Relic-ing: is it still a thing?

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Nothing against relicing, but we should accept it's just shabby chic for boys...

Is this any different?

Even by shabby chic standards (something I don't really like that much), that is pretty bad!

[BigRedX]

On 20/04/2019 at 13:30, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

It doesn’t look particularly oxygen deficient to me 😂

That’s because my iPad won’t let me say re-sprayed without putting in the hyphen 

[BigRedX]

On 20/04/2019 at 15:41, Woodinblack said:

Even by shabby chic standards (something I don't really like that much), that is pretty bad!

Just shabby. Not chic.

[Maude]

Relicking most definitely exists in lots of other areas, shabby chic furniture, ratlook cars and bikes, ripped and faded clothes, tarnished and dented brass instruments, scratched and faded string instruments, etc. All fair enough, whether you like it or not doesn't matter as it's most definitely a popular style, the one thing that does matter is that Antigua finish exists and only exists in the guitar/bass world and should be stamped out. Even the bizarre world of fashion or the unemployable that declare themselves 'interior designers' wouldn't stoop this low, so what does that say about lovers of Antigua. Wronguns the lot of ya! 

[skankdelvar]

3 hours ago, Maude said:

the one thing that does matter is that Antigua finish exists

I always thought I must be the only person with a severe reaction to the Antigua finish. Evidently not.

Perhaps we should form an Antigua survivors group: 10-step talking-it-out sessions; hands-on massages from qualified 'practitioners'; aversion therapy involving three week trips to Antigua (the place).

The government should pay for this support; we're the victims, after all.

[Woodinblack]

Antigua finish is one of those things that should have been tried but never released. Every finish should be tried, and then some of them released, and some of them, such as antigua, the person who made it should have been slapped and told not to be so stupid.

[skankdelvar]

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[MoonBassAlpha]

Looks like someone has smeared their bum  all round the edges of those poor guitars

[Woodinblack]

Maybe it is designed to look like those 50s music videos where people had white instruments and it blew out the sensors on the camera?

[MoonBassAlpha]

I think the term was solarizing.

[Cato]

37 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

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Some pervert's even done the headstocks.

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[leftybassman392]

38 minutes ago, skankdelvar said:

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Waddya know; they do lefties too! 

[BreadBin]

1 hour ago, skankdelvar said:

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I didn't know what Antigua was, now I wish I still didn't! 🤮

[Skinnyman]

39 minutes ago, MoonBassAlpha said:

Looks like someone has smeared their bum  all round the edges of those poor guitars

Which you'd have to grudgingly admire for sheer dedication if nothing else.....

[wateroftyne]

Relicing = a very good thing. IME.

[skankdelvar]

The web site from which I nicked the Antigua wall of shame pic alleges that the Antigua finish was born back in the late 60's when the body binding process employed on the Coronado II accidentally burned the edges of the body.

The site continues: "Instead of chucking the bodies, Fender developed a color scheme that burst from black on the burned edges to a type of mustard yellow on the inside of the burst". 

So, not quite the same as the Antigua we know and - er - love. It's even nastier (or nicer, if one is that way inclined).

[Skinnyman]

24 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

Relicing = a very good thing. IME.

Now that's nice - but it doesn't look reliced at all, it just looks like a nice bass

[wateroftyne]

8 minutes ago, Skinnyman said:

Now that's nice - but it doesn't look reliced at all, it just looks like a nice bass

The difference is it doesn't shine - it glows.

[Maude]

3 hours ago, skankdelvar said:

I always thought I must be the only person with a severe reaction to the Antigua finish. Evidently not.

Perhaps we should form an Antigua survivors group: 10-step talking-it-out sessions; hands-on massages from qualified 'practitioners'; aversion therapy involving three week trips to Antigua (the place).

The government should pay for this support; we're the victims, after all.

If you think it would help I'd be happy to give that a go, as long as it was fully funded of course. 

Maybe the hotel in Antigua where the rehabilitation would take place should have a catchy name like Antigua Support Scheme Inclusive Therapy Care Home, although a bit long it could be abbreviated. 

[Stub Mandrel]

5 hours ago, skankdelvar said:

I always thought I must be the only person with a severe reaction to the Antigua finish. Evidently not.

Perhaps we should form an Antigua survivors group: 10-step talking-it-out sessions; hands-on massages from qualified 'practitioners'; aversion therapy involving three week trips to Antigua (the place).

The government should pay for this support; we're the victims, after all.

Move from anti-gua to pro-gua?

I must admit I always thought that finish was just a bad sunburst.

I am now traumatised by seeing it applied around f-holes.

It's a sort of 'dirty sanchez' for guitars...

[Stub Mandrel]

2 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

Relicing = a very good thing. IME.

That's cheating. It actually looks like a real old guitar rather than a fake!

Perhaps that's the sort we really ought to worry about?

[skankdelvar]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Move from anti-gua to pro-gua?

Nice work, Sir 

[stewblack]

I don't have a dog in this particular fight so it's been fun reading all the different views. As is often the case one thing I have noticed is that the only people getting upset about the issue seem to be those posting how they "don't understand why people get so upset about the issue". 

Which has a pleasant irony to it. 

[Stub Mandrel]

10 hours ago, stewblack said:

I don't have a dog in this particular fight so it's been fun reading all the different views. As is often the case one thing I have noticed is that the only people getting upset about the issue seem to be those posting how they "don't understand why people get so upset about the issue". 

Which has a pleasant irony to it. 

Not as ironic as someone who feels upset enough to post that 'the only people getting upset about the issue seem to be those posting how they "don't understand why people get so upset about the issue". '

I could have opened to door to infinite recursion here 😈

 

[MoonBassAlpha]

Infinite recursion - another prog  band name?