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

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

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

LOL....CC

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

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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

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

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

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

Or not enough sometimes too!

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 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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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

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. And never with a good guitar.

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

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'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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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

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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Free & Easy Down the Road I Go

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....''

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

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.)

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You dig?

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.

RK

the start of a good rocker!

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.