Has anyone here thrown away...

[hixmix]

a guitar?

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[zazz]

i always give em away ...just gave an ibanez roadster and amp to my nephew...gave a 12 string yamaha to my uncle in law.

It blew me away when i went round to his house and he said it was his favourite. Well i didnt know he had another guitar ...he said yeah some old thing that has been kicking around the house for years. It turns out to be a vintage Martin and he doesnt even know it.....somebody also gave that to him . Should have done a swap....plays like a dream.

Also just found an old selmer tube amp from the sixties on the way home from the pub...it was on the street ..next to the bins in the rain. I was amazed when i plugged it in and it worked ...sounded amazing....that ended up in some boutique pratice amp combo...now sold.

[Light]

Nope. If they suck that bad, I give them to the repair school at the Redwing Technical College in Redwing, Minnesota. They always need guitars to practice on, and cheap shitty guitars are much better than nice ones.


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[John Mayes]

Well the second guitar I ever made. It was hideous. Did not look too bad, but when I built it I did not know that much about humidity so it was built under 80% humidity in the oklahoma summer. When I moved to maine and the humidity dropped to around 15% the whole thing just caved. It was not a huge loss anyway as I screwed up placing the saddle and the intonation was way off and you couldn't play past the 7th fret without your ears screaming "OUT OF TUNE!" Soooooooo........

I took off the nice gold schaller tuners, and let my wife bash it on the ground. It took 4-5 good whacks to break it in half but then faded quickly after that. Mucho fun.

[apl]

There was this really wierd Vietnamese acoustic with no truss rod, 1/4" action, bad paint, etc., that I picked up at a pawn shop for $20 or so just because it was so weird. It was a piece of crap so I pitched it when I got tire of it. It was in no way involved in the song in my signature line.

[Agtronic]

No way! I even have this one fake Martin, (Marlin) and it has the bridge broken right off, no tuners etc ... I still can't throw it away.

[crazydoc]

No way. But I've found guitars and parts of guitars in people's trash cans and dumpsters.

[grn]

if you want to throw one away to me, that would be fine

I've chopped an old broken spanish guitar into 5 cm slices with a circularsaw and glued them together in a staggered fashion. I gave it to a friend as a surprise gift.

[Jim Marquard]

I just threw one away about a month and a half ago. My apartment had been hit by a tornado and it dropped a chimney on my bed. I had been playing my 12-string on the bed about an hour earlier and left it on the bed to go make dinner. My bedroom was the only room hurt by the tornado. The guys fixing my roof said that the largest piece of guitar that they found was about 2 x 2" big. Never mess around with mother nature, I guess.

Peace, Jim

[EddieRay]

I turned a junker classical guitar into a tip jar rather than throw it away. I can always find some little "experiement" to try.

[philboyd studge]

I only threw out the ones I smashed.

[Dani Pace]

I've given away a few( some weren't that bad either,) but most of the junkers have wound up in my "spare parts department." I've even picked up several from junk stores and flea markets just for parts. When everything seems used up, I can always put a clock in the shell or make a planter out of whatever is left, a little imagination goes a long way.