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Here’s a free tip. If you look at SRV’s guitar the bare wood spots are much darker. Take a pencil and shade in those spots like you would a sketch. Then take your finger and smudge it. It simulates the worn-out grimey wood look very well.
I think it looks killer ! I love extreme relic guitars, you can treat it like a guitar instead of with kids hands worrying about scratching it, great job man 🎸👍🏆.
Relics go too far where the guitar is destroyed! It should appear to be a natural progression of wear not making it look water logged and mistreated! 😂
The 64,000 dollar question: What do you use to make the stencil? I've seen the templates, but what do you trace them to (and how), and how does this medium stick to the guitar and peel off? Thanks!
Don’t pretend you reliced the entire body yourself too much haha. I bought a guitar body from Allen Eden that looks exactly like this. I’d paste the link but I don’t want UA-cam to auto remove the comment :)
@@bewusstsein3527 Nothing wrong with using sand paper, lots of people do it that way. It should be fine grit though. Relic'ing takes a lot of time patience and re-evaluation your work regularly. Have a plan in mind, don't just fuck up the instrument....
I have a 80's tele that is pretty beat up. I thought about doing this but the more i think the more dishonest it seems..kind of like buying patches to put on your new leather jacket for your new "harley" style Honda...
@@massive_walnut4602 Well vintage guitars only sound good because of the natural petrification process of the woods that its made of, the wood become drier, harder, the glue it has crystalizes further and the finish of the guitar as well, which slowly but surely gives the guitar more natural resonance and sustain. Obviously, the better made it was, the better it will sound when it's aged, due to the better materials. But to relic a guitar is only an aesthetic thing, it has no real equivalence to an actual aged guitar.
It looks exactly like the SRV guitar i bought from Sunfield Music store. Minus the pickguard .. i need to replace the tuners due to the fact that it will not stay in tune. Otherwise a pretty cool guitar. Thanks for sharing bro.
I got a relic Steinberger G4 and I wish it wasn’t . It suffered a flood few years back so I’m struggling with if I want it relect or total restoration . I hate fk relic I think it stupid. I use to love old strats but now days ya can’t tell.
The problem really is that the finishes they put on guitars now are much tougher than guitars in the 60s. If you buy an American Standard Strat it will never truly age like those old ones.
@@UmAdxXbRo oh and one thing i forgot to ask. i have Strat but not Fender or Squier. my guitar brand is Darling . will it be nice tone too? it's a budget guitar in Malaysia and the price is RM 500 ( 120 US dollars ) . did i need to change guitar setup ? and if i need to change can you suggest me which one is nice
super easy ..and stuff like that...thats all you do. no instruction at all. how do you age the wood? what kind of paint do you use how do you get multiple layers of colors how do you dull the paint as he says. this kid made a video and skipped about 5,000 steps and all he kept saying is how easy it is. then why not show each and every one of the steps? let me guess that would take a lot of time and let me guess something else it wouldn't be easy to make an actual video of how to relic a guitar
There is no "Cheap way" to relic a guitar other than time. It is very obyius even when a company like Sure does it that it is not "Real"-I would never pay for relicing on a 3,000 instrument. They want an additional 1,500-I have worked with many national & international bands. I have NEVER senn anyone of them with a "Custom Relic". This is over a period of 40+ years. Naturally this was not even heard of in the 70s-80s. I even recall when there were no RF anything.
You should leave the guitar at a smokers house to make it sound better..get all the bar smoke into the tone wood......honestly I think relic is super phony wanting it look like its been on tour. And like you played the shit out of it....its an attention thing if you think about it look at me and my mojo
I’m just here to say please.. please don’t do this to your guitars. That switch in your head saying I don’t know if I want to do this or not we’ll this is your conscious speaking to you saying, don’t do that shit! Put the sand paper down and forget what you were about to do and yes it’s a bad idea 🎸 ✌🏼
Buy a guitar, join a band and keep gigging for 30 years - voila! Taking a shortcut is completely missing the point, is a terrible thing to do to a guitar and is a completely naff display of inauthenticity and daftness. What next? Pre-crashed cars? Pre-smoked lungs? Utter madness.
Pre-smoked lungs and a pre-reliced guitar. All one would need next is a pre-blown off head, a bunch of shitty songs & one would be the second coming of Kurt Cobain. No disrespect of course.
You understand that modern guitars are made with poly finishes that will NEVER wear like the old ones. You could play them for 50 years and the only way the age is thick plastic finish crumbling off. It looks terrible.
@@Ironworthstriking That may be the case, but that doesn't make it a good idea to fake an old guitar, that's just missing the point of 'old' entirely - old should be old and new should be new and in-between should remain in-between. Authenticity - like a real Harley versus a Japanese copy, a head of real hair versus a toupe, a genuine poker winner versus a cheat...
@@trevorlahey4201 yeah its kinda like beating up your car though and calling it a vintage car, if its already old then its fine i suppose but i just don't get why'd you wanna purposely mess your guitar up, but hey man who am i to stop anyone that wants to do that
@@christhelostsoul9927 I’d never call it vintage, it’s just a look. I’d buy a legitimate vintage strat that’s been naturally beat to shit if I could, but I can’t
Here’s a free tip. If you look at SRV’s guitar the bare wood spots are much darker. Take a pencil and shade in those spots like you would a sketch. Then take your finger and smudge it. It simulates the worn-out grimey wood look very well.
just go to walmart and buy some graphite powder
@@mouseguts02 or use a pencil as recommended, why spend unnecessarily.
Cigarette ash.
Coffee grinds
Brilliant
I think it looks killer ! I love extreme relic guitars, you can treat it like a guitar instead of with kids hands worrying about scratching it, great job man 🎸👍🏆.
I bought a factory reliced guitar and loving it. I have been using it and also displayed in our living room. I have the cort sunset tc worn butter. 😊
Relics go too far where the guitar is destroyed! It should appear to be a natural progression of wear not making it look water logged and mistreated! 😂
This looks almost the same as the Mike McCready relic fender just put out for $22k. Check it out.
@@chaos4316 just gonna say the same lmao
I agree the only relic I want to do is relic-ed parts and a dulled poly finish
@@gfj06people are buying relics based on someone elses usage??? W👀W 😂 Relic towards how you play! Watch & ring dings, bracelet scuffs etc! 😁😁😁
It is all opinion. I personally love when guitars look like they have been through hell and back.
That's how I do it! Start from bare wood! I mask all the wear spots. You're strat looks great!!
Your*
I just play mine and they wear out naturally, ya ought to try it
@@nasticanasta some of us are in our 30s and don't have another 40 years to wait for a natural relic tho
Your strat came out really good man.
The 64,000 dollar question: What do you use to make the stencil? I've seen the templates, but what do you trace them to (and how), and how does this medium stick to the guitar and peel off? Thanks!
Where did you get the relic stencil from?
Don’t pretend you reliced the entire body yourself too much haha. I bought a guitar body from Allen Eden that looks exactly like this. I’d paste the link but I don’t want UA-cam to auto remove the comment :)
Looks great! I also like how you went with a hardtail body.
I fixed my Fire Fly FFLP. Locking tuners. Gotoh roller bridge. New nut. New switch. New potentiometer. Seymour Duncan 59’s. Unreal
Wait aren’t you the jeep guy I used to watch all the time?! My man!
I think it looks pretty good… I don’t think some people realize that the paint job has 0% to do with the tone😂❤
“If I had a hammer” “I’d hammer my guitar” “I’d hammer on the neck” “I’d hammer on the body”
“To make it look hammered”
Looks almost like Vaughn’s,very epic
For those who think relicing is cheating, let me ask you, when was the last time you bought a pair of denim jeans that weren't pre faded?
I messed up my guitar trying to do relic just now...
Same with me.. i used a sand paper lol..
@@bewusstsein3527 Nothing wrong with using sand paper, lots of people do it that way. It should be fine grit though.
Relic'ing takes a lot of time patience and re-evaluation your work regularly. Have a plan in mind, don't just fuck up the instrument....
@@bewusstsein3527 did using sandpaper fuck it all up? was planning on doing this with my stratocaster from squier
Nice work, looks good, makes sense
I have a 80's tele that is pretty beat up. I thought about doing this but the more i think the more dishonest it seems..kind of like buying patches to put on your new leather jacket for your new "harley" style Honda...
@@massive_walnut4602 Well vintage guitars only sound good because of the natural petrification process of the woods that its made of, the wood become drier, harder, the glue it has crystalizes further and the finish of the guitar as well, which slowly but surely gives the guitar more natural resonance and sustain. Obviously, the better made it was, the better it will sound when it's aged, due to the better materials. But to relic a guitar is only an aesthetic thing, it has no real equivalence to an actual aged guitar.
looks damn good brother
Wow that showed us just how to do it.
Your relic job is spot on. 👍
Omg. Awesomeeee!!!!
Any chance you have any video on how step by step on the relic strat
It looks exactly like the SRV guitar i bought from Sunfield Music store. Minus the pickguard .. i need to replace the tuners due to the fact that it will not stay in tune. Otherwise a pretty cool guitar. Thanks for sharing bro.
its a Amazon Guitar
Looks cool
just play the hell out of it and do it right
I got a relic Steinberger G4 and I wish it wasn’t . It suffered a flood few years back so I’m struggling with if I want it relect or total restoration . I hate fk relic I think it stupid. I use to love old strats but now days ya can’t tell.
Fender also makes custom shop guitars that don't look like shit.
is this a bullet strat ? hardt
is your baseball cap aged with bacon?
I wanna naturally relic mine but thats gonna take forever so I MIGHT do this
The problem really is that the finishes they put on guitars now are much tougher than guitars in the 60s. If you buy an American Standard Strat it will never truly age like those old ones.
@@Ironworthstriking shame. Unless you lightly sanded it or replaced the finish all together.
I just bought my firefly "srv" relic for $200 instead
that SRV decal is so cheap it looks like something from home depot
Love the look
if relic a guitar did the tone will be effect too?
Yes it’ll sound like a 60s strat
@@UmAdxXbRo thank you dude. that's what i wanna know . i gonna relic my guitar :D
@@UmAdxXbRo oh and one thing i forgot to ask. i have Strat but not Fender or Squier. my guitar brand is Darling . will it be nice tone too? it's a budget guitar in Malaysia and the price is RM 500 ( 120 US dollars ) . did i need to change guitar setup ? and if i need to change can you suggest me which one is nice
No it won't
@@f2detaboada ohh okay okay thank you dude! i'll just need to buy a pickup Fender brand. thanks once again. i really appreciate
Great job 👍
Good job, looks very convincing. Where does one get those stencils?
Reverb they sale out super quick
@@RonaldLeggettJr thanks man. Nice guitars bro.
How did you dull the finish? Looks amazing
I would imagine Steel Wool. Should do the trick.
super easy ..and stuff like that...thats all you do.
no instruction at all.
how do you age the wood?
what kind of paint do you use how do you get multiple layers of colors
how do you dull the paint as he says.
this kid made a video and skipped about 5,000 steps and all he kept saying is how easy it is.
then why not show each and every one of the steps? let me guess that would take a lot of time
and let me guess something else it wouldn't be easy to make an actual video of how to relic a guitar
Lol, a stencil
Reliced guitars are full on window lickin stupid.
That relic piece looks like shit tho
There is no "Cheap way" to relic a guitar other than time. It is very obyius even when a company like Sure does it that it is not "Real"-I would never pay for relicing on a 3,000 instrument. They want an additional 1,500-I have worked with many national & international bands. I have NEVER senn anyone of them with a "Custom Relic". This is over a period of 40+ years. Naturally this was not even heard of in the 70s-80s. I even recall when there were no RF anything.
You should leave the guitar at a smokers house to make it sound better..get all the bar smoke into the tone wood......honestly I think relic is super phony wanting it look like its been on tour. And like you played the shit out of it....its an attention thing if you think about it look at me and my mojo
Some people just like the way it looks.
@@asdasdae yeah because it looks like its been played for years its phony
@@davidwile1277 It’s phony and I like it to
I’m just here to say please.. please don’t do this to your guitars. That switch in your head saying I don’t know if I want to do this or not we’ll this is your conscious speaking to you saying, don’t do that shit! Put the sand paper down and forget what you were about to do and yes it’s a bad idea 🎸 ✌🏼
You just stopped someone from doing this. Thank you!
Surge LaChance glad I could help you friend. Love that guitar until it gets that way of old age and tells a true story.
Bla bla bla ....bored
Awful!!!!!!!!
Buy a guitar, join a band and keep gigging for 30 years - voila! Taking a shortcut is completely missing the point, is a terrible thing to do to a guitar and is a completely naff display of inauthenticity and daftness. What next? Pre-crashed cars? Pre-smoked lungs? Utter madness.
Shut up
Pre-smoked lungs and a pre-reliced guitar. All one would need next is a pre-blown off head, a bunch of shitty songs & one would be the second coming of Kurt Cobain.
No disrespect of course.
You understand that modern guitars are made with poly finishes that will NEVER wear like the old ones. You could play them for 50 years and the only way the age is thick plastic finish crumbling off. It looks terrible.
@@Ironworthstriking That may be the case, but that doesn't make it a good idea to fake an old guitar, that's just missing the point of 'old' entirely - old should be old and new should be new and in-between should remain in-between. Authenticity - like a real Harley versus a Japanese copy, a head of real hair versus a toupe, a genuine poker winner versus a cheat...
@@daveg4236 I won't. I hate relic'd guitars, they represent stolen-valour...
I hate relics.
Yeah i can see why. its kinda stupid honestly it doesn't even make sense
@@christhelostsoul9927 It makes perfect sense. Ripped jeans, rat rod cars, rusted signs, and relic guitars.
@@trevorlahey4201 yeah its kinda like beating up your car though and calling it a vintage car, if its already old then its fine i suppose but i just don't get why'd you wanna purposely mess your guitar up, but hey man who am i to stop anyone that wants to do that
@@christhelostsoul9927 I’d never call it vintage, it’s just a look. I’d buy a legitimate vintage strat that’s been naturally beat to shit if I could, but I can’t
poser.... all my guitars are worn by playing them!