Whereas the difficulty of artificially ageing a guitar is one that also bitterly divides guitar gamers, even probably the most devoted home-relicer would in all probability draw the road at throwing a guitar on the fireplace to offer it an authentically battered patina.

Fortunately for rising indie-rock guitarist Greg Freeman, that work had inadvertently been accomplished for him by the point he got here to snag his favorite Gibson SG off Craigslist for a discount value – the guitar had been “burned to a crisp” in a home fireplace, and it nonetheless wears the scars at the moment.

“My pal Garrett, who performs bass in my band, discovered it on Craigslist in Maine for like, $400 or one thing,” he informed us in the most recent episode of My Guitars & Me. “It was in a home fireplace: that’s why it seems manner older than it’s, I assume. It form of instantly relic’d the entire thing. The pickguard is actually melted, and that put on seems about 70 years previous.

Regardless of its heavy battle scars, the guitar has turn out to be Freeman’s primary as he wrote and recorded sensational new album, All Set The Bone. “It performs actually nice and has massive thick neck and simply seems like a correct SG,” he explains. “A few of them don’t actually really feel proper to me, however this one is simply nice.”

Elsewhere within the episode, Freeman shares his love of an 80s Tokai Breezysound that he thinks is pretty much as good as any Fender equal, and in addition explains why he stopped shopping for and utilizing classic guitars: “I simply play too exhausting to have the ability to play a classic Mustang or one thing,” he explains. “Prefer it’s simply not going to be in tune. So, I believe that’s why I like guitars from the 90s and 2000s. It’s has the age, however can form of put up with loads.”

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Greg Freeman’s new album, All Set The Bone, is out now.

Josh is the Commissioning Editor of Guitar.com. He is chargeable for planning a lot of the critiques and options you see on the positioning – and writing a good chunk of them, too. Josh has been on workers at Guitar.com since 2019, having beforehand labored at Guitar Journal, Guitarist and Complete Guitar. He has an never-ending fascination with offsets of all sizes and styles, and rearranging his pedalboard for no actual sensible purpose.