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Originally Posted by fdjake

Now for a new IDEA!!!!

Ready???

Do we have any guitar players here???

Fender makes a $4000 "Relic" version of their brand new guitars...They AGE them. Placing a convincing patina on the guitar right out of the factory. Worn paint, dings, scratches, wear marks on the finger boards. They sell like crazy!!

How about a "RELIC'd" ERA Cobra?? Could be VERY COOL!!

Fender uses $75,000 original vintage Strats and Tele's as a template....They copy every scratch. Gibson does the same thing...They copied Gary Rossingtons (Skynyrd) Les Paul down to the cigarette burn on the front and the wood screws used to repair a headstock break in the 1970's.

I've always seen CROWDS gathered around original Cobras with that PATINA....The car could be parked next to the most drop dead gorgeous restoration you've ever seen, but the CROWD is 5 deep around the battle scarred original!!

Something to think about.....They are called R E P L I C A S for a reason!

This is what i did to my ERA. The old car dudes don't get it. I get 3 comments. The first two are by far the most common #1 When are you going to paint it #2 the paint looks terrible #3 Wow