Re: Ever had an unfortunate accident with your guitar?
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Ever had an unfortunate accident with your guitar?
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Rand-O-Monium
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Flung a coupla Strats doing teh Yngwie-spins.
1st time was with a "nice" MIA '62-r/i,the Schaller straplock button screw broke off in the body...
2nd time the strap came over/around the Dunlop strap-side buttons.
I don't do those anymore...
Flung a coupla Strats doing teh Yngwie-spins.
1st time was with a "nice" MIA '62-r/i,the Schaller straplock button screw broke off in the body...
2nd time the strap came over/around the Dunlop strap-side buttons.
I don't do those anymore...
treyhaislip
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One of my all time favorite guitars was a Jackson SL3 (neck thru)...amazing tone and super fast neck!
A music pastor broke the neck accidentally (kinda a heavy guy who "bumped" into it...
) and all I got was a "sorry dude"
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And this thread makes me think of this song:
One of my all time favorite guitars was a Jackson SL3 (neck thru)...amazing tone and super fast neck!
A music pastor broke the neck accidentally (kinda a heavy guy who "bumped" into it...
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And this thread makes me think of this song:
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Rand-O-Monium
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Trey,did you ever get the Jackson looked at?
Trey,did you ever get the Jackson looked at?
treyhaislip
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I didn't–that was several years ago and I didn't know any good luthiers back then (nor that it could be fixed being a neck thru.) I was able to get some bucks for it but still beat myself up for not keeping it–I know an awesome luthier now who would have no issues fixing that guitar back up.
I didn't–that was several years ago and I didn't know any good luthiers back then (nor that it could be fixed being a neck thru.) I was able to get some bucks for it but still beat myself up for not keeping it–I know an awesome luthier now who would have no issues fixing that guitar back up.
Vasshu the humanoid typhoon
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Heh...a bookshelf of mine once toppled over(old stupid Copnehagen apartment with bad old floors)
And smashed up one of my strats...cleanly in three pieces...
Had a 78 big headstock mapleneck and an old Chandler body, and it was the body that died!
The pickguard died as well, anyways a few days later I glued that sucker back together, sanded it all down.
Sealed all strange bumps and had a friend of mine repaint it.
Sold it to another friend who still has that mongrel of a guitar.
Had it painted in fiesta red by the way..looked great, it was a tobacco sunburst before, always called it an old mans guitar, due to the sunburst
Heh...a bookshelf of mine once toppled over(old stupid Copnehagen apartment with bad old floors)
And smashed up one of my strats...cleanly in three pieces...
Had a 78 big headstock mapleneck and an old Chandler body, and it was the body that died!
The pickguard died as well, anyways a few days later I glued that sucker back together, sanded it all down.
Sealed all strange bumps and had a friend of mine repaint it.
Sold it to another friend who still has that mongrel of a guitar.
Had it painted in fiesta red by the way..looked great, it was a tobacco sunburst before, always called it an old mans guitar, due to the sunburst
eclecticsynergy
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Near-fatal car crash driving home from a gig back in the 80s. Woke up in the hospital after two days. Once I got my bearings and realized where I was & what must have happened, the first thing I asked the nurse was, "Did they save my guitar?"
"Yes," she said, walking over to the bedside table. She opened the drawer and took out the headstock. "This is part of it, right?"
That rental saved my life. I'd rented a full size Chevy so I could lend my Honda to my Mom for the weekend. There was only a foot of the car left in front of the windshield; half the engine came through the firewall. I'd have died for sure in a smaller car. It's also the only time that I ever paid extra for full collision insurance on a rental.
Two weeks later when I got out of the hospital, I had somebody take me to the salvage yard where the remains of the car were. Saved my guitar from the wreckage, put a new neck on it and the pickups & wiring still worked. It still lives today, 44 years old and soon to get its third neck.
Near-fatal car crash driving home from a gig back in the 80s. Woke up in the hospital after two days. Once I got my bearings and realized where I was & what must have happened, the first thing I asked the nurse was, "Did they save my guitar?"
"Yes," she said, walking over to the bedside table. She opened the drawer and took out the headstock. "This is part of it, right?"
That rental saved my life. I'd rented a full size Chevy so I could lend my Honda to my Mom for the weekend. There was only a foot of the car left in front of the windshield; half the engine came through the firewall. I'd have died for sure in a smaller car. It's also the only time that I ever paid extra for full collision insurance on a rental.
Two weeks later when I got out of the hospital, I had somebody take me to the salvage yard where the remains of the car were. Saved my guitar from the wreckage, put a new neck on it and the pickups & wiring still worked. It still lives today, 44 years old and soon to get its third neck.
Vasshu the humanoid typhoon
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I just did not want to keep an unlucky guitar
My friend still uses it, so that is 17 years ago, no troubles.
No difference really, It glued neatly together and was just as strong again afterwards.
I just did not want to keep an unlucky guitar
My friend still uses it, so that is 17 years ago, no troubles.
Matt42
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I had just started jamming with a new guy, we had played 2 or 3 times together and were just starting to figure each other out musically and build a bit of chemistry. The 4th time we played or so, I was getting my Gretsch out and the strap got twisted up and ended up slipping off of the tail strap button and fell straight down onto the concrete floor (we were in the garage). It landed squarely on the output jack and the high e tuner hit the coffee table in front of me. Fortunately there was no structural damage to the guitar, but it cracked the finish near the jack and destroyed the high e string tuner. It also knocked the bridge about, just from the force of the stop and completely wrecked the intonation. It killed that entire practice (I had another guitar, but couldn't stop worrying about my Gretsch). I took it down to the local repair guy and had some locking tuners put on, I think they were Schallers, put on some strap locks, and had him do a complete setup and intonation correction. You can hardly even tell now, but damn that was a scary thing to have happen.
I had just started jamming with a new guy, we had played 2 or 3 times together and were just starting to figure each other out musically and build a bit of chemistry. The 4th time we played or so, I was getting my Gretsch out and the strap got twisted up and ended up slipping off of the tail strap button and fell straight down onto the concrete floor (we were in the garage). It landed squarely on the output jack and the high e tuner hit the coffee table in front of me. Fortunately there was no structural damage to the guitar, but it cracked the finish near the jack and destroyed the high e string tuner. It also knocked the bridge about, just from the force of the stop and completely wrecked the intonation. It killed that entire practice (I had another guitar, but couldn't stop worrying about my Gretsch). I took it down to the local repair guy and had some locking tuners put on, I think they were Schallers, put on some strap locks, and had him do a complete setup and intonation correction. You can hardly even tell now, but damn that was a scary thing to have happen.
squatch57
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I split my original '67 SG standard in half hammering in a stud for a stop tailpiece. I guess the hole I drilled was slightly too small! heh
This happened back in 1978, but I was pretty devastated
I ended up getting it fixed and totally customized by Rock Repairs
In the end it had 13 coats of black paint, smoothed neck heel, jumbo frets, Alembic Hot Rod magnets in the pickups and Grover heads
It was a mean machine, and maybe one of the first black SG's (I hadn't seen a black one back in the 70's)
I sold it to a friend of mine after a few years, and was totally pissed off to find out he'd later swapped it for an Aria Pro II !
I split my original '67 SG standard in half hammering in a stud for a stop tailpiece. I guess the hole I drilled was slightly too small! heh
This happened back in 1978, but I was pretty devastated
I ended up getting it fixed and totally customized by Rock Repairs
In the end it had 13 coats of black paint, smoothed neck heel, jumbo frets, Alembic Hot Rod magnets in the pickups and Grover heads
It was a mean machine, and maybe one of the first black SG's (I hadn't seen a black one back in the 70's)
I sold it to a friend of mine after a few years, and was totally pissed off to find out he'd later swapped it for an Aria Pro II !
leevc5
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Broke G tuner on my Les Paul. At a gig one night I stepped back to adjust my amp and knocked the guitar off it's stand and it fell over hitting the G tuner straight on. I almost cried. Old pearloid tuners and couldn't find a matching tuner so spent a fortune on a new matching set. Major bummer!
Broke G tuner on my Les Paul. At a gig one night I stepped back to adjust my amp and knocked the guitar off it's stand and it fell over hitting the G tuner straight on. I almost cried. Old pearloid tuners and couldn't find a matching tuner so spent a fortune on a new matching set. Major bummer!
