Guitar Fails

[eXoz]

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I remember my first guitar, actually i had pretty nice Cort Viva Gold from 99' Korean Made, the thing was that this guitar had a Floyd Rose Licensed Bridge!
The thing was when i tried to set it up my B Sting snapped, i was dissapointed because that was basically a new set of strings! I decided to take a roundy head of string and connect it with snaped string! That was actually working pretty good! Guitar was in tune like hell, my B string never went out of tune!
here is a picture!
Also i'd like to apologize for my English skills.




Also in one of my LTD's - brand new one. I had a problem with signal going "weeker" in some certain positions, that was weird and looked like OUTPUT socket or cable was damaged, tried few cables, checked the socket and everything looked fine.. After few days of pointless fight (Changing EMG batteries, checking EMG wiring, checking pots) i just sat down and looked on this guitar thinking "Ohh come on, what is wrong with you!?".. Then i have noticed that on the back, where all the cables and Switch are, there was a little piece of brass coming out of the switch - it was pointed in cover direction (the black cover) and the thing was that the cover had an aluminium foil on it, so when i was making a pressure on cover, pushing it, it was touching this brass and guitar was loosing power.. Seriously i have spent like 2-3 days just to realize that, and what's funnier that was my fault because i was playing with this before.. Facepalm..


@Edit:
That's my first post on this forum, so I'd like to say Hello!

 

[Senobarr]

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The location: Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany
The Gig: The base clubhouse at the golf course

We had just set up our equipment. I noticed my G string had broke, so i quickly replaced it, and got it tuned once again. My band mate walked and mentioned he had a set of wire cutters, and could take care of my "trail string" hanging off the head. I said, "sure." He went to his case, returned with his cutters, held the trail string, and "snip". He paused for a second...The look on his face when he realized that (although he was holding the trail string in his hand) he cut on wrong side of the post was PRICELESS!! He blinked, looked at me and said, "did i just do what i think i did?" As i looked down at the new string hanging off my guitar I said, "umm..yep..yep you did." He ran back to his case muttering something about having and extra one, and apologizing for the wrong cut. He returned, we replaced the string, and the show went on.

 

[mamm]

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(...) pickup swap. I always do it sitting on the floor with the guitar on my lap

Man, the thought of soldering anything on my lap gives me the willies, big time. :eek5:

What do you have against your family jewels? lol

 

[danoaz]

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Back when I was 17 I had a 1973 Ampeg VT-40 (we called it the Ampig cuz it was sooo heavy) with the controls on top of the amp. I had a Coke on top of it while practicing one day and accidentally knocked it over and it poured down into the circuitry and controls. I let it dry and it made some funny sounds for a while- then during a gig a few weeks later it made a loud pop and literally burst into flames. That was then end of that amp- and the gig...

 

[gkex]

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Definitely melted a pot and spent hours trying to figure out what that buzzing was. Inevitably the pot suffered further damage due to this, and then stopped working entirely.
Only took about eight more hours to figure out what had gone wrong.

 

[T ROCKER]

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My main guitar has always been my '92 PRS CE24, so it has paid the price for my occasional 'lapses of judgement' . . . One time, in a big hurry to get to practice, I grabbed the guitar (in it's gig bag) off my bed and turned to run out of the room. As the gig bag suddenly got about 9 lbs lighter, I realized I'd forgotten to zip it up, and watched in horror as the guitar flew across the room in slow motion and bounced off the hardwood floor. When I finally worked up the courage to actually pick it up and check for damage, it turns out it was perfectly fine, other than a slightly out-of-tune D string. Those CE's are not delicate, which is occasionally a very good thing. Never put your guitar in it's case, or gig bag, if you ain't gonna close that thing tight !

A few years later I was at one of those very rare fun-as-hell jam parties where the guitar was in my hands for the almost the whole duration. This one was at a friend's cottage, and the physical distance from normal society was directly proportional to the amount of beer we all drank that night. The later part was a blur, to say the least. In those days I use to smoke cigarettes, and like all the 'cool' players, I'd wedge my burning smoke in the low E string behind the nut. I guess the party ended at some point - I don't remember when, exactly - but at least I was coherent enough to put my guitar away, in my 'lucky' gig bag, at the end of it. A day or two later, after we returned to civilization, I opened up my gig bag to find the crusty remains of a cigarette butt still tucked in the string. I'll let the pics finish the story >>>>>

 

[ThunderLizard]

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Okay that beat my hand getting burnt story that I just posted a few posts back (in this thread.) That beats it by a lot.

Not a competition. And for sure not a competition I want to be the winner of. After the second burn I was expecting to bump the guitar and have it fall on me.

 

[HKZSquared]

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I was recording a video of some Metallica riffs and like 10 seconds in, starting hard with Master of Puppets, my cable shorted out. Dun-dun dun-dun-ting WTF?! XD