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Post subject: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:28 pm
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I think how fender busts the perfectly great guitars up is horrible. And some carry very high prices biger than when it wasent all crappy.


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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:32 pm
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i think its fine. i actually quit like the look of the road worn series

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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:51 am
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Many people love the look of a rode hard and put away wet guitar! I agree with you on this point, they are too !@#$%^ expensive, lol. Basically they are the Classic Series guitars finished in nitro (because it is easier to relic than poly) and you are paying $100+/- more for the finish, and I suppose the more "hands on" time it takes to whip the @$!# out of them! LOL. I think it is foolish that for $100 more than the road worn models, you can buy an American Standard ( which comes with a hard case too!) . I think the MIM road worn and classic series guitars would be better priced at about $600 - $650.....personally. :)


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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:54 pm
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I'd no sooner buy a reliced or Roadworn new guitar than I'd buy a reliced or roadworn new car-makes no sense and then to pay more money for it not for me-I think more of my hard earned dollars than to waste it on guitar poseurism and vanity.

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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:40 pm
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Yah i agree

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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:22 pm
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I agree with you on this.....I do like the LOOK of a worn guitar....but I won't pay those prices for one that is made to look like a worn one. I like honest play wear.....Paying more for something that's made with finish flaws?????? NUTS


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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:18 pm
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Remembering a daughter in high school's slang...the word, "poseur" comes to mind.


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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:24 pm
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Hi JSJH I mentioned "poseurism" in this thread a few posts before this one,and Roadworns and Reliced guitars are for poseurs who want to look like the wear on their guitars is from years of dedicated playing.All this is a crock because anyone that values his instrument doesn't let it get beat up to the extent that these poseur guitars do anyway.

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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:04 am
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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:48 pm
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What is a crime is deliberately disrespecting an instrument. Legitimate "battle scars" from years of routine play are one thing......trashing a guitar in the interest of creating simulated "mojo" is like some incorrigible yuppie padding his resume.

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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:27 pm
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It may not be a crime, but it is stupid. Just my opinion.

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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 2:03 am
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Hey dude where you been?
I've been at my gramps house he passed away last week
Dude I'm so sorry I didn't know
Yeah thanks man we had to clear out his house after the funeral, there sure was a heap of stuff in that old house, we had a fire in the backyard for most of the stuff, mom said I could keep the old guitar ( 57' Strat) he kept under the bed," been there for as long as I can remember" she said, when i was young I remember mother was always shoutin at him to turn that darn thing off and do some more things around the house, your grampaw never did get much chance to play it, truth be told all I ever seen him do was clean the darn thing, I'm sure he loved that stupid guitar more than us kids at times, I'd soon as through the thing in the fire along with the other junk he kept all these years, anyways you can have it as I know you listen to all that music and It'll be something to remind you of your gramps.
Awsome dude we should definatly start a band or sumthin, what kind of guitar is it?
Dude we don't even play guitars, I think it's a Fedner or sumthing like that I aint even looked at it yet
Well lets go look( opens case Qh dude that sucks, you got one of them old shiny sunbursty things, we shud modernize it if we're gonna be a band all the new guitars are road worn or sumthin I've seen them in the guitar store window,
yeah lets do it, I'll get my dads tool box, he's got a load of hammers and sandpaper and spanners and stuff in there, Dude we are gonna be AWSOME

It's going to happen one day, mark my words, they just don't appeal to me at all, I walk right past them


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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 8:32 am
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ripitup, either you are an astute observer of some current earthling behaviour...

...or Man, you gotta get your meds re-balanced.

'Wonder if mopes like you metioned, "relic" their Kawasaki Ninjas or Toyota pickups...?


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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:18 pm
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JSJH wrote:
ripitup, either you are an astute observer of some current earthling behaviour...

...or Man, you gotta get your meds re-balanced.

'Wonder if mopes like you metioned, "relic" their Kawasaki Ninjas or Toyota pickups...?

:lol: :lol: :lol: Hop and grape imbalance JSJH, I should know better :oops:


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Post subject: Re: Is road worn a crime!?
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 7:32 pm
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Guitar squirrel wrote:
I think how fender busts the perfectly great guitars up is horrible. ....


I agree 101%. Road Worns, Relics, etc., are nothing but poseur guitars, plain and simple. No one will convince me otherwise.


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