oh wow! Why did you destroy them?
variety of reasons.
This one was a nightmare. The finish never fully hardened, so as I was polishing it the top layer would droop a little and pull out the burst (red/gold to purple chamelon, with splatters, and a green/silver binding). Everything was trash except the playability and the tone. as I smakec the body with a hammer, the body separated from the neck cleanly (after 6 years), well, bits of the body did tear away to be honest, but clean enough for me to repurpose the neck into:
I added binding, inlay, and used up a body I had made a decade prior but messed up the shape, so it's an LP-kinda shape but with way more comfort. Sold it for a whopping 350 euros
oh, and it is fully solid and weighed in at 7.4lbs/3.3kg.With a solid rosewood neck.
lightweight guitars don't need to be chambered.
Others, like
we destroyed because the intonation was off, the fretboard started to peel off, and the neck shifted in the neck pocket.
or
The neck started to warp, there were errors made in the construction, the body had a large crack. despite sounding like a billion bucks, it just was not okay to keep around anymore, so bye bye bye.
or
My very first guitars I have made from scratch. From jointing the tops, to well, everything. They had issues.
The left one had a neck blank that was too thick, so the neck pocket itself was so deep that there was only 6mm of wood on the bottom so the neck pocket was not stable. Nowadays I use scarf joints and easy access heels but in 2013 I had no idea. The right guitar became unplayable; the neck had such a severe backbow that the trussrod had to be maxxed, and one day it just snapped, taking apart the neck and the fretboard.
So they had to go.
a few others I managed to recycle into something else but these just were beyond rescue.
