Fender Road Worn Series

[Sarge]

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/navigation?q=Fender+Road+Worn&st=

http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/4/0/9/575409.jpg

I like relics and have a few Custom shop models
(Rory Gallagher Strat and Nocaster)
I like the idea of a decent priced relic, but I would pass on one of these over a used MIA Fender model.


DISCUSS?!?!?!?

[Matt White]

Dig the 50's model.....always a sucker for a maple fretboard

http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/6/1/8/575618.jpg

[Sarge]

Rather pricey at 950.00

http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/1/7/2/580172.jpg

[jhale667]

Dig the 50's model.....always a sucker for a maple fretboard

http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/6/1/8/575618.jpg

I like that one, too...there's a thread going about these at the Seymour Duncan forum, and when someone brought up relic'ing your OWN instrument, someone posted "It's more authentic when you get it from them."

To which I replied "How is it any less authentic if I kick the body down a flight of stairs like they were going to anyway...?" :lol:

The scuttlebutt is the relic patterns are nearly identical (like say, if you looked at two of the example above), so what's the point...

[Coyote]

"Road worn" straight from the factory?

No thanks.

[GAR]

What they do is scrape down the paint in certain areas of body contact with glass microscope slides, fine sandpaper or razor blades then polish the damage out with the big buffer wheel.

It doesn't feel bad, you'd like it. It's a broken-in comfort thing.

[Coyote]

Factory-made "cool" (or "mojo") isn't my thing.

Besides, ain't too many road stories attached to those...

[jackassrock]

No shit. I relic my guitars myself. On the road, with sweat and friction.

[Sarge]

The more I look.. the more I want to pass...

[GAR]

The Highway 1 Strats are the same neck, body and hardware but with a water-based lacquer they don't have to buff.

That's my favorite, it's the best value in the whole lineup. I'd like to get a classic tobacco sunburst alder body, maple/maple neck, then start scraping away at the satin finish: I'd peel that shit down to the sunburst airbrushing level then spray clear nitro lacquer like Valco or Deft Water Clear lacquer and buff it out real thin.

Then I'd fuck it up even more personal with no pickguard, rear mount one volume like Pete Townshend behind the bridge, mount a Floyd, one of my Duosonic pickups in the neck position and a humbucker in the bridge.

Of all the strats I have I don't think one is a real Fender.

[ELVIS]

I have 3 "real" Fenders out of my large collection...

But i'd rather beat one up myself rather than a fake old guitar...


:elvis:

[GAR]

That takes too long, plus some people who have no time to learn how to play would rather pay the money to look like they've played it forever - thus a market for such a thing!

[ELVIS]

Here's (http://www.fender.com/yngwie/english/) the coolest worn Strat replica...

http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/0/1/9/579019.jpg


:elvis:

[ELVIS]

http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/0/1/6/579016.jpg


:elvis:

[rustoffa]

Gibbo puts the water base lacquer on LP Studios' & Juniors. Toss 'em outside on a sub-freezing night or into a freezer for awhile. After awhile is over, toss either or in front of a raging fire or kerosene construction heater....make sure you loosen or remove the strings first. It'll spider web bigtime (the lacquer). When people ask about the cracked finish later on, just tell 'em that Ed Roman used to own it.