Anti-Relicing thread

[FL Knifemaker]

At least this time the subject has it's own thread and didn't start up in a good relic thread

 

[Korladis]

To me it's like paying more for 'distressed' pre-ripped jeans... I don't get it.

Seriously. Your jeans are supposed to get beat up as a result of long use.

 

[Webtroll]

usual TB rules apply.

Why? Relic haters think it's their TB given right to pewp on other's threads but on a thread dedicated to the hatred of other's opinions it's a no-no?

 

[Korladis]

I mean, everyone's free to do with their bass what they want, but I just don't get it.

I will admit that a road-worn jazz bass does look pretty cool (especially with the pickup cover), but beating it up intentionally seems silly to me.

 

[bgressman82]

Nobody I know with a tongue piercing has ever talked with a lisp. Also, those are reversible just by taking the jewelry out and leaving it out for a little while.

Relicing a bass is more like intentional scarring.

dude, you need to work on spotting when someone is joking.

 

[lobey]

BTW - I agree with the comments about boob jobs too, natural is where it's at!

amen!

 

[Illbay]

Do you consider relicing "fake mojo?"

I just consider it lame.

Are you bewildered by the idea of intentionally damaging a perfectly good instrument?

I see people with tatoos all the time, "ruining a perfectly good human body," so I guess not.

Do you put it in the same category as face lifts, boob jobs and Auto-Tune?

Tatooing.

If it is not your bass, why do you care?

"Having an opinion" doesn't take that much effort.

Since dissenting opinion is not appreciated in other threads on the subject, this is the place to vent.

For which I thank you. I hope we don't all get "warnings."

 

[FL Knifemaker]

Is anyone FORCED against their will to buy or play a CAR bass?? A 3 Tone T Burst?? Relicing is a finish, nothing more. I think 3T T burst and tort pickguards are ug........er.................. "not attractive" but I don't start a campaign against them.

 

[Korladis]

dude, you need to work on spotting when someone is joking.

I can tell, but some jokes are just plain dumb. And unfunny.

 

[Illbay]

At least this time the subject has it's own thread and didn't start up in a good relic thread

You said "good," then you said "relic."

That's like saying "jolly war."

 

[Rip Topaz]

To quote Adam Corolla, "If you can touch them, they're real"

 

[Illbay]

You can either scrap the whole take, and try again,...

Or you can sing that one phrase, and do a punch-in.

Did you think of that?

 

[Illbay]

Nobody I know with a tongue piercing has ever talked with a lisp.

Then you never met my daughter, back before she became a solid citizen and stopped all the adolescent silliness.

 

[rustynuts]

Do you consider relicing "fake mojo?"
Are you bewildered by the idea of intentionally damaging a perfectly good instrument?

I look at it as a different form of finishing an instrument. People who beat up an instrument seldom do a good job of relic'ing, but a nice relic job can look very good. Just like a hack paint job can look like ****, while someone who knows what they are doing can make a bass look amazing with a coat of paint.

 

[Jay Corwin]

Well I think relics are lame, and find it funny that a reliced Fender MIM costes so much. I'm a Fender guy - but taking a look at few "road worns" in my local music store was laughable. They hardly looked like a often played well worn instrument from with years on it. It was more like, look - some idiot took some sand paper and steel wool to a new jazz bass....then rusted up all the exposed metal parts. BOOOOOOOOOOOO relic jobs.

 

[cnltb]

Do you consider relicing "fake mojo?"
Are you bewildered by the idea of intentionally damaging a perfectly good instrument?
Do you put it in the same category as face lifts, boob jobs and Auto-Tune?
If it is not your bass, why do you care?

Since dissenting opinion is not appreciated in other threads on the subject, this is the place to vent.

Please refrain from attacking individuals and members' basses--usual TB rules apply.

1. No mojo at all.
Fake, yes.-
Why not spend some more time with the instrument and have it age on the way...and maybe even become a better player in the proces.
2. No. I just recon it might just be a way for companies to get rid of their "less than perfect instruments(?) .
3. Kind of.
4. I don't.

 

[Surly]

Wow this is like something totally new and never discussed before!! And quite interesting!!

 

[Korladis]

Especially the ones you don't "get"

No, I get it. It's just not funny. It's an unfunny joke about people with tongue piercings lisping. If they actually did, then it would be funny.

 

[GRISSLEHEAD]

I have a 71' Fender Jazz that I purchased in 71'......every ding,scratch,checkering,cigerette burn,tarnish etc.etc.etc. was done by me and 38 yrs.of touring,giging, harsh sunlight,bitter cold............yeh, it's roadworn naturally It's seen the best of times and the worst and has never failed me.It now rests comfortably in it's case in the closet. I have a bunch of sparkly new basses that will eventually end up the same way"Naturally".

 

[Sound Chaser]

So, I'm in one of my "guitar" classes at college. There's this guy who's a real poser, official grade A prime example. And he turns to the guy next to him, who's got a really beat up strat, and says: "Dude, that's awesome! How'd you get your guitar to look like that?" to which the guy with the strat replied, "Uh...I dunno man, I played it."

Making your instrument look old or like you actually play it as much as you should is possibly the single lamest thing you could ever do. And, I have NEVER been fooled by one of those lame "relic" jobs. They look terrible. An instrument that has been played for forty years is just going to have that look, and there's no other way to get it...unless you have no taste and can't tell the difference, that is. I will play Daisy Rock before I play a Fender Road Worn bass.