[Shuie]

Its a GVCG replica of a '63 slab board in shoreline gold.

I've played a lot of the early Cunetto era Relics from the late '90s as well as the post Cunetto relics, and a few of the more recent Master Built guitars, and none of them looked the part of a vintage guitar. Some were okay, but still just didn't look authentic you set them next to a real '50s or '60s guitar.

This one has it all. It's the first modern guitar I've ever seen that looks and feels like an old guitar. Some of the parts actually are old, but its the wood and the finish that blow me away. Everything about this guitar just seems old. The wood, the clay dots, the hardware, etc.. The dirt under the pickguard looks like its 40-50 years old. The dirt and grime is worked into the finish on the back of the neck exactly like a 40-50 year old Fender. The rust looks old. It smells old. Its just ridiculous.

GVCG doesn't build guitars for the public anymore. Fender won't let him. Allegedly, he was given the option of coming to work for them in his C&D letter and never took them up on it. Fender is also allegedly buying at least some of these guitars from the public to take them out of circulation and to use them to teach their team of Master Builders team how to make more convincing relics and reissues.