Bang It Up!

I know a very well known guitar player who once told me that belt buckle rash on a 'relic' doesn't count...er... 'cause it's a relic? Right? If you drop your relic guitar, it only get's more reliced! Not true... very good #1 Fender store/ dealer of mine just informed me that he checks for this type of thing, especially for those Neiman-Marcus situations... you know... the girl who goes into the department store, buys a $2000 dress... wears it with the tag hidden to a party... then returns it a week later... for a full refund. Well... guitar dealers are not that dumb. There is apparently a difference between those professional bumps put in by masterbuilders... and they always do it in a certain overall-but-hard-to-explain pattern... like an artwork.. and someone who gets a little drunk at a gig, wails on his guitar, turns around and .... walks his headstock right into a stack of Marshalls... Someone who spills paint on a Jackson Pollock might think one more drip on a drip painting will not be detectable... BUT THEY ARE to EXPERTS (real ones, not the ones I joke about). So... warning to the wise... if you want to resell your relic... baby it like a new pair of white sneakers.... or pay the price... and never try to con someone... remember..."In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" (PM).