How to Age Guitar parts

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Most of the experienced guys will tell you to start with a guitar with a nitro finish, the poly finishes just don't age the same. So if you've got a poly clearcoat you've got to strip it off and refinish you guitar with nitro, wait 6 months for it to cure, then you can start to relic it. Here's a few sites that have some info

These 2 are related, one is photos from the demo the other a fairly good description of what was being done.

http://www.pbase.com/jroy/relicdemo
http://tdpri.com/resourceRELICING.htm

Lots of info and help can be found on this site
http://www.reranch.com/reranch/
This guitar is in the reranch gallery and gives some tips
http://home.flash.net/~guitars/Stewsdaphne.html

http://home.flash.net/~guitars/archive.html#relic

Here's a link to an interview with the guys who put together those exact replicas of SRV's #1, only 100 made or something. There's a link to pics at the bottom. Buy SRV Live at the El Mocambo to see how to relic a guitar Stevie Ray style.
http://www.stratcollector.com/newsdesk/archives/000125.html

Most of the guys who are really good at the relic process won't give away much, you really have to dig to find bits here and there.  8)