For Sale is My Fender Custom Shop 1957 Wildwood 10 Relic Ready Guitar.

Amazing player incredibly light weight super straight neck weighing in 7.08 LBS. This has a nice punchy resonant sound great combo with alder body and maple neck. It's a rare faded surf green that stands out on stage and everywhere it goes. Thin skin and ready to relic your self. Comes with all Candy (backplate) and COA. It's an amazing guitar. Grab it now before it's gone! I bought it brand new June 2023 brand new from Wildwood Guitars. I'm downsizing and not really playing strats anymore. As this is meant to wear quickly it already has some wear at the bottom of the body see pics. Frets in great shape.

If you are unaware of relic ready guitars I have copied the sales pitch from the wildwood site.

Over the years, Wildwood Guitars has sold thousands of relic’d Fender guitars. The incredible response that we’ve gotten from our Wildwood Tens is proof that most of the guitar-playing world loves instruments that marry modern convenience with vintage look, feel, and sound. We’ve also learned that there are plenty of pickers out there that like the distressed vintage look, but feel a little strange about playing a guitar that they didn’t relic themselves through everyday use. For these guitarists, each ding and scratch is a punctuation mark in the story of their instrument, and they want to be in charge of what happens in the tale of their axe.

Obviously, this is easier said than done. If you want to make an NOS finish look vintage through good ‘ol fashioned playwear, you usually have to play it for so long that it actually becomes vintage in the process. You could put your guitar in a trash bag of burned leaves and relic it yourself like one of my coworkers, but your house will smell horrible the moment you bring it inside. Frankly, few people have enough resources, energy, or training to make it look as good as the Fender Custom Shop’s builders can.

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So, these players have been in a pickle until now. How do you make a new guitar look vintage without having to wait thirty years or resort to crazy schemes involving bags of burning leaves? Well, we at Wildwood Guitars are proud to introduce our answer: a new line of Wildwood Tens that we have dubbed “relic-readies.”

These Custom Shop creations are just like the heavy-relic guitars that have been a shop staple for years—same wood, same electronics, same hardware, and same outstanding build quality—except we snatch them away from Fender before they have a chance to actually do the relic job. The result is a guitar that accumulates wear-and-tear at an exponentially higher rate than normal. So, it’ll look like guitar that’s been gigged for thirty years after just a couple birthdays. Finally, YOU can be the one to make your guitar look vintage!

After playing and ogling the first batch of these guitars, we feel confident that this line is easily one of the coolest collaborations in the history of our friendship with Fender’s Custom Shop! At Wildwood, we’ve been doing our best to tell our guitars’ stories as faithfully as we can for thirty-four years. Now, we are excited to step aside and give the reigns to our exceptional customers. What sort of interesting tales will you carve into these finishes? We can’t wait to find out with you!