Thank god for cases

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Had two of my gibsons fall earlier “domino style.”

Feeling extremely blessed that the cases appeared to do their jobs. The one that was in a hard shell hit really hard (and loud). Funny, whenever things like that happen, time seems to run in slow motion for a second. Counting my blessings, no obvious damage.
 
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Very. No clear headstock splits or anything obvious like that. I thought for sure i was gonna vomit when i opened the hardshell case. As you said, very lucky!!
 
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I bet the second case slowed the first's drop once the first case pulled the second parallel from the fulcrum point and then sliding against each other slowing the overall drop. Make sense?

I bet a single case would have been much much worse without the friction of the second case -thats what broke mine -a single hit.

So maybe your second guitar was trying to save your first from suicide attempt :lmao:
 
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Or maybe the second case push the first and the first is the hero....

This is what happens when you regretfully do a lot of drugs at a young age. I apologize.
 
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Cases and gigbags are good things. I never understood why some folks drag their stuff around with no container.

Although..... what I've been telling clients for 40 year is, "Get a case. It will keep all the splinters in once place so I can fix it when you drop it."
 
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Still waiting for them to reproduce the Gen. I and II chainsaw cases. Ugly as sin, but they were the best Gibson cases ever made in terms of protection.
 
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This is why I store my cases flat, stacked.

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NegativeEase said:
This is what happens when you regretfully do a lot of drugs at a young age. I apologize.
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If you think it hurts you know, imagine what it's gonna do when you get to college! :D



The neck joints on Gibson's are a lot stronger than people give them credit for. Don't get me wrong, a flat/scarfed/laminate neck is stronger than the simple 1-piece method of a traditional Gibson neck, but I've never had one of their headstocks break on me.

Most of the crap they get comes from earlier guitars or reissues from before they started reinforcing the neck joint and decreasing the neck angle to 14° to decrease the short grain.
 
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Chistopher said:
If you think it hurts you know, imagine what it's gonna do when you get to college! :D



The neck joints on Gibson's are a lot stronger than people give them credit for. Don't get me wrong, a flat/scarfed/laminate neck is stronger than the simple 1-piece method of a traditional Gibson neck, but I've never had one of their headstocks break on me.

Most of the crap they get comes from earlier guitars or reissues from before they started reinforcing the neck joint and decreasing the neck angle to 14° to decrease the short grain.
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Did not know that they changed it. I've broken 2. and SG and a 335. SG was an early 80s and the 335 was a 2001 Custom shop reissue which probably had the original neck angle.

AND -in Gibsons defense I've dropped more than my fair share of guitars and usually their fine -If I remember correctly both falls that resulted in breaks were falls on the face where the impact wold have concentrated the force on to the bone nut and broken behind it on the angled taper of the neck.
 
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Archer250 said:
This is why I store my cases flat, stacked.

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How high a stack are we talking? Thats fine if only a 3-4 and especially if there are ruggedized ATA flight rated cases -many regular cases will eventually put force on the bottom guitars after a couple of cases stacked in my experience- or at least put the ATA cases at the bottom or your ones with the most structure. I have a friend that has a concert rental business that had a few guitars damaged by storing them in big stacks.(probably 8-10 if my memory serves)

I store mine on edge longways (-as god intended :lmao:) to avoid weight build up, make accessibility easy -and in the event of a sideways fall -there's no force to break a guitar possible like if storing them upright.
 
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There is something interesting I've learned gigging and touring -sometimes regular guitar cases are the reason your guitar gets damaged because they are not handled with care -whereas often if people need to move something and a guitar case is treated like a damn UPS package -sometimes damaging a guitar by being thrashed around inside the case. (Ive had one guitar broken in the case)

-whereas a ruggedized softcase is treated with care by crew, people meandering nearby backstage, bandmates, soundmen, and on public transport etc etc. -and can comfortably be protected and kept off the ground by wearing it -so my main #1 guitar I gig with travels in a ruggedized soft case -it looks like a soft case but has ABA plastic shields around head neck and body plus padding. I take it to hotels and carry on planes, trains etc and it gets treated with care because I pretend around everyone that is delicate -when it is not at all. backup guitars I will fly in ATA rated cases

but I will never transport a guitar in a standard guitar case on a plane -that is asking for the worst outcome -If the case doesn't have butterfly latches of MIL spec latches and aluminum corners or ABA injection molded ATA ratings -don't use it on planes or shipping unless you tape the latches and pad the outside of the case IMO
 
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NegativeEase said:
How high a stack are we talking? Thats fine if only a 3-4 and especially if there are ruggedized ATA flight rated cases -many regular cases will eventually put force on the bottom guitars after a couple of cases stacked in my experience- or at least put the ATA cases at the bottom or your ones with the most structure. I have a friend that has a concert rental business that had a few guitars damaged by storing them in big stacks.(probably 8-10 if my memory serves)

I store mine on edge longways (-as god intended :lmao:) to avoid weight build up, make accessibility easy -and in the event of a sideways fall -there's no force to break a guitar possible like if storing them upright.
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Two.

I use them as stoppers for cases sandwiched together horizontally on their edges.

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