someone said, relic videos on YouTube. You can kick it down the street a few times or drag it behind a moving vehicle...Spill some sort of acid or chemical on it...Have some sort of power tool accident...Or have your guitar attacked by a wild animal...or at least the relic'd or worn out guitars that people try to sell on eBay tend to look look like these things happened to their guitar...or maybe they just tried to make it look worn out and ruined a perfectly good instrument... :P

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Red Paul wrote:
Just play it!

Day in, day out, month after month. Then it will be 'properly' aged, not just pretend!


+2. Relicing is like marrying a 20 year old woman and then sending her out to the "custom shop" to get wrinkles and saggy boobs.


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Another possible source: look into books on antiquing furniture. These tell you how to add the look of plausible wear to wood, age metal and plastic and so on. You'd have to adapt the guidelines to how a guitar wears, but the same techniques should work.

My own personal choice has been to wear mine out the natural way. My 35 year old Mustang looks like it's been around because -- it has!


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