Why on Earth do you care? There are lots of things in the guitar world I find hideously ugly: flame tops, birds, gold hardware, etc..Shorty Medlock 5151 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 11:14 amOkay...I have always been one of those guys that takes good care of my guitars and equipment....so this whole relic guitar deal has miffed.
So, like, I just don't buy PRSes. If you find relics aesthetically displeasing, don't buy one - you'll save money, congratulations!
Anyway, artificial aging of consumer goods has been around for centuries. Furniture, violins, the sunburst pattern on guitars, jeans, yada yada yada. Sometimes it's butt ugly, sometime it looks good.
I don't like a lot of relics but I do like the way my Danocaster's Candy Apple Red metallic has been aged to a sort of metallic peach - I'd like it just as much if that was 'just the color' with no particular aging but c'est la vie.