Buying a new guitar that is " ROAD WORN " is the most retarded thing ever!!! I love fender anyway, it is people that i hate. If you want a guitar used and kind of "road worn" buy a 59 or a 62 or an 82 i dont know but never a 2011 $@!&*% up guitar.

Yeah sealed after a good bit of drying out then baking. To make sure the moisture can't get back in.

I'm sorry but using green wood for anything that requires the slightest amount of rigidity is a no no.
Guitar bodies don't breathe, that is a nonsense idea. I'm a damn sight more resilient than a tree. However should I be felled at the ankle, flayed of my skin, sawn into pieces. Then left completely alone in a dark room, with no sunlight, water or food for even a week. How alive much breathing do you think I'd be doing?
That wood your guitar is made from is long dead. Wood breathing is nothing but some doggerel made up by some ignorant buffoon to convince the unknowing that their guitars are in some way better. Then nonsense has spread and been taken as truth en mass.

Good read on wood harvesting and treatment
http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1957/5017/Various_Factors_ocr.pdf?sequence=1
1st paragraph of page2 in particular.

Didn't mean to get anyone's panties in a bunch, but saying that the wood "breathes" is a common term used by many, including Fender, that simply means that the body wood is allowed to further dry out, as in one with a nitro finish will continue to "age" and dry out if allowed to "breathe". In other words, if the wood isn't sealed, and air is allowed to contact the wood, it will continue to dry out, which is desirable for an instrument body. I don't think that anyone actually believes that wood has lungs. The term "breathe" is also used to describe how different fabrics allow air to pass through them, as in "cotton breathes better than polyester", knowing that fabric has no lungs either. Maybe we need a separate part of the forum for English lessons, both the King's and American English.

Breathe: (used as an intransitive verb)
3. b : to become perceptible : be expressed <a personality that breathes and that distinguishes his work — Bennett Schiff>



6. : to feel free of restraint <needs room to breathe>

8. a : to permit passage of air or vapor <a fabric that breathes>