Official Luthiers Forum!

Yeah I never really got it. I look at as someone wanting to have their guitar look like they played it for twenty years straight without actually having to do the hard work. Me personally I try to take care of the guitars I own and can say some of them have their nicks and bruises but none of them look as worn as some of these relic guitars. My twenty plus year old well played flame top Les Paul still has it factory sheen since I did my best to take care of it. Now for Stevie Ray Vaughn's guitar it looked this way because this man probably put 75 years of use on it in the short time he was around. If you want a relic guitar go earn it and play it to death....Mike