Relicing An Electric Guitar Neck (Session 2)
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at
4:22 pm
In this second session on relicing a guitar neck from TONESLINGER.COM, Cliff goes step by step to start the wear marks on the fretboard step by step
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What song is it around 4:08?
This is genius! Now we don’t even have to play the guitars anymore
no U can’t! U have to keep it shiny!!
You buy a guitar based on how it looks and sounds, right?
So do I. If I want to make it look older and awesome, i’m going to. Keep your shiny shit to yourself.
ha – that looks absolutely dreadful! Really fake looking… people that ‘relic’ stuff R trying to appear like they been playing a long time – LAME. Less BS more playing!
can you make the wear marks with a razor blade?????
i like your technique. let me question you, what would you figure a honest market value you would charge a customer, were you to do this as a side business?
Hence my disclaimer at the beginning of the video series.
I delight in doing this for fun. Would never do it to a really nice guitar.
thats a excellent question. If you need to clean any marks up that wont come off with just a damp cloth, then lighter fluid is the best cleaner for that.
it looks cool but its kind of cheating
Do you need to place the lighter fluid on if you dont mark the string spots im leaving the strings on and just marking the spots then
Especially with the new finishes they use now. Most people I know have ruined the guitar in the time it takes to get excellent wear. I’ve got a 7 year ancient Fender that looks as new as the day I bought it. I’ve got an ancient Yamaha acoustic that’s about 5 years older that has nice wear, but it took 10 years. I also play the Fender twice as much… They just don’t wear these days. LOL
these SX guitars are built pretty tough I guess. didn’t have any fret problems.
thats right.
yeah, for years, MANY years!
ehm another excellent way to relic a guitar neck is to play on it? x)
im suprised the frets dont pop out from all the oil and shit ya throw on the neck (goof off ) shoe polish , stain…shit
I spent a lot time using a heat gun trying to crack a poly end to see if it was possible with no luck. I even froze the end with free spray first and still no luck. My understanding is you cant really check a poly end with this technique, but the nitro cellulouse finishes do respond well to a heat gun.
Heat guns are the trick to cracking poly end. The only problem is that the end cracks in large chunks. I recently read that somewhere when trying to figure out how to relic my Tele. Don’t know if its useful information but I thought I’d throw it out there…
to relic you could try to simply lend your guitars to very abusive players when you’re not using them, maybe some punk kids or crappy music studios
umm if u dont have a end on your neck u can still do this right
Apparently it started out as an australian product and was bought by an american company called Sara Lee in 1984.
excellent ancient kiwi brown , is that a New Zealand product
You know, I really tried that one time and it was extremely messy and didn’t work out too excellent. I also tried colored powdered chalk with the same result.
Hmm Im not really into relicing myself but I reckon a better way to get the marks for the fingerboard wear would be to leave the strings on and play the guitar for a while with graphite on the ends of your fingers so it would leave realistic marks because it would be how you really play. then you can just dremel in the marks.