matthewr
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Andertons very much into the ‘heavy relic’ thing. I’m sorry, but I don’t get it, they just look so obviously fake to me, more like a guitar that’s been left outside in the garage for years or even dug out of landfill than one that has natural play-wear etc. I do very much like the idea of a light relic, just to remove that paranoia about dinging a shiny new guitar, but these don’t look real to me at all.
They do about three grades of light relicing with increasingly obtuse definitions. "Closet classic" is one that is old but has been played but kept in its case and looked after so wear but no dings. Then, bizarrely, there is one where it's been looked after "too well" and has wear associated with being polished every week for 20 years.
My other problem with the relicing is a lot of the real relicing is a function of a nitro finish. After the nuclear armageddon, all those cockroaches will still be playing their mint urethane finished strats