"Relic" instruments...

[Rob Sharer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdChXIO0WtM


Watch at about the 4:45 mark. Careful what you wish for!



Rob

[Nanohedron]

Merkinz an' their gunz. Tisk.

[Tim2723]

Yup. Some will buy anything if you wrap it in enough hype. I must have missed it: Someone tell me why they have to use Gibson necks? If they're such brilliant luthiers, why don't they just make guitars?

[Nanohedron]

I knew there was something nagging at the back of my mind about that...

[Walden]

I think it's in the interest of "authenticity." A lot of musicians these days seem to see themselves as reenactors. They dress the part and an old-looking instrument adds to their costume.

Brewerpaul, I ran across your name on a bones percussion site. Do you ever make any wooden bones?

[Rob Sharer]

Real Gibson neck = real serial #.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of folks making EXACT replica '50s-style Les Pauls, relic-ed or clean. Here's a ridiculously detailed, pictorial thread about that from another forum:

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showth ... p?t=859139



Rob

[crookedtune]

Not to be contrary.....but I recently picked up a new Washburn R319SWKK "vintage repro" parlour guitar for the ridiculously low price of $399. It's solid wood, well-crafted, looks and sounds great. A wonderful guitar for acoustic blues fingerpicking, which is what I bought it for.

I personally love the "worn" look in instruments, just as I do in fine hand-crafted furniture. And though it might not be fashionable to say it, there are some fantastic and affordable instruments coming out of Asia and the Pacific Rim these days. My Gibsons and Martins are long gone.

http://www.washburn.com/acoustics/vinta ... /#r320swrk

[brewerpaul]

I think it's in the interest of "authenticity." A lot of musicians these days seem to see themselves as reenactors. They dress the part and an old-looking instrument adds to their costume.

Brewerpaul, I ran across your name on a bones percussion site. Do you ever make any wooden bones?

Just one set for myself. Birdseye maple. Pretty, but they've disappeared over the years