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Aging A Fender Strat Body | Mythos Mods

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Can Zach take this Import Mike McCready Fender Stratocaster and turn it from Road Worn to Custom Shop? In the second part of this series Zach tries to improve the existing relic job by adding dings, dents, and stain to the finish to make it look a bit more realistic.

Huge thanks to ThroBak for providing pickups for the future episodes! https://www.throbak.com/63-stratocast...

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#fenderstratocaster #guitarmods #mythospedals
00:00 Intro
00:45 Overview & Tools
04:35 Testing out ideas
11:09 Stripping Paint
14:27 Distressing the Back
15:58 Dings and Dents
19:38 Chipping the back
31:17 Smacking the front
36:21 Chipping the front
42:03 Staining with Montyspresso
46:10 Final Thoughts

20 Comments

@krunkenbrux 1 year ago

I love relics. Always have. They're more comfy and broken in and I don't have to stress about dings. All of the fun and more of having a nice guitar, without any of the worry.

@ericjenks9596 2 years ago

One more step if you’re up for it would be to buff/lightly sand the transition areas more. I feel like there needs to be more gradation to the big worn away areas

@Earthwormjimm 1 year ago (edited)

Ok. It’s 2:20 AM and I am hiding under a blanket watching a guy hit a Strat with a rock while I try not to wake up my baby in his bassinet next to me. All right. 2020 is still the weirdest year ever. Just doesn’t seem to end.

@druwk 2 years ago (edited)

Wire grill brush works great for chewing up the raw wood quickly to mimic pic strikes. Heat gun can soften things up to do the work for you for on the finish

@GitShiddy 2 years ago

Big fan of what the Montypresso did. That made the guitar finish look old and not just beat up. I think Zach could've gone a bit further with it, but overdoing a relic is real easy to do & real hard to fix.

@coryburns13 2 years ago

That really does look excellent. I wondered what effect the monty's would have on those worn parts of the body. I dig it man, I dig it hard!

@13aphomet 2 years ago

I have an old roadworn strat that I've been beating up some and using the montys really helps. I even add some heat to it in different spots to like liquify it and rub it in. Looks great guys!!

@JeffDavidsonUnRefined 2 years ago

Man, I’ve been waiting years for Adam Savage to do this to a guitar. Only needed to wait for Zach to make a video on this to get my fix.

@chrislink73 2 years ago

love these videos, it's always good to know this stuff to take an already good guitar and then make it look and sound great.

@dewey7330 2 years ago

Looks like the “mudd” they use to break in baseballs.

@blackrocklaboratories 9 months ago

You can wrap the railroad tie in a rag to get some variation in the dents. It gives you some nice big dents in the finish that don’t have an easily identifiable imprint. Also different pieces of wood mixed in with the metal and rocks give you more natural looking scars

@MrSongwriter2 1 year ago

The back you needed a big belt buckle and constantly rub it into the wood. Don't forget to get some studded belt action going on it

@mrfoogaba2005 2 years ago

I really like this series!

@tonedpeter 2 years ago

if i was paying 15$ a month to see these videos i would be 100% fine with it, this is the EXACT type of guitar content i wanna see!!😁

@dan-ottley 2 years ago

Nice one Zach! Big fan of these rellicing projects. You did a great job here and have shown that with some time and effort you can take a budget relic job and elevate it to something more natural. Clearly this stems from your passion for prop replicas. Shout out to Monty’s Montypresso wax that stuff is great! Love to Mythos!

@rogerYT69 2 years ago

have a road worn strat in 3tsb from one of the first year (maybe around 2006)...the aging is perfect and much better then the newer ones!😊

@iagobroxado 2 years ago

25:19 "You could play tic-tac-toe on that thing" LOOOOOOL then "I don't know man, just feel it.. feel it in your heart" I'm dead xD

@KevinKraushaar 2 years ago

Just found your channel - Great vibe!!!😊

@adrianhjordan1981 2 years ago

Great video as always!!

Really has me considering getting one of these and doing something similar (though I'd go torty guard lol).

This guitar makes me sad that John Mayer left Fender, because we'd probably have a Mexican BLK1 by now if he was still with them 😕