Building My DREAM GUITAR! (Heavy Relic Strat)

Links to all the parts:
Pickups:
Neck + Middle - Semour Duncan SSL1

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Fender USA Professional Strat
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1994 Custom Shop Gibson Les Paul Classic
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - INTRO
01:06 - The Build
09:47 - It's Done!
10:18 - Tone Tests
12:50 - OUTRO

#guitar #build #relic

[johnvaughan]

The high tech brick wall was my favourite bit

[mxderry]

"I used a high-tech brick wall to do more relicing" lol

[danielsgrunge]

This thing is sooo beautiful man! I love shell pink.
The one guitar I'm dreaming about building looks almost like this, but with a 3 tone sunburst beneath the pastel color

[Jorgestrat]

You made an awesome work here! I love when some guitar player go on and made his own special custom shop guitar!!! Absolutely fantastic!

[vainparasite]

That blew my mind. It's the best relic build I've seen and the end result is astounding. Well done 👍👍👍

[andrewvitale]

All the banging, scraping, knocking and finding a pink mist on all the cars and then rock music! Your neighbor's must love you! Actually she's beautiful! And you did a great jod! And sounds great bravo sir! Oh and the exploding Dremel adds to patina.

[Adrian-vkcu]

That guitar is freaking stunning, yet also beastly. I have a shell pink player, but wanting a reliced one to match my reliced purple Tele..

[rossco-dps]

Mate that looks and sounds amazing. Great job. I've done some mild relicing by way of accidentally smacking my guitar on stuff as I jam in my tiny apartment. I find a number of beers helps the process along nicely.

[kaiden_]

I am absolutely in love with this guitar! It looks amazing, even with the newer finish you put on it. Currently I only have one strat in olympic white and my dream is to upgrade everything about it and then relic it like this one. I think I’ve watched this video more times than I can count to see the fantastic process you go through to make it look so good.

I also think custom built or modded guitars are so much better because they really give that personal touch that you just can’t get from a custom shop

I wish there were more people that would make videos like this, keep up the amazing work!

[stevec]

I'm just about to go down a similar, less relic route with a lovely bargain squier affinity with great neck I just picked up, aiming for SD Li'l 59 for the bridge. I actually like the stock pickup middle and neck! but there's always room to experiment. Great vid and build...why go custom shop!

[dangitdan]

The acid is used to etch PCBs and I use it as well. Be careful as it can completely strip certain finishes so you’ll go from relic to ruined.
Nice job 😊

[Okla_Soft]

I built 2 Warmoth Strats the last 2 years but they’re not traditional, more of a modern superstrat with a single humbucker. My next project I want to do a traditional Strat much like this, heavy relic, shell pink, with a few modern conveniences as well like you did, especially the heel truss rod. I have the side adjust/heel adjust on my current Warmoth necks and I think I’ll do the same on my next Strat.

This is a beautiful guitar and I love how you showed everything so clearly throughout the steps of the build. For me the painting/sanding is the trickiest part. You did a great job man, congrats.!

[Memu_]

I don't really like reliced guitars but that looks pretty damn great.

[jepa]

I bought a factory reliced guitar and loving it. I have been using it and also displayed in our living room. I have the cort sunset tc worn butter. 😊

[Thetimbercruiser]

One of the better relic video(s)/channel I’ve been able to find.

[ErhanGaming]

Plot twist: there was no guitar in this video, it was all just CG.

[urliktheslayer]

Doing something similar. Building a shell pink heavy relic strat but for mine I’m putting Seymour Duncan hot rails in the bridge position and Seymour Duncan single coils for the middle and neck positions. Hoping to use it to play post punk and other post hardcore songs as well as blues riffs and songs. This video is definitely a big inspiration!

[jrtolber]

This is fantastic work and a great video. I love seeing people who take ownership of their guitars - nothing wrong with buying a relic, but the story behind this one is so much better.

[jeffbaker]

Great job. A beautiful relic using common stuff. No fancy pancy crap.

[ernieb]

Hey Alfie, Just found your channel today and saw the guitar you made for your dad so I started checking the channel out. so far so good! Lovin it so far. Keep it up