How to beat up a guitar
August 28th, 2007 by Derek
The Wall Street Journal shows how the Fender guitar company creates its relic guitars (via J-Walk), which are brand new instruments that have been scratched, scraped, sanded, burned, and generally abused to appear as if they have been well used and played for decades. It’s a strange process, but one for which there is significant demand.
Personally, I prefer to let my guitars age the old fashioned way, but lots of people enjoy the feel of a broken-in neck and cigarette-burned body, and if they want to spend an extra $500 USD to get it, that’s up to them.
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1. Michael van Laar&hellip | September 21st, 2007 at 12:44 am
Isn’t this the same strange thing as the jeans with cut trouser legs and tattered ends you could buy in the 90′s ;-) They were even more expensive than the normal ones. Buying a whole pair and then cutting and tettering them yourself was the cheaper solution.
Some people seem to have too much money …
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