What is the dumbest thing you have ever done to one of your guitars!?!?
I know most of us can think back to at least one "DOH" moment where you did something to a guitar.


I have sold a few I really regret, but the dumbest was assuming my strap was on, at a gig and reallly getting into the "moment". I had just swithced guitars and the next song was strating. The guitar hit a mike stand bottom and took a big chunk out of the body. And I looked pretty stoooopid. I laughed it off, and got ragged on a bit from the guys in the band. Looking back it was pretty funny. Needless to say... I have strap locks on all of my guitars now.....

So what was yours?

Again a strap problem. I was jamming in my room and the bottom end gave way and didn't just hit the floor, it hit a chunky crystal ashtray giving her a big chip at the bottom.

Bought strap locks the next day.....

The worst is when I had my uncles Tele I learned on and a 5h1tty Les Paul copy out at a party that got gatecrashed when I was 16. The Tele got smashed. The LP was left alone. I wont get over that as long as I live and it was nearly 12 years ago.

CC

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Fender Stratocaster (parts build)
Fender Telecaster 72 Custom RI
Fender Telecoustic Deluxe
Gretsch Electromatic Pro-Jet
Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
Gibson ES-135
Zenith Type-17
Marshall 70's JMP Superbass 100w
Blackstar HT-5

The dumbest thing I've done with a guitar? This:

http://www.fender.com/community/forums/ ... hp?t=30747

...Sorry - that was shameless of me.

Cheers - C

LOLOLOLOL......your'e killin' me Ceri...lol.
I have been following that thread religiously.And learning alot.

Had a Ephiphone strat copy, screwed the trem screws all the way in with no idea what I was doing. A fine guitar to practice on.

So was there any end result there Ceri?

CC

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Fender Stratocaster (parts build)
Fender Telecaster 72 Custom RI
Fender Telecoustic Deluxe
Gretsch Electromatic Pro-Jet
Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
Gibson ES-135
Zenith Type-17
Marshall 70's JMP Superbass 100w
Blackstar HT-5

I set a quite lovely acoustic down on a sofa, sound harmless right?
Well it was sat on, by a pirate.
The neck snapped clean off.

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Rated "M" for meaty.

That's weird cause my wife sat on my brother-in -law's Gibson Hummingbird about 20 years ago. He says he's forgiven us but I know he still thinks about it. Besides that I guess it's selling several guitars when I was much younger that would fetch some nice coin nowadays!!

I had been playing guitar for a few months and decided that my Squier Strat (at the time it was my only guitar) had action that was too high. So I took an allen wrench to it and gave it a "set up". I even messed with the truss rod. The end result was worse than what it started out with.

Later, I took it to my tech and when he saw it he looked at me in horror and asked who set up the guitar. I told him I had tried and he literally started laughing. I guess he thought a monkey did it. Now I ask him before I make any adjustments to it.

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I was 14 and playing w/ my 80s Kramer 6000St. Took it off for a sec and it dropepd to the ground and the head of the headstock hit first and snapped right off. Fast forward 9 years (2004). I had replaced the neck and the jack wasn't working. I got pissed (must have been having a bad day) and threw it on the floor top side down. Snap goes the headstock. I still don't have a good neck for it but replaced the jack. I'll get around to fixing it again probably next year. I keep buying more guitars rather than a new neck.

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Live guitars: 2009 LTD Truckster, 1989 Strat Plus, 2001 Am Standard Strat, 1996 MIJ Jaguar, 2007 Gibson Explorer 76 reissue, 1999 Ibanez RG7621, LTD MH-301, LTD FM400, 1999 Jackson Kelly, Mystery Les Paul, Hamer Chaparel, Fender FM 62SCE A/E Mandolin

I did that to my very first guitar....a Crestline MIJ SG copy. I dropped it in the backyard when I was 15, I was trying to impress a chick....ugggghhh.
lol....
I'm surprised my pal Martian hasn't dropped in.
He gives some really inteligent insight . He has helped me to not do dumb things to a few guitars...., I'm curious to hear what he has.. 'cause we all start somewere...
Slainte.......N

strap also - smacked my guitar off of a table. the table came off worse. but the worst was just after i got my first guitar - a lp replica, and i nearly slipped on the edge of the hole in my attic where our ladder came up as i was crossing over. down i went, but i managed to take my guitar off as i was falling and made sure she stayed up there while i bounced off the ladder. just a few wee marks. no real damage. to the guitar that is. I was wrecked

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thought of you tonight, in simple twists and turns, incarcerated here, i'm handcuffed to your world, your innocence is cruel, coquettish and arcane, but i need it all the same

Was the chick impressed?

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Live guitars: 2009 LTD Truckster, 1989 Strat Plus, 2001 Am Standard Strat, 1996 MIJ Jaguar, 2007 Gibson Explorer 76 reissue, 1999 Ibanez RG7621, LTD MH-301, LTD FM400, 1999 Jackson Kelly, Mystery Les Paul, Hamer Chaparel, Fender FM 62SCE A/E Mandolin

Another one guys was binterz and I were having a crazy argument about 8 or 9 years ago. I launched that guitar at his head, he ducked and it hit the wall. Smashed to pieces.



Rock n' Roll...

CC

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Fender Stratocaster (parts build)
Fender Telecaster 72 Custom RI
Fender Telecoustic Deluxe
Gretsch Electromatic Pro-Jet
Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
Gibson ES-135
Zenith Type-17
Marshall 70's JMP Superbass 100w
Blackstar HT-5

Bloody hell...lol