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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.

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.
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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... :P :P :P
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Was the chick impressed? :oops:

Yeah...but then she felt bad that I broke my guitar......Let's just say the night ended well. 8) :D


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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 :D


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.

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Rock n' Roll... 8)

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Bloody hell...lol


Yup, we didn't do things by halves in our young days. :lol:

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LOL....CC :D :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


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Celtic Cyclonus wrote:
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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 :D


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.

:oops: :oops: :oops:

Rock n' Roll... 8)

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Bloody hell...lol


Yup, we didn't do things by halves in our young days. :lol:

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yeah, that was the same lp. ya b@ll1x ye! ah well, i'd have prob have ended up with a gibson lp rather than a tele if ya hadn't. so, thanks, in some weird way :lol: :lol:

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I would never have thrown a Fender, not even in those days. Fate my man, fate..

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sometimes too much Powers Wiskey will put a boot to it...lol :D :lol:


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sometimes too much Powers Wiskey will put a boot to it...lol :D :lol:


Or not enough sometimes too! :lol:

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I can only say don't damage your guitars. If you feel frustrated or anything put the guitar down and come back to it later. There is this thing called karma and its affect on the person damaging the instrument can last a very long time. I know I'm just not telling what happened.

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Solid Body Love Songs wrote:
I can only say don't damage your guitars. If you feel frustrated or anything put the guitar down and come back to it later. There is this thing called karma and its affect on the person damaging the instrument can last a very long time. I know I'm just not telling what happened.


It was a half wrecked, cheap LP copy and were only about 20 at the time and full of booze.

I wouldnt dare do that now. :lol: And never with a good guitar.

Its funny lookin back on it but I'm interested now Solid bro? What did you do?

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I'll just say that it was two guitars and that's why I think the effect was so long lasting. So much for amateur remodeling.

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Hmm...first one that comes to mind is a strap problem too. I was in my room, putting my guitar on and thought the strap was on. I let go and the guitar plummeted and crashed in the hardwood floor. Not too much damage thankfully.

Another time was when I let my roommate back in college try out my guitar. He was new to guitars at the time and wasn't really paying attention. He spun around quickly and smashed the headstock into my bedpost. Again, not much damage but my heart was racing when it happened.

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I'll just say that it was two guitars and thats why the effect was so long lasting (guessing of course) and it was frustration + too much fire water and biscuits.


Fire water and biscuits can do that to a man. The demons come out everywhere except the fingertips.

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Well me, I'm just here hangin on, its my only place to stay.
At least for now anyway.
I worked to hard for my illusions just to throw them all away....''

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BastardN wrote:
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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... :P :P :P
Slainte.......N


Here I am and thank you!

I could write a book on this subject. My own personal instruments, not so much though. The worst thing I can recollect was in 1969 when I played street softball with my '67 Harmony Stratotone with OEM Roe-DeArmond pickups. Man, that shattered REALLY well!!

The book I could write is what players over the years have asked me to do to many a (now) priceless instrument.

Here are a mere few examples. Note that the reason why I agreed to these is because if I didn't, someone else would. The owners were adamant on these tasks being done regardless of devalue issues which was THOROUGHLY explained to them. Consequently, either I did it and made the money or someone else would but at least I did it 'perfectly' to the extent possible:

Create a swimming pool rout in a '65 SG Standard so the owner could install a middle humbucker himself in what he thought would be the sweet spot along the 'track'. He then brought it back to me to install and wire a larger on/off switch for this pickup directly to the toggle switch.

Rout an OEM Cherry Red 1956 Gibson LP Standard from the Soap Bar cutouts to full sized humbucker routs and install them. Never heard of an OEM Cherry Red one? This was the first and last one I ever saw!

Remove a real PAF out of an old Gibson Howard Roberts and replace it with a Duncan JB. I was given the PAF for my trouble because the owner couldn't stand it.

Install a P-Bass pickup in the, "neck positon" of a 1968 Telecaster Bass and wire it to be on at all times with the OEM single coil.

Remove the frets out of a '56 Strat and fill in the fret slots. Remove the nut and replace it with a threaded rod similar to the bridge saddles of an old Tele. The owner wanted to make it a fretless guitar for slide playing with higher action.

I can't tell you how many Strats and Les Pauls I've had to destroy with Floyd and Kahler installations.

Grind the frets absolutely flat and polish them in a Gibson L6S because the owner wanted it to play more like the old, "Fretless Wonder" Gibson LP Customs.

Install as many Guild Bass humbuckers as would fit from neck to bridge in a '68 Gibson EB-3-L and wire them straight to the output jack, bypassing the controls; I was able to fit four.

Install Rickenbacker "Toaster" pickups ON, not IN, a '57 Gibson Melody Maker.

And this sickening list goes on and on.

"Viva La Difference" (I guess.) :roll:

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Ok this is stupid, but you have to understand that I was a total noobie when I did this.

I was 14 when I got my first electric guitar...It was a Strat copy, no name on the headstock, SSS, maple neck. Anyways, I thought the neck was concaved and I went to make it straight. I adjusted the truss rod to take the relief off the neck...Stupid on several levels, as I know know. I ended up warping the neck so bad that is was never playable without serious buzzing. I am sure that it would never intonate again (although at that time I did not even know what intonation meant).

To this day (24 years later) I refuse to mess with the truss rod, even though I have a lot more knowledge than I did back then. It did bring me to my next guitar which was a Jackson V. Awesome guitar. That leads me to my 2nd stupidest thing I ever did with a guitar, but that is another story all together.

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Celtic Cyclonus wrote:
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I'll just say that it was two guitars and thats why the effect was so long lasting (guessing of course) and it was frustration + too much fire water and biscuits.


Fire water and biscuits can do that to a man. The demons come out everywhere except the fingertips.

''We live and learn and then sometimes it's best to walk away.
Well me, I'm just here hangin on, its my only place to stay.
At least for now anyway.
I worked to hard for my illusions just to throw them all away....''

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the start of a good rocker! :D

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