Running Time 1 Hr. & 14 Min.

Finding an affordable vintage guitar is a near impossibility. Every now and then you hear a story of someone walking into a pawnshop or garage sale and finding that one stellar guitar: the guitar whose battle scars could tell a thousand stories. In this tutorial, guitar luthier Steve Soest will walk you through the steps that will transform your guitar from an ordinary axe into a relic-ed masterpiece. Steve will show you how to etch, stain, create dings, bumps, rust, cracks, and even cigarette burns that will result in your guitar catching the "vibe" of a vintage guitar.

• Relicing The Metal
• Relicing A Solid Wood Guitar Body
• Identifying Wear Patterns
• Techniques for Paint Checking
• Creating Stress and Wear Patterning
• Aging the Plastic
• Decal Application
• Wood Staining
• Bumps, Dings and Wear
• Rusting

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