I have a Nash S-63 and it is amazing. It's a heavy relic blue over white with painted headstock. I love it. It feels awesome and plays and sounds great

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About a year ago I ran into Paul Smith himself and asked him if he would do a private stock run of relics. It was a hard no. Haha. Crazy but true story.

I know some people love these relic things, I just cannot wrap my head around it.

my special just-won-the-lottery “troll relic” is a fender custom shop with _squire_ badges (so early 80s strat) that was refin’d using thick (brush applied) house paint enamel in gloss white, heavy relic’d, had a floyd rose trem and routing for humbuckers installed, then _removed_ then lightly set on fire, had the neck replaced with the wrong model (another squire), then refinished perfectly in some high-early-2000s colour finish, heavy relic’d, original squire pickups put in.

My MJT I got completely custom for $1500 w a case 6 years ago. Best guitar I’ve ever owned

My knees are reliced from 30 years of playing football! Lol. As for reliced guitars I prefer the very lightly aged ones, they don’t look brand new, but it’s not gonna break your heart if you accidentally put a few dings in it in the first year or two.

It takes time to learn how to do this. That's why its a skill that pays so much. I think vintage part's and a relic is cool.

I’ve had the same strat for 20 years. It has a poly finish, so it ages weird. Some of the pick guard screws are rusty, noticeable fret wear, and some chips out of the finish on the body, but from across the room looks brand new I’ve seen some hate online for people who have a relic’d guitar that has a poly finish, claiming it’s not real wear. Guitarists can be so shallow sometimes. Or maybe they aren’t really guitarists spreading all the hate online. Go play your dang guitar!

Historic Makeovers does the best Les Paul relicing I've seen. You can buy another R7/R8 for what they charge, but they look amazing. The work they do adds a premium to a guitar too. Most of the time you lose money when you beat up a guitar.

"Dead or alive, you're coming with me."

Dan Strain of Danocaster.. did an amazing job on my 56 Murphy Lab Light Aged Les Paul… killer! He was awesome to deal with .. can’t recommend him highly enough… and I’m all the way over in Australia

MJT, Guitar Mill, Starr Guitars, Bloomdoom are my favorites for partscaster piece finishes. How good the guitar itself ends up depends on the quality of the other parts and the skill of the assembler/tech. Even pros like Glaser will do the hard part for you. I like it when they are just a tiny bit reliced. They don't look factory new, they will wear with play, and you won't cry if you ding them.

I once played an MJT ash body Strat ..light relic.. that was every bit as good as a custom shop B-Strings Winston Salem build great versions of Fender kit

I have a 10 top DGT. Hmmm 🤔 Shall we pull that trigger?

Love it

I play my silver sky.. a lot. The bridge already has rust on it and the neck went from satin to gloss.

Mjt is killer. Im sending my explorer out for a refin soon

Haar Guitars in the netherlands makes really authentic looking relics. Not over done, so amazing.

100% on the Fiore. I love mine.

I think regarding the PRS relic thing, for me anyway, Fender/Gibson or for similar style guitars (Dano, Nash ect) there are proper old vintage examples from the 50's and 60's with real wear and checking. These vintage guitars pretty much started the whole relic culture in the first place due to the vintage ones being unobtainable for most people. The oldest original PRS's would have been poly for many many years, as well as being really beauitful and expensive guitars, so I doubt there is many old PRS's with any level of actual wear because of that. As such it feels a bit wrong to do one with wear falsely because its unlikely it would have happened. That's my feeling anyway.

You guys need a special run of PRS relics. Ha!

I have a RS Guitarworks Tele and love it. Several of my buddies love playing it, but swear they would never buy one.

I have a 2009 yuri shishkov 1960 Shell Pink Strat which feels great

I have a new 335 that was a gift. I love the guitar but it’s just too perfect. I’d love to get a light relic on this guitar.

relic a PRS --this feels like something that would blow up you channel views :D Go for it. It's your guitar, do what you want with it.

Interesting, I knew there were aftermarket relicers? But didn’t know some boutique brands like nash did it as well

From worst to best: Fender heavy relic - Gibson Murphy Lab. Not really a relic fan, but my main guitar is a black Maybach. You can’t see the relic a foot away, though.

Nacho and danocaster are probably the best relic jobs I can think of. Murphy lab does a decent job too. My problem with fender is how the relic the necks. 95% of the time, it basically just a 3m pad to the bad of the neck.

Nash's relics are over the top. They look like a caricature of an old guitar.

Historic makeovers in Fla. Best Les Paul total rebuild. Better than Murphy Lab by a long shot!

I'm sending one of these people my Subaru. Anybody remember the PRS Dragon from the 90's? Now there would be a relic.

To me, artificial relicing is disingenuous. I have a '70 mustang bass that is naturally reliced and the 54 year old finish checking looks awesome. Thanks for the content guys

I was very sad when I put the fisrt ding on my Les Paul. The schaller strap lock, from the strap, hit the body and now there is an annoying dent. But eventually I'll wear away the finish in some places just from playing and that's fine. But I'll still probably really cringe every time I see that ding.

And then there’s the natural style DIY relic for nitro finishes. @dylantalkstone did an episode where he left a guitar in his car overnight in the cold. Bring it inside and open it up. Finish checking galore.

How do you resell these later, by valuating them? How do you evaluate something that's been torn up like that? You can't go by conditions.

couple things I’m 3/4 away through and you guys have not mentioned Historic Makeovers which makes me feel really bad for Kim who runs it. He was doing the absolute best Les Paul relicsfor years before murphy lab existed. I have three of them they’re among the best guitars I own and I have a Murphy labs r54 gt and his are just as good if not better because he relics every piece subtly-even the plastics unlike Murphy lab that just sticks off the rack knobs, which always shocked me you have to go to 59 parts to put proper relic knobs on a Murphy lab that’s heavy aged?! and its not better than kims stuff. Also, I live near Lark Guitar in Santonio and a couple years ago high up on the wall they had a relict, super high-end 594 mccarty- was pretty cool. I played it for a minute it had a weird kind of “this isn’t supposed to exist” vibe about it but it was cool and somebody paid big bucks for it so I don’t know how they got paul to do it? maybe Lark has more mojo than you guys lol i was just keeeding. love u guys and love relics! but I hope by the end of this video you have mentioned Kim at Historic Makeovers in Florida. I will not proceed to continue the video. Fingers crossed.

I have a relic Kauer Banshee that was finished by Partsocaster. Love the color and the parts choices, but the relic job isn’t so great. They started by doing a terrible initial paint job, then over aging the parts. I guess they figured the relic would obscure the amateurish paint job, but it obviously started with massive orange peel and they didn’t bother to scrape a clean line on the binding. I love the guitar in spite of that. The Factory finishes by Kauer are stellar, so I imagine Doug Kauer was less than thrilled by the work he subbed out to Partsocaster.

Get one reliced and then restored back to original

Paying for "Relicing" is insane. I have known guitar players from down the street to legends. It is true. I have never meet anyone willing that has payed for an instrument or amp to be reliced. It makes as much sense as buying a new car and having somone else money to FUCK it up.

Just play them. My 8 years of playing my Gibson Les Paul Traditional has turned it into a light aged Murphy Lab. More satisfying that way or buy vintage

I’m a guitar and gun guy, to me earning your “relic” is part of the fun in ownership, I’ve had the same AR lower for 12 years, and same Sheraton 2 for 14. Both are well worn, they look well used. I love it. I’ve put the work in

Try shopping for a Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster that doesn't look like it was dragged behind a truck. It would be nice to have more less-worn options. ...and before you reply, have a look for yourself. The market is over-saturated with HEAVY relics. There are a lot fewer options for NOS or even Closet Classic.

My gear's all relic'd for free by my dogs.

Is there a company out there that could paint my ugly brown Gibson Faded T? Would love to see it as a gold top

What is the actual past tense of relic?

Guys could you relic a Magnatone stack and maybe a Gibson custom shop....... whatever?...🎸🎸

I had a core prs that was beat to piss . The fan boys hated it

Relic prs is kinda like going into the future. Nvr see any

Paul would never send y’all another guitar. But it would be cool.

Buy a Murphy Lab Les Paul new then send it around to Dan Danocaster, then to Mark at MJT, and lastly to Bill Nash. Let each of them take a little wack at it. JK. ; )

NachoGuitars for Fender style relics. Historic Makeovers for Gibsons. Case closed.

I can’t fake it.. You play it and you play it and play the hell out of it 🤘🏻🎸🤘🏻 I have 2 strats that are so road worn from gigging and dropped because of strap breaking and just on the road and practice and to me no one can give you that ..some things not even money can give you! Because my guitars that are well road worn come with plenty of stories!

Not sure if they mentioned it, but allegedly Keith Richards started this trend when he got some new guitars from FCS and asked them to "bash them up a bit".

I have to stop taking my youngest daughter to guitar shops because she yells at me if I don’t buy a custom shop relic or vintage guitar every time. She did buy one for me once. And then there is her older sister that I’ve been to NC with a couple times to visit my mom and wouldn’t let me detour to visit your shop.

I have a VOS R8 les paul custom. Thats about as much "relicing" as I can take.

The best relic artist is Vince Vantright from fender custom shop. Nobody else even comes close.

I'd have like 10 !!! best comment ever

I understand the idea and practicality of having your guitar relicit, but I prefer to put my own natural battle scars on my guitars. Gotta earn it. But I totally understand the option 🙂

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Relic’ Art Guitares in France does amazing stuff. One could say it’s Art. I also love how Yaniv from Bunting Guitars does his relics. For those of us with OCD it really helps to already have the guitar beat up. I won’t even play a guitar if it’s not dinged. It’s a disease.

Send it to Kevin Heffernan.

Imagine wanting to buy anything else that has been relic'd . How about a house that has been pretty much beaten up and bashed in. Or you go out look for that beautiful new expensive Mercedes but get the one that's got the dents and scratches all over it just like it looks like you've been driving it for a while😂😂😂

"who should beat up your guitar?" You. End of video.

I want to start seeing polyurethane relics

MJT guitars does the best relics. look waaaay better than fender customs hop.

Did artificially relic'd guitars exist before the internet? Is this a chicken and egg questions lol ? I mean, I have a 1978 thru neck Ibanez Musician I've been playing since 1981 and that's so relic'd now, I'm amazed the British Museum hasn't stolen it lol. Anyway, if you like the new trend for relics or not, it's no big deal. Rumour has it that Gibson and Fender QC deliberately allows accidental relics to fly past them and into customers hands, with "factory relic'd" finishes as a free bonus 😂

Personally, I don't like fakes. A guitar deserves to be played and to mature over time, with use. That's real mojo.

Nash’s relics are not realistic at all and he uses cheap parts for the price you can get a fender

Taylor Swift PSYOP plant ?

To me relics mean two things: ease of mind playing as dings etc are irrelevant and it should have a great worn in neck

I dig the end product, but what I dislike is the way its presented... I feel like they try and diminish what's special about vintage instruments and assert it's nothing more than specs that can be remade and wear that can be replicated. I'm old enough to remember a world before all this when if you saw a guitar that beat up the hair on the back of your neck would stand up cuz you knew it must be special to have been played that much.... now a guitar like that goes unnoticed because it's lost in a sea of imitations... the whole look has just become white noise... like a song you loved at first until it got played on the radio so much that now you can't stand it.

I feel like the complete COMPLETE purpose of this video is to "poke the bear" a little. And excite that large portion of your audience whom are obviously triggered by this subject,.LoL AND IM HERE 4 IT! People are like "buy. anew guitar,.. and relic it yourself",.not realizing that most instruments have been poly finished since the late 1960/s ( Fender started Poly around 68 ). So NOOOOO,.you wont be making your NEW instrument look like a Murphy Lab unless it happened to be Nitro ( Gibson does still do this, btw). Other then that,..a Pre-CBS strat in your hands mean you'll have to sell your Corvette. And buying actual vintage "burst" means you'll have to sell your wife ( unless she's fat) in which case you'll have to sell your house.

Midnight y'all?

Some custom shop relics look like they had acid thrown on them and then they were left out in the weather for a month. Doesn't appeal to me.

I am not a fan of artificial relic guitars. If the guitar has had a long useful life it can display its wear with pride. Buying a new guitar that has been “reliced” to me is fake. But to each their own….

I got a better idea. How about buy the guitar, tweak it the way you want then play it a lot for many years. Then you’ll have a “real” relic guitar, one with all your hard work, screw ups and vibe that you created. Then you can look back at all those chips, scratches, cigarette burn marks that look pretty cool now but remember how pissed you were when you did them. Just remember why you wanted to play guitar in the first place, make music.

The people whom HATE relics are usually folks who remember when "classic rock" was NEW rock,..

These guys never stop talking about fender custom shop relics... which they sell for 10k plus.. 😂 don't trust their opinions.

I wonder if the haters of this guitar finish technique/style find themselves in a building where an aging technique has been applied to a wall, floor, cabinetry etc make a scene explaining... "THAT wall is not 300 years old!!!!!!! Let your walls age naturally!!!!....I hate your wall....I'm leaving!!!!!"....bwahaaaa...

Liars lie!! Relics are for posers. Sound comes from the player a good guitar has nothing to do with finish!!

I’ll just say it. That Silver Sky relic looked horrible.

I don't trust your guys amp opinions anymore. You guys said the Champion 50 was better than the Mustang LT 25... Nothing cold be further from the truth. The LT25 has 10000X better sound than a Champion 50.

I have seen about 10-12 professionally "Reliced" guitars. It looks phony & I do not think, inproves tone, etc. I have never seen a guitar player, that plays the arena or stadium venues with a pro reliced guitar.

Unpopular opinion in these circles i know, but I still think relic'd guitars are fucking lame.

Derrick! Quit with the autofocus.

Absolutely useless/pointless having those two bottles in the back on the amp. What is the message?

I dont like any fake mojo. Im not mad that people do this. I just dont get into it.

Relics are so dumb ! There is no magic powers in old guitars ! Suhr , and PRS built the Best Guitars 🎸 gibsons are still built with the same mistakes and horrible fret work ! So are Fenders !

Guys. Both of you are really good guitar players. How is it, that between the two of you, you have managed to create such a great channel, filled with such great content, yet it begins with the lamest intro music of all time. Fix it.

I do a fine job at beating up my own guitar! 🤣😂😁🥲😭