Relicing... Think it over
Something I never understood: People that relic a guitar.
So you take a new guitar, put a sanding machine against the body, put the machine heads and plastics in several solutions to give it a used/aged look.
It's basically like scratching a new car and hoping it to rust. Some people even have weird ways to relic a guitar ;-)
In rare cases I can understand you want your guitar to look like the aged guitar of your idol. Strange thing is: unless the artist relic is done on a new guitar, the sound would never be the same...
So it's a purely esthetic destruction of the guitar basically... If I haven't convinced you not to relic, just some advice:
1. don't try it on a poly finish guitar.
2. Don't forget, beautiful wood grain tops only have a thin layer of veneer. So don't mess with a screwdriver.
3. Once you start, there is no way back than to completely refinish the guitar. And that is far from easy!
Anyways... Still hope that I might have convinced you NOT to relic.
So you take a new guitar, put a sanding machine against the body, put the machine heads and plastics in several solutions to give it a used/aged look.
It's basically like scratching a new car and hoping it to rust. Some people even have weird ways to relic a guitar ;-)
In rare cases I can understand you want your guitar to look like the aged guitar of your idol. Strange thing is: unless the artist relic is done on a new guitar, the sound would never be the same...
So it's a purely esthetic destruction of the guitar basically... If I haven't convinced you not to relic, just some advice:
1. don't try it on a poly finish guitar.
2. Don't forget, beautiful wood grain tops only have a thin layer of veneer. So don't mess with a screwdriver.
3. Once you start, there is no way back than to completely refinish the guitar. And that is far from easy!
Anyways... Still hope that I might have convinced you NOT to relic.
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