trevorus
Modsterbator
Well, got a couple of these stories, actually. One just happened. I was in my garage/jam room, and my wife was letting the dogs in from outside, and they were muddy, so they go in their kennels for a bit to dry off a little. Well, the littlest one was able to slip through a door my wife was going through, and was running into the house. Well, that dog knows to listen to me when I get that tone, and so I run to go assist, but I have my guitar in my hands. I try to close the door behind me so the cats don't go the other way, and my peghead of my Tele gets pegged by the edge of the door. It snaps the post off of my tuner on the low E. I hear that noise that sends a shock down the spine of every guitar player. It's the same one that allows you to move faster than a speeding bullet when a guitar is about to fall over. But, the damage was done, and now I am trying to track down a single tuner, because buying a new set to replace one kinda sucks. If I have to I will, but dangit, I just hate that sort of thing. BTW, check out the trading post if you think you may have one around.
The second one is when I got up off the couch and my guitar was resting on the cushion next to me. I started to lose my balance, and stepped right on the edge of my guitar, and pushed the top edge into the edge of my pedal board case. Now I have a ding through the binding even. This is on a Reverend Jetstream, so the one solution i have come up with is to add the chrome armrest like the old ones have to cover it up. It should cover it completely and look pretty cool. I borrowed the one from my bass to try, and I kinda like it anyways.
Another one was kind of nobody's fault. I was working at a guitar store and we had just gotten a shipment of guitars, and we were hanging them on the wall. We had just set up and tuned a see thru green American Deluxe Strat, and put it on the guitar hanger. I went back to my bench to work on the next one, and a couple minutes later, I hear a thunk, crack. The peg holder wall broke in that spot and dropped the guitar and hanger. The guitar fell but end down onto an amp beneath it, and pitched forward and landed on the headstock. It got cracked from just past the second tuner to the nut on the high E. We had to send it back to Fender and get a new neck, and sell it as B stock. That was a painful sight.
The second one is when I got up off the couch and my guitar was resting on the cushion next to me. I started to lose my balance, and stepped right on the edge of my guitar, and pushed the top edge into the edge of my pedal board case. Now I have a ding through the binding even. This is on a Reverend Jetstream, so the one solution i have come up with is to add the chrome armrest like the old ones have to cover it up. It should cover it completely and look pretty cool. I borrowed the one from my bass to try, and I kinda like it anyways.
Another one was kind of nobody's fault. I was working at a guitar store and we had just gotten a shipment of guitars, and we were hanging them on the wall. We had just set up and tuned a see thru green American Deluxe Strat, and put it on the guitar hanger. I went back to my bench to work on the next one, and a couple minutes later, I hear a thunk, crack. The peg holder wall broke in that spot and dropped the guitar and hanger. The guitar fell but end down onto an amp beneath it, and pitched forward and landed on the headstock. It got cracked from just past the second tuner to the nut on the high E. We had to send it back to Fender and get a new neck, and sell it as B stock. That was a painful sight.
