I was walking with my new strat and the guitar strap ripped off causing the body to crash onto the floor... leaving me with a 1.5sqr inch chip down to the wood at the base of the body.

Can anyone give me some advise on repairing the body?

Thanks,
Luke

Welcome to the Forum.


My personal opinion is to leave it alone, chalk it up to experience, consider it adding to the character of the guitar and then just play it.

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I didn't Lose my mind, I traded it for this guitar.

Sorry to say: Join the Club!

We're happy to have you as a member of the Chipped Strat Society!

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Welcome to the forum. As Chet said, It's part of it. Adds a story and character to the instrument. Most of us have them on ours also.

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Yep, Done that! The start of your new Road Worn strat. getting its first badge of Honor. I am with Chet on this play it and enjoy.

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Welcome to the club, you could almost buy a new one for what it would cost to fix a minor flaw. Embrace the flaws and call them character!

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I thought all Strats had that? Got mine done in 88!! Then again a few years later! Locking strap nuts might be an option, though I've never used them on a Fender guitar.

I've said it a million times: If one is going to use one's guitar, stuff is going to happen to it even under the best of care. The only way it can be kept looking new is for it to be put it in an hermetically sealed, bullet proof glass case where it is reverently genuflected to as one passes by.

This mishap is how your guitar begins the process of receiving genuine, "Road Worn/Relic" status.

(I do sympathize/empathize with you though.)

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That is a bummer. But like everyone's said, happens to the best.

Had a nightmare a few weeks ago that I'd dropped my Les Paul and snapped the head off.

Still creeps me out just thinking about it.

If you decide to live with it, like all suggest...maybe you could make up a better story. Saving Nuns, or juking and blocking a brick from a drunk brick chucker.

Not to keep beating on this horse but...where's my stick...

As others have said, happens to the best of us. My older guitars from my youth have many scares of this nature. My newer guitars...or at least my main guitars have strap locks. I've also gotten much better at "holding" and "catching" over the years. Last week at practice, we were doing some acoustic tunes and the battery in my Ovation was dead so I had to switch to my studio acoustic (Seagull S-6) and sure enough the strap came of while I was playing....I kept playing while holding the guitar as I back up to my bar stool to sit down and finish the tune.

I used to try and "fix" the nicks and chips on my guitars when I was younger as I really don't like the "worn/relic" look but as I've gotten older, I've simply learned to live with them. Personally I just consider it part of the learning process any more.

I do highly recommend strap locks....I use the Schaller's personally. Wonderful little devices and if you're like me and don't like to see your instrument all banged up, they are a very worthwhile investment.


Just my $.02 worth,
Jim

Congratulations, you just added to the value of your guitar. Custom shop charges big bucks to do stuff like that.

Congratulations, you just added to the value of your guitar. Custom shop charges big bucks to do stuff like that.

Yes, I confess I have Schaller strap locks on my Gibson ES 355 (a) because it's worth a fortune and especially (b) because its own strap buttons appear designed to slip the strap at any moment. But I'm highly impressed with the Schallers - a good investment of a coupla quid/dollars.

OK Everybody says live with it and I agree but if you insist on "fixing" it take it to a good luthier and he'll charge you a couple of hundred dollars to fix it and you'll still know its there...

At least it wasn't deliberate. I feel your pain

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