One of the first things you’ll see when visiting the Cara Hot Rod Guitars website is the line, “No, you can’t just make a guitar look old by tossing it down the stairs!” While this line is quite humorous, it doesn’t mean that the staff at Cara Hot Rod Guitars isn’t serious about their craft. 
They do try to bring a bit of fun to the work, but they can create a great relic guitar that looks like it’s been around for years while sounding like a modern, perfectly-made instrument. Read more
Looking for a company to create a relic guitar for you? King Bee Guitars is an option. They create professionally aged guitars, hardware, and other parts. 
They have a “secret method” that they use to create this relic look. King Bee Guitars knows that quality is the key to any relic guitar, so while they will work diligently to add cosmetic relic touches, they also put just as much work into creating hand-carved bone nuts for each neck and providing polished, perfect guitars for you to play. Read more
Revelator Guitars prides themselves on creating “the finest in playable works of art.” Their custom and relic guitars really do approach art. Just take a look at the 1961 Revelator Vintage Fiesta Red S or the faded relic Sonic Blue S. 
Both look outstanding, and anyone who loves relic guitars will find these two and the many others offered by Revelator Guitars to be simply amazing. Read more
Looking to have a superior quality vintage or relic guitar made? Want a new custom guitar? If so, check out Virtual Vintage Guitars. This website and the team of guitar builders behind it have been involved in the world of creating guitars for more than thirty years. 
They can build collectible, custom, vintage, Fender, Stuart, and Gibson relic and custom instruments. Just tell them what you want, and they’ll put together an instrument you’ll love playing. Read more
Relic Guitars, a website that can be found at www.relicguitars.com, is an independent custom and relic guitar company. 
While some custom guitar makers are one-person jobs, the Relic Guitars company is a team effort. One of their goals is to capture the feel and vibe of every guitar they work on while at the same time making their custom guitars as affordable as possible. Why, after all, should a relic guitar cost anywhere near as much as the real thing?
Relic Guitars offers a number of services. First, you can select just how reliced you want your guitar. You can have it lightly reliced so that it only looks a few years older or heavily reliced, making it look like it’s been played for years. Note, though that the company will no longer relic any guitar that they don’t finish. This is because a lot of guitars today are being finished with a poly-type paint, which the company doesn’t really like or approve of. It can be hard to achieve a good relic look with these poly-type finishes. Like most custom and relic guitar builders, Relic Guitars won’t apply any decals or other labels to your guitar because of copyright laws.
Interested in seeing some of the work that the Relic Guitars company can do? Check out their website for images and information about guitars they’ve worked on the in the past. You won’t be disappointed in their work, and you may see an instrument on their site that you’d love to have.
