relicing

Verb

relic (third-person singular simple present relics, present participle relicing or relicking, simple past and past participle reliced or relicked)

1. (often, transitive, uncommon) To cause (an object) to appear old or worn, to distress.
   • Age has become a fetish in the world of guitars where large amounts of money are paid for a specially “reliced” guitar. As one company, Relic Guitars, which offers this service claims, “The idea behind relicing a guitar is to artificially replicate the natural wear that occurs over many years […]”2009, Trevor Pinch, David Reinecke, “Technostalgia: How old gear lives on in new music”, in Karin Bijsterveld, José van Dijck, editors, Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural...

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