Oh God, they're all at it now! Relics!!

[itsmedunc]

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FENDER-Telecaster-body-ROADWORN-RELIC-by-squier-/151130635436?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2330167cac"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FENDER-Telecaster-body-ROADWORN-RELIC-by-squier-/151130635436?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2330167cac[/url] Strangely enough, it looks a lot better than a lot of the 'relics' I've seen on ebay!

[BetaFunk]

I can see in the future that there's going to be a big market for guitars and basses that have been fortunate enough to have avoided the orbital sander.

[MB1]

MB1.
There was a time...

[chris_b]

The furniture industry has had "distressing" for years but for me "relicing" is just a huge waste of money.

Do lots of gigs, carry your bass in a plastic bag if you have to, but relic your bass the natural way.

[Happy Jack]

Plastic bag?

Luxury!

We 'ad to drag t'bass along motorway wit' piece o' string ... etc. etc. etc. [i]ad infinitum[/i]

[ras52]

[quote name='MB1' timestamp='1380188227' post='2221950']
MB1.
There was a time...
[/quote]

I've got a bass
In a bit of a state
There's a tear up the front
It's red and black
I've had it for months
If you think it could look good
Then I guess it should

[ubassman]

Is the opposite to relicing delicing? There seems to be crafty little monkeys hard at work in both

[ubassman]

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1380192338' post='2222041']
I've got a bass
In a bit of a state
There's a tear up the front
It's red and black
I've had it for months
If you think it could look good
Then I guess it should
[/quote]

...Id give it to you if I could
but I sold it on e-bay

[GregBass]

The world is, indeed, a mad place. New instruments attract a premium if they are deliberately damaged to make them look old, while old instruments attract a premium if they are undamaged so that they look new!

[DanEly]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-telecaster-VINTAGE-CLASSIC-BLACK-RELIC-bysquier-/380726480972?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item58a511104c

Interesting.. same seller - different account? Wonder why..

[itsmedunc]

Two days to go and its already reached what it would be worth if it was immaculate! I'm in the wrong trade...

[shizznit]

It's happening in other areas of the musical instrument trade. More so in the brass market. You can now buy saxophones and trumpets that have been relic'd so that they appear that they have been left outside for a couple of weeks. Absolutely daft.

[ras52]

[quote name='GregBass' timestamp='1380277903' post='2223105']
The world is, indeed, a mad place. New instruments attract a premium if they are deliberately damaged to make them look old, while old instruments attract a premium if they are undamaged so that they look new!
[/quote]

Crazy indeed. I'm intending to thin out my collection, so will have a tough time finding which ones are old enough to need cleaning up, and which ones are new enough to need distressing!

[Thunderbird]

I don't get this relic thing they just look like really abused instruments maybe it is just me as I like to keep my stuff in the best condition I can.

[DarkHeart]

they get wear in the most unusual or should that be `unnatural` of places!

[davehux]

I got as far as the JIMI/SRV/Clapton line, before being overcome by the aroma of bovine manure

[icastle]

I have a reliced car.

[discreet]

So does that mean that women will think I'm thirty years younger than I am because I look old..?

[CHRISDABASS]

That's just awful!!

[discreet]

[quote name='CHRISDABASS' timestamp='1380443670' post='2225172']
That's just awful!!
[/quote]

I'm sorry... it was just an observation. I don't look that bad really.