ok so i want a Fender Road Worn Strat. But money troubles and prices prevent me from getting one. So i was wondering is there a way to make my Fender Road Worn w/o spending any money. Basically wearing the paint and stuff like that. Any help would be appreciated!!

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I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk...

Tie it to the back of a car and drag it down the street.

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Hmm, Probably the same idea, except maybe sanding it or something? I suppose you could do That..

Or, go here for some more ideas, "hot off the presses":

http://www.fender.com/community/forums/ ... hp?t=25786

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OK, Martian, here goes--
light it on fire
smash a drum kit with it
toss it in the back of your Hemi Ram with the dogs and empty PBR cans
let rodeo clowns use it to distract angry bulls
set it under the next space shuttle launch
drop it down the stairs from the top of the Statue of Liberty
use it as an oar
drop it in an open cess pool
use it as a target at a spitting contest http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/ ... spitting_1
give Steven Tyler two to use as crutches

Oh jeeze, These are Too Painfull To imagine

Just play it for the next 40 years, keep the strings and tuners in shape, and you'll wind up with a $20'000.00 relic that your kids will pawn.


John.E

Yeah. like hours after they stick you in an old folks home

Do a web search on guitar relicing or making relic guitars as there are a number of websites out there with how-to's if you really want to do it.

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LMAO!!!

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Go play the $@!& out of it. I am starting to lose my mind seeing so many people worried about how there guitar looks or turning it into a relic. I mean is it going to make you play better thrashing it .And this is not aimed directly at you Ryder it is everyone who wants to do these things.You are saying money is tight so are you saying you would gamble and take your standard and rip it all up. Say it comes out like $@!& which as we have seen from others happens often.Then what? Every time you go play your going to hear people say what the hell happened. I could remember banging a telecaster on the edge of a coffee table when I was young and I swear I could not sleep for two days thinking of the gash in that guitar. Go and woodshed thats all that matters. I really would like to see guys ask more questions about arpeggio substitution,scales,chord embelishments anything but ripping up another guitar. Believe me it is 18 months since I last played try and go 18 days so you can imagine where my head is at but the most important thing to me was how well I was playing or what can I improve on. When everything is put away and your done yea its nice to talk gear. But you have a nice guitar plus your a lefty but if you want it that bad save up for it dont ruin a perfectly good ax.

I agree 1,000%!

straycat113,

I'm sure you'll remember, "back in the day", the mindset of, if you had a Strat and a Marshall stack, these were the necessary (and oftentimes, the only), perceived prerequisites for one to play just like Hendrix, a Firebird and a Twin, like Johnny Winter and so on. IMO, apparently the popularity of this deliberate desecration of one's guitar is within these same lines of Symbolic Interactionism. Consider: A new looking guitar is a representation of a 'blank slate'. Conversely, if one has a beat to hell looking guitar, this 'badge' enables said player to have the look and by 'necessity', the osmosis like ability to absorb and demonstrate the inherent characteristics of a seasoned player. Or to put it more plainly, if the guitar is perceived as inexperienced, so will it's player be. Subconscious level as it may be, this is the only reasoning to this phenomenon I can think of.

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i actually gave some thought that night and decided i didn't want to do it. Since i was 13 i wanted a Fender Strat so that i would have what the pros have. Realizing the damage i would have to do to my guitar, i was disgusted with myself. So i figured I'd let it age overtime. I don't know how that'll happen tho lol, i keep my guitar in mint condition. But i realized that i don't think i'd have the heart to go and just, basically, destroy my guitar.

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I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk...

Just do the obvious. Buy a well-used guitar.

Then use it some more.

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