Reliced?

[Gary Blanchard]

I'd say more like wrecked:

Joe Strummer Model Fender Telecaster Relic w/ HSC, artwork

$750.00. If it weren't a "relic" it wouldn't sell for $30.00.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

you should be able to find one in your nearest Guitar Center. it doesn't really look reliced. it looks like a bad, fake paint job. they're weird.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

I've passed up better looking guitars at the Goodwill store.

 

[Sad Navigator]

you should be able to find one in your nearest Guitar Center. it doesn't really look reliced. it looks like a bad, fake paint job. they're weird.

Yeah. They look really phony. I don't get why they would make these. It's a very niche market who's gonna be a committed Strummerphile and be the sort of person who'll wanna own a rather expensive souvenir like this. Considering Joe's own tele was a standard-issue tele beat to hell, refinished with god knows what god knows how many times, and covered in stickers and whathaveyou... You'd be more Strummer-esque buying a Xaviere tele and modding/abusing it for 30-odd years.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Yeah. They look really phony. I don't get why they would make these. It's a very niche market who's gonna be a committed Strummerphile and be the sort of person who'll wanna own a rather expensive souvenir like this. Considering Joe's own tele was a standard-issue tele beat to hell, refinished with god knows what god knows how many times, and covered in stickers and whathaveyou... You'd be more Strummer-esque buying a Xaviere tele and modding/abusing it for 30-odd years.

i think it's there to make the Highway One, Roadworn, and the higher priced relics look better. set the bar low so that people buy the other stuff that only fake looking when you really examine it. oh hai Flamencology.

 

[cfgsteak]

I LOVE Joe Strummer. I mean, I LOVE the guy. I am a huge Clash fan.

I would not own one of those and I find their existance abhorrent.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

I'm holding out for the Martin Relic "trigger" guitar.

 

[jaxn slim]

The relic-ing looks almost like tie-dye. I'd expect you to dig that, Gary.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

The relic-ing looks almost like tie-dye. I'd expect you to dig that, Gary.

That would be some of the worst tie-dye I've ever seen. :rolleyes:

We hippies have standards. Low ones, maybe, but we've got them.

 

[Denverdave]

I would not own one of those and I find their existance abhorrent.

As would Joe Strummer. However, his estate chose income over ethics.....

 

[Prages]

I have to admit that there's a 'relic' in a local shop that kind of has me wanting it.



It's a Japanese Fernandes. It costs $250.

If I got it, it would probably be sanded and refinished before anybody here knew I'd bought it.

 

[Kerouac]

Terrible finish, but the neck feels really good.

 

[Jbird]

My 2001 Dodge Stratus is 'Road Worn'....it should be worth more money then, aye?

 

[cfgsteak]

As would Joe Strummer. However, his estate chose income over ethics.....

Indeed. There is nothing less punk rawk then owning a Joe Strummer imitation guitar.

 

[GergS]

Local guitar store has one of those. It does play nice but geez...that has "I'm a tool" written all over it.

 

[Kerouac]

Indeed. There is nothing less punk rawk then owning a Joe Strummer imitation guitar.

Owning the Avril Lavigne sig guitar?

 

[cfgsteak]

Owning the Avril Lavigne sig guitar?

That would still be more punk rawk...you could at least claim irony.

 

[Sad Navigator]

Owning the Avril Lavigne sig guitar?

It looks cooler. Also, it's a bridge-bucker plank so it's got utilitarian minimalism going for it.

Though honestly, if I were gonna do a single pickup guitar, I think I'd rather have a neck pickup.

 

[Kerouac]

It looks cooler. Also, it's a bridge-bucker plank so it's got utilitarian minimalism going for it.

Though honestly, if I were gonna do a single pickup guitar, I think I'd rather have a neck pickup.

Just get an Esquire.

 

[John Watt]

This is more than just a road-worn reply. I just clicked the function here so I could log in. The way this computer looks the Mark Wein logo covers the home page log-in functions. So this input is slightly userous, which certainly fits the theme of building "tribute" and "road-worn" guitars.

I like Willie Nelson, playing his songs and getting into some nice leads. And while I still wonder why Jimi Hendrix never got a lefty going, some serious wonderment, I wonder about Willie's guitar strap every time I see it. And we're talking about some seriously worn instruments.

as always, John Watt