You guessed it, I'm bored again.

- Give it 30 years of honest play.
- Tie it to the back of a car and have it dragged down a gravel road for a quarter of a mile or so.
- Shower it with a sand blaster.
- Lend it to your kid to play roller hockey with.
- Dip it in the Hudson River.
- Use it to shovel snow.
- Spritz it with sulfuric acid.
- Put it on your roof for a season as a weather vane.
- Leave it outside in a severe electrical storm.
- Rig it up in front of the spray end of a wood chipper.
- Substitute it for a dart board.
- Hang it from a tree limb and tell all the kiddies in the neighborhood it is a 'new design' pinata for their appropriate action.
- Have baggage handlers at the airport 'do their thing' with it.
- Bury it at a beach for a month or so.

OK, that's all I got. Anyone?

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Sounds more like a, How to quickly Kill your Pristine Condition Strat to me,

All of your suggestions would work for me...except the first one. With 30 years of honest play, my guitar would look pretty much new. My acidity must be pretty much neutral, so the chrome stays the same. I do wipe my guitars down after I play them. Strings and body.

I put my shirttail out when I play, so I don't get a belt rash. I have played the same guitars for 10 years and they still look about new. I make a few misques, but noy many.

I have a 1966 Fender Deluxe Reverb ($237.00 gift from dad) that I have played at countless weddings, beer bars, honky tonks, corportate functions, jams, and used in my home everyday. It looks great. I just have one question for you guys:

How do you beat up your gear so bad???

I was wondering the same thing I also take Super good care of My guitars, Treat them like they are the last ones left.

Every guitar I have ever owned in pristine condition alway remained that way yet there are many players who can't stand the new look of a guitar. They think it should have a played in look to it and/or as has been said on this forum probably a thousand different times, they seem to feel it plays better too.

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