2005 R8 with 1200 gigs on it. All natural wear

[guitplayer]

It takes alot of cleaning and rubbing to remove the "LesPaul"

 

[matt173844]

How did you wear away the paint in such a way on the top? What caused it?

I played with a really low guitar strap

 

[matt173844]

sweat and honest wear ?

Yea. I actually wanted to keep it prestige and after like two gigs someone banged a beer bottle against it. I had to just treat it like a tool from then on.

 

[matt173844]

women throwing their hotel keys at the stage

It was mostly beer bottles. sowmtimes a girl would lick it. Gross.

 

[matt173844]

It takes alot of cleaning and rubbing to remove the "LesPaul"

Yea that’s strange because I never cleaned the headstock. There must be something to that logo that flakes or fades with dirt.

 

[matt173844]

Lets see pics of you playing it live...new and recently.

Live, being cleaned, and my son after he helped solder in a new tone knob!

 

[matt173844]

1200 gigs and the frets look perfect. How about a picture of the rest of the fret board?

Naaw the frets are kind of messed up. I want to have it pleked but they said the first fret may need a refret

 

[matt173844]

Nope. there is no way my 2005 R8 would have done that.
The finish was way too thick and would have never checked or wore like that.
Where is the serial#? have to say faked and finish stripped.

You didn’t do what I did.

 

[garywright]

I played with a really low guitar strap

I see that !

 

[NINFNM]

Live, being cleaned, and my son after he helped solder in a new tone knob!

Cool pics, keep posting man.

 

[guitplayer]

Fade on my R8.

 

[renderit]

I see that !

NAILED IT!

 

[brandtkronholm]

You didn’t do what I did.

Yup.
A party/bar band playing several times a week for three or four hours each time - that’ll put some wear and mojo on the guitar! It makes much, much more sense now.
Awesome!
New frets are the way to go!

 

[brandtkronholm]

Nope. there is no way my 2005 R8 would have done that.
The finish was way too thick and would have never checked or wore like that.
Where is the serial#? have to say faked and finish stripped. View attachment 21045
Mine was HM`ed. View attachment 21046

Even the finish on the older R8/9/0s will eventually check and crack. My 1995 R9 is loaded with weather checking all over the guitar - especially where I made the most contact with it. I don’t think I have any bare wood areas on the guitar with the exception of a tiny chip or two.

The weather checks on my R9 are naturally occurring and earned over many, many gigs - not 1200, but many.

 

[zacknorton]

nice work. stage hours indeed!

 

[matt173844]

All cleaned up. What do you think? I kinda miss the grime…

 

[iTaylor]

Nice pictures…..
Natural relic looks awesome

 

[1allspub]

Awesome guitar!

 

[Wizard1183]

All cleaned up. What do you think? I kinda miss the grime… View attachment 21315

Fantastic. Sucks it didn’t check but phenomenal. I want to send you my guitar so you can wear it out naturally lol

 

[garywright]

All cleaned up. What do you think? I kinda miss the grime… View attachment 21315

looks fine now but that aged patina was over the top ! ..cool thing is you can do it again..probably not a bad thing to have opened it up after 18 years..do you still gig that heavy