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If you're not sick of this one yet... here's the pics of the completed project:

Love it. The colour is awesome.

that thing is perfect in so many ways

Thanks guys... I'm really proud of it.

Fran wrote:Love it. The colour is awesome.

+1 :D

I love it. You did an excellent job on the relicing, it actually looks like a real vintage guitar, unlike most other relics. If you ever wanted to become a forger, you'd make a killing selling to gullible collectors with too much money!

So... when are you going to build a Jaguar to go with the Jazzy?

if you were to sell that how much would you sell it for?

robert(original) wrote:if you were to sell that how much would you sell it for?

hmmmmm... i dunno. I plan to hang onto it at least for awhile.

You make bodies, don't you? Lets go into business...

it actually looks like a real vintage guitar, unlike most other relics

Thanks! That's nice to know, and was my intent.

The thing about relics is to avoid the belt sander. Vintage nitro tends to check and then flake off between the checks. Once it's started, it comes off very easily, even with a fingernail. I tried to create that rather than the fake "play wear" that most people go for. The closest I came to that was doing some extra polishing on the forearm contour, it's shinier and a little more pink.

Of all the vintage guitars I've seen, very few were played to the extent that the finish completely buffed off down to the wood. Not many people play with sandpaper sleeves! A vintage guitar is far more likely to have dings, checking, and the associated flaking.

if you feel like grain filling and sanding them im down for it.
i just haven't the time nor the patience to grain fill and sand an ash jazzy body.

Beautiful looking guitar, I've never seen the point of the whole relic thing but I cannot deny that this looks sweet.

I've never seen the point of the whole relic thing

Blame Keith Richards. He had the custom shop masterbuild him a Tele and his only complaint was "it looks too new". He wanted the reliability of a brand new guitar but the looks of his megabucks '52. Legend has it that they beat it up for him and it started this whole nonsense.

I must say, I think it's kinda silly too. But if I gigged (which I don't) I'd rather play something that looks like vintage Jazzmaster, but I wouldnt have to worry so much about electronics going bad, beating the thing up, or having it stolen....

but I cannot deny that this looks sweet

Thanks!

theres that relic story and two others.
another one is a strat called mergatroid. i forget who plays it, but its a heavily modified 62. and the guy wanted 2 replica's of it, cept they have to be EXACT!
another story is the guy that started the relic craze actually went to the same school as me, went into the custom shop team with fender and showed them a replica strat that he had "relic'd himself and they thought that looked cool so they started from there.
all of these stories probly have a small amount of truth to them, but i doubt any of them are 100% correct.

yeah... you never know.

I found a very early CS relic (1994 IIRC '56 Mary Kaye Strat) in a pawn shop last year. On researching it, I read the Keith Richards story... i forget the source but it was accredited to John Page. I'm sure there were other factors. Mine (like all of the first run) was outsourced to Vince Cunetto for the relicing, then assembled at the Custom Shop.

I paid $800 and sold it on feeBay for $3250. One of my schemes that actually paid off...

This relic looks much better than most I've seen, much more natural. I hate DIY ones on more modern guitars that look like the paint has been chipped off with a hammer. Thick paint generally makes for a crappy relic. I think if more relics were done like this I'd be more into them.......damn I think I like relics now.

Thinking aboiut it logically I can understand players not wanting a spanky new guitar, I much prefer a pre-dinged instrument as it stops me being too cautious with it (I hate putting the 1st ding in myself).

All in all this is a top project and it makes me sooo tempted to attempt one.

I forgot to ask, what was the final cost for this?

I hate relicing, but this is cool (I suspect that's going to be the general trend of people posting in this thread). I think fullerplast made the point well that this is different because it's been reliced properly. Most relics are fairly implausible. You'll see some dick playing chords on his expensive new strat, and you look at it and thing "You're not a working musician, you've just taken a sander to your guitar, and nobody's fooled. You look like a dick." This looks cool, and has been done properly so that it looks like a proper played instrument.

On saying that, I would much prefer to relic a guitar the proper way, by playing hard on it for thirty years.

BacchusPaul wrote:On saying that, I would much prefer to relic a guitar the proper way, by playing hard on it for thirty years.

lol, I said hard on.

Looks amazing, Doug. +1 on the relic thing. Usually hate 'em, but yours have been most tasteful. I love the Strat you did, too.

Dinosauria wrote:I forgot to ask, what was the final cost for this?

Around $750... but I had some of the hardware already on hand.