I like how the dude slaps the rock around like he's doing some kind of badass wrist flick technique that only he can do 😂

"So, what do you do for a living?" "I f*#k up new guitars..."

Guitar looks pretty beat. I'd pay $100 for it.

When I first opened my cabinet shop in 2005, "distressing" was the rage for cabinetry

That’s a spike not a tie city boy

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Looks cool , but has anyone ever bought a brand new car and said I need to relic it 🤣 . Great work guys

A railroad tie is a huge 102" long piece of creosote soaked wood. You relic guitars with that? OR you don't even know the difference between a Railroad tie and a spike?

Imagine being 14 yrs old with a new 1973 Gibson EB3 Bass with Cherry Finish, and you leave it in the trunk of a friends car after a gig, overnight in the fall. You bring it inside and to your horror, the finish begins to crack all over. The Bass still sounds great, but I will never for get my unplanned experience with a ruined finish.

This is the best job in the world!!!

For the lacquer checking you can get a can of the spray air for blowing dust out of electronics. Take the can and turn it upside down and spray the quitar finish and it will do the same thing except it does it right away instead of waiting days. If you do it with the spray air then it only effects the fish without the possibility of the different woods shrinking on the neck. There way could cause issues with the fretboard later.

Technically that’s a railroad spike….. not a tie.

Amazing! I think it works better when you do the opposite: heat it up and then to the freezer. I think it a chemical thing when the finish goes with the heat and dilates and the the sudden cold crack it. I did mine that way, I left it like an hour in the killer summer sun of S.Florida and then straight to the freezer! Perfect in one take! Coffee or shoe polish for plastics, put all the hardware in a little bag with rocks and shake it babe! Also etchant solution takes the shine away but it needs a little more of "expertise". Nice video!

Wow, I can't imagine the years of study and practice it took to be able to scratch and dent new guitars to such perfection!!!🙂😁🤣🥳 P.S. And "if you listen very hard" (Stairway to... by LZ) @ 0:50 the guy does say "railroad spike" not railroad tie!

Pine is super soft so I doubt they could actually offer a “brand new” scratchless guitar. Thing would be dinged up before it left the factory

Love it.

I have a 3lbs burlap sack of nuts and bolts I use for the buckle rash area. I'll take some black stain thinned out. While it's damp,....I'll drop it from about 3ft. It turns out so good.

That is a spike. A tie is a very large piece of wood.

I’ll never understand why someone wants buy a fucked up guitar !

Levi first created Relic Jeans in 1973. The rest is history. Now, I have my Tailor Relic my suits. He makes cuts & tears and uses rocks and such to put gouges and punctures in my $3000 Brioni Suits. It's just the coolest thing going to meetings with Tattered Suits. 😂

Rolling the fretboard edges is a form or relicing... making it feel more played in. People don't get upset about that.

My friggin' ex-girlfriend did this to my guitar without me asking!

I feel like an old man saying this, but I'd definitely wear eye protection when beating the finish with a rock or spike. But, I think I'm prone to getting crap in my eyes.

No disrespect to Novo, or any other brand that does this, but I thinks it's dumb. What do I know though? Apparently these things sell like hot cakes.

Famously, George Lynch from Dokken had his original tiger stripe guitar made for him, and then they immediately flew to Germany, and when they arrived it was completely checked. I love relics, and the freezer method seems to be a WAY better idea than sitting there with a razor blade!

I don't mind both reliced and brand new guitars...as long as it sounds great, I'm going to play it. But I've always found the relicing-process kind of painful to watch

Are they a old enough company to even have real relics?

Pet Symmetry's t-shirt is the best part of this video!

Only guitar players like this nonsense. Nobody else wants to buy something pre-damaged. "Yeah, these couches are great but that one with that worn-out one over there?? The one with the color rubbed off the armrest?? THAT'S the one I want!. It's got the MOJO, darn it all to heck!!!!"

Yeaaaahhh that’s a no from me

jUsT rELiC iT tHe oLD faSHiONeD wAy bY PLaYiN’ iT-every boomer guitar know-it-all

I’ve owned a few reliced guitars in the past, but it felt just wrong. But each to their own.

I’m just here to read all the relic hate. 😂

Almost like car guys. "well my car has this, this, this, and this option and no other Metallic Red 1988 Chevy Monte Carlo has the same options so I have a 1 of 1 car! It's rare!" All because they got an option or two that nobody else got, like no spare tire or downgraded transmission or something ridiculous 🤣 😉👌 Those really are nice guitars!

I built a few guitars a while back, and the last thing I would ever want to see would be someone destroying a guitar finish like this. I always believed you had to earn your own mojo, so does a guitar, so does a pair of blue jeans. This is like jeans with holes in the knees, marketed to posers.

Pine guitars need pre-relicling? What? really?

thats one way to do it I guess lol

Relics have ruined the fun of real vintage guitars.

The get the guy who doesn't like relic guitars to do this lol

But i dont get it so you take out the protection by scrathing the lacker so the Wood can Root fantastic.

I’m sorry normally I’d just move on but I have to… as a former railroader Conductor the spike Is NOT a tie… a tie Is an entire log of wood or concrete that lays across underneath the rail. The spike Is just that. A spike…

I am one person's opinion.

Not a railroad tie, spike or nail.

If they are trying to add belt buckle rash - why don't they use a belt buckle? And freezing those necks can't be good in the long-term.

Waste of time

My main objection to this fad is that it devalues the real road warrior instruments. My first thought when I see a worn guitar these days is that it's yet another fake.

Aaaaand here comes the parade of clowns commenting on how stupid they think reliced guitars are.

Watch him carefully, he's about to do a stupid shit

I dunno, man. I think relics are kinda lame. When you haven’t put the miles on an instrument yourself? That’s kind of like being a poser. I’d rather beat up my guitar at practice and gigs than pay somebody to hit with a rock lol

Close the freezer please !!!!!! The planet 🌎

Stolen valor.

Sorry, but I can't stand fake "relic'd" guitars. I'll never buy one.

Wierd that someone who hates relic guitars is doing this interview! lol

Honestly this was painful to watch. Real relic guitars have a story, feel and a character. Yes it's a long process to happen to your guitar especially if you're only playing at home or occasionally jamming with friends, in that case it's better to buy a real relic guitar. You can easily find a good relic guitar for the price of a brand new Novo. Not that Novo guitars ain't great but this brand new relic'd thing is just a poser thing.

Pine? He keeps saying pine. Who the f*ck builds guitars out of pine? When did that become a tone wood?

Buyer: My wife's gonna freak if I spend 7k on a guitar. Novo: Dont worry we relic our guitars, she will never know.

OMG, these guys are geeks...I do not like this.

Typical boomer Relic opinion ..

Terrible background music! Annoying!

Incoming comments comparing them to ripped jeans and destroyed cars. ...old people, old opinions. I think relicing looks amazing

Almost like car guys. "well my car has this, this, this, and this option and no other Metallic Red 1988 Chevy Monte Carlo has the same options so I have a 1 of 1 car! It's rare!" All because they got an option or two that nobody else got, like no spare tire or downgraded transmission or something ridiculous 🤣 😉👌 Those really are nice guitars!