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I've got a light ash korean tele that is brand new; and having more money than sense; I want to age it. I just want one guitar that is not shiny and new and where I'm shitting myself ebvery time I pull it out because Claire might knock it over (like she did a 3 week old guitar a few years back.)
One of you bozo's sent me a link that put me to a site selling 'aged' hardware. (Thanks for that again.) I bought a saddle -mainly out of curiosity and because it had fender written on it which my guitar doesn't.
Ant tips for aging the neck and body????
The best way that I "age" guitars is to keep them about 30 years. Works a treat
The other way to age one is to cut it down the middle and count the rings... :D :D
Jon; when I'm as old as you are.. I'll be able to say I HAVE owned guitars for 30 years. But spring chickens like me have to cheat a little...... :D
And Dearth. Done that... What next??? :-?
Well, how many rings are there???
Ant tips for aging the neck and body????
give it a dogs name, so that it has 7 birthdays per year.
Tips for 'aging' a guitar
Tumble it in a concrete mixer for a few minutes with a shovel full of river pebbles. That ought to do it
triantobebrian — Oct 05, 2008Jon; when I'm as old as you are.. I'll be able to say I HAVE owned guitars for 30 years. But spring chickens like me have to cheat a little...... :D
Actually, I recently sold my 35 year old Les Paul (Kimbara copy). It was my first "decent" guitar, and I paid $630 ish for it 35 years ago. Why did I sell it? Age had done it no favours at all. So I put some cheap new hardware on it and got a good price for it.
I'm not old, I'm....oh wait, yes I am, I'm old....fuck
TTBB,
Some time soon, I'll put up some pics of my 1979 Ibanez Artist so you can see how a properly aged guitar SHOULD look. :)
How many rings does it have in it Howie??? :D
I'll count them tonight. Won't need a saw... natural finish. ;)
I have actually been thinking of doing this to my strat as well. This guy has some good diy advice.
http://www.electric-guitar-review.com/2008/04/24/and-so-begins-egrs-great-tele-relic-experiment-of-2008/
good luck
this one is pretty cool too.
http://www.relicdeluxe.com/default.asp
just a curiosity.... what is the appeal of making a guitar look old and beat up?
I just shake my head in disbelief when I walk into GC and they've got those strats from the freakin custom shop that have big chips of paint scratched off, marks, dings, etc... and they want to charge EXTRA for that crap.
My theory: Take care of your instrument. If after years of playing, it has some wear and tear, it is EARNED. Don't take a new guitar and mark it all up to look like an old one. A year from now you decide you want something different and go to sell it and the buyer looks at it like a beat up piece of crap, and won't bid hardly anything for it. IMHO, of course. :)
DreamTheaterRules — Oct 07, 2008just a curiosity.... what is the appeal of making a guitar look old and beat up?
I don't get that either, why in the world would you take a fine instrument, and make it look old?
desertbluesman — Oct 07, 2008[quote author=DreamTheaterRules link=1223198197/0#13 date=1223396751]just a curiosity.... what is the appeal of making a guitar look old and beat up?
I don't get that either, why in the world would you take a fine instrument, and make it look old?
So it's less likely to be stolen? :D
Hey, TTBB..
I can send you a pic of my Mil to use it as a model, if you want to 'age' Claire too, while you're at it ... ;D
DreamTheaterRules — Oct 07, 2008just a curiosity.... what is the appeal of making a guitar look old and beat up?
I just shake my head in disbelief when I walk into GC and they've got those strats from the freakin custom shop that have big chips of paint scratched off, marks, dings, etc... and they want to charge EXTRA for that crap.
My theory: Take care of your instrument. If after years of playing, it has some wear and tear, it is EARNED. Don't take a new guitar and mark it all up to look like an old one. A year from now you decide you want something different and go to sell it and the buyer looks at it like a beat up piece of crap, and won't bid hardly anything for it. IMHO, of course. :)
I agree with that 100%. I think it's all part of the same culture where people buy jeans that look old. I can't understand that at all. It amazes me how people will suck up marketing and just buy whatever they are told too.
Because if fucking looks cool, thats why.
Bon,
too me, something like SRV's "#1" DOES look cool. But it looks cool because you KNOW how it got that way. Years of SRV banging on it, sweating on it, banging it on the floor while playing "third stone..." etc.
I saw a Custom Shop Strat that was $2200 that had big chunks of paint off of it, dings, corrosion on the metal parts... etc. If it was a REAL 57, then I'd be ok with that. But to pay $1000 for the Custom Shop to do that... Or to take a new guitar and intentionally mark it up AND spend money on "aged" parts.... I don't know man. I mean, totally cool if you like that and want to do it. I just don't get it.
Of course, this from the guy with his pedals in "hermetically sealed boxes" and so forth. :)
If you want old and beat up looking, check out Walter Trout's main axe sitting on my table so I can replace a D string for him (it used to be white!). ;)
http://www.n2-o.com/pics/waltertrout/walters73strat2.jpg
bon — Oct 07, 2008Because if fucking looks cool, thats why.
No it doesn't....it looks like shit.
Jon — Oct 07, 2008[quote author=bon link=1223198197/0#18 date=1223404569]Because if fucking looks cool, thats why.
No it doesn't....it looks like shit.
Hell yea!! +2
Poor Bon. Nicest guy in Joisey and he's gettin' flamed. :)
(Of course I think old stuff looks like it should be replaced with new as well, but what do I know? ;) )
I know I passed on a strat once, because it looked like crap. I was thinking "why would I pay that for a beat up old guitar, when I can get a new one for a couple hundred more." But later I knew I messed up. The older one was a GREAT player. Sounded and felt like a dream. Just looked like crap.
I'm not so much into "character" in a guitar that comes from lots of "hard" use. But would not pass again on a superior instrument, because of appearance. But I sure as heck ain't going to take a nice one and TRY to make it look like that.
That said, I'm not flaming Bon at all, and he knows it. What is cool to him is not my first choice. Nothing wrong with that at all. You know, you like blondes, I like redheads. You like a 65 Mustang, I like an 08 ZO6 Vette. But, I like blondes and 65 Mustangs too! ;)
Hey its nicest motherfucker in the world thank you Craig. And I dont see what the problem is. If you dont like it thats fine. I do. Later
And dont worry Howie. I know we are brothers. ;)
CraigBert — Oct 07, 2008[quote author=desertbluesman link=1223198197/0#14 date=1223398507][quote author=DreamTheaterRules link=1223198197/0#13 date=1223396751]just a curiosity.... what is the appeal of making a guitar look old and beat up?
I don't get that either, why in the world would you take a fine instrument, and make it look old?
So it's less likely to be stolen? :D
Good point, precisely why I buy cheap guitars and fix them up myself, I would hate to take a $5,000 guitar out of it's case and ding it up, or have it stolen that is why I love cheap guitars, you don't have to care about them, and with a little TLC they can play as well as any expensive instrument.
Exactly why I can have a really nice guitar. Now if I actually played them it might be a different story... :D
Craig is "the Anti-Bon." His guitars never age! ;D ;D
I play every day, my most expensive guitar is a custom made Philip Petillo which cost me a grand many years ago. I hate it, so it sits in my shed unplayed for the most part, and I have 4 electric guitars in the house. I play one of them every day in rotation. I have 3-40+ minute sets of original music and I play one set every day in rotation, so I only play the same guitar against the same backing tracks every twelve practice days or so.
Hey guys. I've been on the road for a few weeks; so haven't had the laptop to check in.
As for buying a 'pre aged guitar' I'm with you guys. Who would bother. (Sorry Bon. "Son. You're on your own!!!")
Buuuuuuut; the pre aged ones in the shop look like absolute crap. I have a mate who bought a strat style cheapo with sections of bare wood painted on; and then it was all glossed over. Terrible.
BUUuuUuUUUuuuUuUuuUUUtttttttttt I was anerdy model maker as a kid. Never had sex until I was 43. I'm currently 37.
The thought of putting in the time to wear in a guitar PROPERLY so that you can't tell it was aged is part of the challenge. The bridge I bought looks fantastic. It looks normal; but just older; a little tarnisshed and the screws are rusty. Traces or rust on the face too.
This is what I'm talking about. Having a guitar that still looks good; but with genuine fake character.
Any of you have guitars with 'aged' white knobs etc (as opposed to 'normal' white) Why is that?? Hypocrits....
Any of you girls ever worn vinyl 'snakeskin or leopard skin etc shoes.???? Of course you have; can't make quality porn videos without them.... So don't be hypocrits.
Ever had your boyfriend fake an orgasm??? Of course you have. Stop being a hypocrit.
Do most of you fake or even tolerate being my friend and liking me??? Ditto. Stop being hypocrits.........
SRV's guitar doesn't look that great. It's just a guitar owned by someone with too much money and was too tight to buy a new one. That doesn't impress me. Let him get a brand new one; never do a gig; spend time and good money aging it so as o impress any new potential band mates by letting them assume you are not a 'gig virgin'
My mate bought a white American Strat off the net a year ago; thought it was mint; but it's got a few dings. That's the guitar I'd love to go to town on.
But then; seriously; you run into someone with a 20 year old tele or strat that has been their one guitar from day 1 (not 5 unmarked one like I've got) anfd has done a thousand gigs. Now that's cool.
But I'm never going to get to do a thousand gigs; so do i:
a) Age my guitar for the hell of it.
b) Don't age it because that would make me a wanker
c) Give up guitar all together. (Because struggeling to stay in a band due to my work situation is SHITTING me.. Seperate issue - I know. But I'm thinking of chucking it all in..... This aging the guitar was a month ago. Having said that; I HAVE just ordered mint pickguard/back ctrem cover for my American DeluxeOlympic White Strat. NOT to age it; but just give it a new look. It's got white 'pearl' one's on at the meoment.
I don't have any thing to offer to help you achieve your aged goal but I wanted you to know that this was one of the funniest posts I have read in quite a while. You sir, are one comedic individual. Thank you for starting my morning off in an enlightened way.
If we ever have a BatCave Laugh In similar to the BCS/WHS, I think you should be the Grand Marshal (Rowland or Martin).
Ever considered just buying a used guitar?
Whether you age it or not, you're still a Wanker... :D
