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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Ok - poor choice of language on my part I guess. Believe it or not I was trying to be positive about relicing!
It's difficult to not let your own opinion seep in though. As I said each to their own and it is great that people can make money from the industry.
My own dislike of relicing is as valid as the next guys love of it though.
I don't buy the whole they feel better to play argument either. If that was the case you could just take finish off the neck and not go the whole hog with dents and fag burns!
It's a whole look that people usually want to create and that's fine.
Everyday is a school day!
A good job we are all different.
I'd happily swap any of my nicotine stained fenders, for mint condition or good condition versions of the same guitars - for the same years and models, some of them are that heavily nicotine stained that you can barely make out the Fender logos on them, not to mention the wood burn damage, I have a 2010 model thats headstock looks about 70 years old due to the nicotine staining, and that's before you get to the smell of the headstock.
DaLefty
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
For amateur/hobbyists we have people advertising in our practice rooms - rooms that we rent out to teachers for teaching, or local bands so that they can rehearse, for anythng from £30.00 to about £100.00, these tend to be people who are doing it cash in hand and not as their main source of income.
We have companies advertising prices starting from £150.00, these are companies that specialise on refinishing or finishing wood in general, they don't specialise in guitars but will work on just about anything that is made of wood.
The person I use for jobs that I can't do myself doesn't do relicing per say, she does distressed finishes, and her prices start at the £300.00 mark for a guitar body, and that's for a relatively simple and plain finish, something intricate and detailed will cost a lot more, especially making a guitar look naturally distressed because the person doing the finish has to have an understanding of how the instrument will wear naturally over time, for example a Tele will wear differently from a Strat, which will wear differently from a Les Paul, which will wear differently from an SG. I've known her to charge upwards of £1000.00 for some of her work on guitar bodies, but she is a full time artist, and doesn't just work on guitars, she paints, and does other arty stuff aswell.
DaLefty
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Thanks for that buddy, kind of a rough idea at very least!
I don't like les Paul's, I don't like metal guitars, I don't comment on threads of guitars I don't like...because it's doesn't matter if I don't like it or its finish...it's not my guitar and who cares what I think?
I don't get the hatred of them...I dislike a lot of guitars but wouldn't get my cock In a twist about it....you don't have to have one!
I don't have a relic guitar.
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I smoke, have never needed to put a cig there...I'm not a rolling stone/yardbird etc so never needed to smoke and finish a song in front of 15,000 people...
Manchester based original indie band Random White:
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And I've now guit smoking, so I no longer use my headstock to hold smokes for me, I stopped doing that almost two years ago now. Not to mention if you read my post you'll see I mention how much I regret using the low e and my headstock to hold my smoke for me.
DaLefty