What do you guys think of Relics? Sometimes I think they look pretty cool, but most of the time I think they look manky and like I wouldn't want to touch the things.
Not only that but the majority just reek of artificialness. Take for example
Steve Vai's Evo, that is a legit relic yes? Imagine how many hours and how many shows have been played on that guitar, yet it still looks reasonable (IMHO) for the amount of time it's been played, cool. Then you get a guitar like the EVH Frankenstrat clones that look like absolute garbage, but even if it weren't for the fact that it's a
custom shop guitar, you just know that somebody has sat down and thought "Right well we'll just chip it here, then sand it there.."
(Maybe a bad example actually because EVH's was actually played into that condition but you catch my drift hopefully.)
I'm not knocking the effort that goes into doing these things (and Ibanezcollector's thread has no baring on this one BTW, just coincedence.)
So what do you guys think of them?
