Your very first Ding

cvilleira · **Posted:** Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:49 pm

I don't even remember the first ding. Long ago.

wilburcook · **Joined:** Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:45 pm **Posts:** 1271

Twelvebar wrote:

wilburcook wrote:

Mine went like this, we were playing this Road House and the Drummer was at his best so I turned to give him a nod. Just as I did his high hat fell and it was a direct hit on may Bass. It left a deep mark about an inch or so long. We keept on playing and he was more uoset than I was, I just said It's no big deal you just got her cherry. :lol:

I did that on one of my guitars, right on the butt of the lower bout. Left a nice gouge, actually into the wood. The drummer also felt worse than me. I didn't realize how bad it was 'til the next day. he told me he saw a piece of wood fall out.

It was a cheapo guitar I only used for a backup, but he thought it was expensive.

that said, dinging your guitar reminds us that at the end of the day guitars are just tools, not living things. Sometimes i think we tend to personify them, and treat them like some mystic magical thing.

Very well said.

Celtic Cyclonus · **Posted:** Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:30 pm

I have loads of 'dings' (dents here in U.K.) on my 72 Custom RI. The first one was more like a chunk and used to bother me but as I got more and more over the years the guitar just became more alive for me.

Each tells a story and don't bother me at all any more. I HATE my guitar being dirty though. That 5h1t I just can't abide and I clean my guitars all the time but dents do not annoy me.

CC

rkreisher · **Posted:** Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:19 pm

STLBlues wrote:

rkreisher wrote:

STLBlues wrote:

When I got my first scratch on my relic strat, I couldn't sleep for days.

Really? Was it reliced before the scratch? Didn't it add more character to the guitar? Just wondering.

RK

It was a brand new relic strat. It freaked me out because it was brand new and it was the first non factory scratch I got on it. It still bothers me. :cry:

ok.

rk

eyecandy · **Joined:** Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:10 am **Posts:** 1086

oh well.. seems like we can never avoid dings and dents... its been like a week now I'm feeling a lot better and well

"PLAY ON"

eddytanhh · **Joined:** Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:35 am **Posts:** 388

the first one when it dropped from the guitar stand
it was near the end strap pin
the second one was when i wanted to keep it back to the case
after music teacher interview in a music school
accidentally knocked the headstock against the piano
the lady boss was something like " lucky nothing happened, if you
scratch my piano, you will not afford to compensate"

stratmansteve · **Posted:** Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:59 pm

stratmansteve wrote:

The first "ding" on my beloved '71 Mustang was more of a serious dent. I used to play sitting on the corner of my bed. The bed had short, rectangular posts at the foot. One day the guitar slipped out of my hands and the edge of it hit the corner of the post. It created a very distinctive 3-sided dent. I was very upset at the time -- the Mustang being my prized possession -- but if I am fortunate enough to come across that guitar again, I'll know it's really her.

I should explain -- I sold the guitar back in the '70s. Ever since the mid-90s, I've been trying to track it down again so that's the reason for the statement "I'll know it's really her".

Blackiestrat · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:37 pm

I Bought a Brand-new 3 tone sunburst from Manny's Music about a month before they closed, and I put a nice deep scratch about an inch long in the finish near the neck while I was taking the pickguard off to see underneath. I'm still kicking myself for it. My first electric, too.

MANNY'S IS DEAD---LONG LIVE MANNY'S!!!!!!!!!

Celtic Cyclonus · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:49 pm

Blackiestrat wrote:

I Bought a Brand-new 3 tone sunburst from Manny's Music about a month before they closed, and I put a nice deep scratch about an inch long in the finish near the neck while I was taking the pickguard off to see underneath. I'm still kicking myself for it. My first electric, too.

MANNY'S IS DEAD---LONG LIVE MANNY'S!!!!!!!!!

I loved Manny's. I cant believe that along with the WTC and C.B.G.B.'s it's gone. Seems NYC is vanishing. Next time I pop over there'll be nothin but a bunch of native American's with a load of trinket's.

CC

xTAB3Nx · **Joined:** Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:40 pm **Posts:** 205

Can proudly say i've been playing for a year and i don't have a ding yet!

mike26 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 5:21 pm

Celtic Cyclonus wrote:

Blackiestrat wrote:

I Bought a Brand-new 3 tone sunburst from Manny's Music about a month before they closed, and I put a nice deep scratch about an inch long in the finish near the neck while I was taking the pickguard off to see underneath. I'm still kicking myself for it. My first electric, too.

MANNY'S IS DEAD---LONG LIVE MANNY'S!!!!!!!!!

I loved Manny's. I cant believe that along with the WTC and C.B.G.B.'s it's gone. Seems NYC is vanishing. Next time I pop over there'll be nothin but a bunch of native American's with a load of trinket's.

CC

Manny's was an incredible store! Every time I went there I just never wanted to leave. Such an amazing and magical place.

I've more than a few dings on my first Strat and I can't remember at all how it happened. I'm also not even sure which one was the first one.

stryder1017 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:59 pm

i had mine about a week ago, fell off my bed on my floor, there's a little ding on the bottom

philip602 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:38 pm

I wouldn't remember except that it happened in a dramatic way. My first band had decided to get serious and after a while, the singer and drummer decided that I and the rhythm player had to have more stage presence and a few "moves." The bass player was okay just standing in the back.

So the next gig the other guitarist and I ... both pretty uncoordinated and clumsy on our feet are trying to dance and shuffle around like real rock stars. I should also point that I was 5'5" and weighed about 120 pounds. The rhythm guitarist was 6'6" and around 260 and eventually the inevitable happened.

We collided in the middle of the stage. Given his size, weight and the laws of physics, I was the object that recoiled. So I was later told, I dropped like a rock after my guitar flew up hit me in the head, flew off, hit the bass player, bounced off him, hit the gym floor, bounced again and stopped.

It was a school dance, so some teacher did some first aid, I was revived and after a short break I thought "OHHHH CRAP ... MY GUITAR." There it was, right where it landed and with a modest sized chunk out of the body. I'd babied it (my first guitar ever) for the 9 months roughly that I'd owned it. Now there it was, dead ... a victim of stage presence ... with a huge chunk lying somewhere in the gym.

But as my mom always said, The Show Must Go On, so once my head stopped spinning a little, I picked it back up, plugged in and being a Fender, it still worked. We finished the gig and that was it for me and stage moves. (The chunk out also led to my ill-fated decision to repair and refinish the guitar a few months later.)

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