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Post subject: interesting guitar injuries
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:42 pm
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anyone have any?
i don't


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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:50 pm
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One of my friends got repetitive strain injury in his wrist alledgedly from playing the guitar. I'll say no more :|

I've had the usual blisters and stuff...once got a cut on my elbow from the strap button on my J bass...about it.


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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:26 am
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None for me. Just sore fingers every once in awhile.


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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:36 am
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I work at a local FBO.. a corporate air field, if you will.

I do alot of refueling jet aircraft and I get
Jet fuel/AVGAS and aviation prist on my hands
& fingers sometimes.

Well, about 3 months after comming home right
after work & playing my 12-string acoustic..

My finger tips have deteriorated to the point where
I must not play and let them repair themselves.

We aint talking about callouses.. all out chaffing, haha!

Anyone got any gloves? I should use them from here on out.

That is a severe injury for any guitarist!


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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:52 am
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I was cleaning dirt and rust off of one string with my finger and the string cut me pretty good. It actually gave me a scar. But at least it wasn't on my fretting hand.


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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:54 am
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My injury didn't start with the guitar but, when I broke my collar bone in a car accident, I wasn't able to stand and support a solid body guitar for YEARS. I had to go acoustic for a while but now I have my Tele and I'm back on track!


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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:26 am
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callouses, chaffing! and then ones my fingertip ripped open to the point where I had no prints anymore :p

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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 11:00 am
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ya me too. my fingers are so badly callused and beaten up that my fretting hand has no fingerprints and i can no longer really feel with my fretting fingers. if they ever have to fingerprint me they will be very unusual fingerprints!


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Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:08 pm
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All I have ever had is a sore back and shoulder the day after a gig. 5 hour gigs are rough to play.


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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:22 pm
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You should've bought a parker guitar :p
they're so light, they test them on regular folk like you and me, and determind taht you could play four hours without feeling it :p
(the greatest thing about a parker is you don't have to retune them :o )

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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:34 pm
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4 hours is a walk in the park. Its that last hour that gets me on the odd occasion that we are hired for a 5 hour party.


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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:47 pm
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I just got a cut from a machinehead on my bass :/


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Man, the topic's title sucked me in. I guess I was expecting more interesting injuries. At least I got nailed in the eye when a string broke.


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When I was just starting to play, I was trying to do the Pete Townshend "windmill" thing on my Kramer. Of course, I don't change strings unless I absolutely have to, and these were tres rusty. So anywho, I'm doing the windwill, and all of sudden my fingers are kinda sticky. I'd sliced all these little lines into my thumb with the high E string and didn't even fill it. Needless to say, there was a pretty cool looking blood spray on the pickguard.


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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:50 pm
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stevestrat wrote:
4 hours is a walk in the park. Its that last hour that gets me on the odd occasion that we are hired for a 5 hour party.

Maybe you should buy that Parker P42MBL priced at around 600/700 bucks.
It's really great a friend of mine has it and it plays awesomely,
and then there was this Yamaha RGX-A2 that played devinely for what it was!!
And that one I could surtainly play for 6 hours :p

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