Ding!

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This ever happen to you? You hand your flawless, expensive guitar to an experienced player and he/she accidentally bangs it into somthing giving it a nice prominent ding?

I once let a guitarist play my brand new Martin HD-35 and he banged it into a chair leaving a nice quarter inch long ding on the binding.
 
I've never owned an instrument that's worth a damn, but I do know what you are talking about. My friend had a nice PRS that got dinged when he let someone play around with it. I think nice things are just magnets for dings. Kinda like how new windshields are magnets for cracks. (at least in Illinois they are.)
 
Yes and it sucks!

I was playin' and the other guitarist decides that it would be cool to...Slide the neck{strings first} of his guitar on the neck {strings} my shiney new guitar..Puting a "bevel" on my fretboard....The look on his face when he saw what he did..Audience might have dug it..I for one did not:rolleyes:





Don
 
I just repainted a guitar and when I was leveling the frets, I dropped the file (head hanging here). Of course it put a ding in, took a chip out down to the primer. And it is specialized paint where no touch up is available.

This all happened 2 days ago. I am still bumming!!
 
juststartingout said:
I just repainted a guitar and when I was leveling the frets, I dropped the file (head hanging here). Of course it put a ding in, took a chip out down to the primer. And it is specialized paint where no touch up is available.

This all happened 2 days ago. I am still bumming!!
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One of the joys of nitrocellulose lacquer is that you can always repair dings like that. The last guitar I built I ended up dropping a pickup on it, and got a big ding in it. You could never find it now. That is way I love nitro.

That is also one of the reasons we professionals get paid what we do when we are working on a guitar.


Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
Light

"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi [/B][/QUOTE]

Dings are not "evil" or "immoral". They just make you wince.

Shit happens.
 
hixmix said:
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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
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Dings are not "evil" or "immoral". They just make you wince.

Shit happens.

Dings are god like.

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It's a honky tonk scar......

nothing more. Thats how new stuff turns into really cool beat up vintage.

I would much rather have a guitar with honky tonk scars over a mint one. It means it was used for playing and not for looking at.
 
hixmix said:
This ever happen to you? You hand your flawless, expensive dildo to an experienced player and he/she accidentally bangs it into somthing giving it a nice prominent ding?

I once let a transexual use my brand new Super-Studded Vibro-King and he banged it into a chair leaving a nice quarter inch long ding on the head.
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:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
I once dinged a cymbal, then I realized it was what I was supposed to do with it...

My guitars are POS's for the most part...
Hopefully this will change in the next year or so...
 
buck-a-roony62-

Do not juvenile posts, like yours above, belong in the cave?:D
 
SemiCrazy said:

I would much rather have a guitar with honky tonk scars over a mint one. It means it was used for playing and not for looking at.
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I hear you. Though we don't have to be happy when it happens. Especially if your only role in the ding was to hand the guitar to someone else. My six-string has two. One from picking up the case without closing the clasps. Guitar falls out onto the lid of the case, ding.

I took it in, and was told to live with it, and I have. What gets me worse are the thousands of faint scratches that are on the finish from taking off and replacing the sound-hole cover attached to the Dampit humidifier. (You have to look to see them. When I saw what the humidifier was doing to the finish, I switched to Planet Waves (between the strings).
 
SemiCrazy said:
It's a honky tonk scar......

nothing more. Thats how new stuff turns into really cool beat up vintage.

I would much rather have a guitar with honky tonk scars over a mint one. It means it was used for playing and not for looking at.
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Yea, I would like to have Stevie Ray's #1. Now those are battle scars.
 
Hey Just,

Check out Stevie Vaugh Live at El Macombo VHS DVD to see how the "Old Lady" got some of those honky tonk scars.


I've always said: "Stevie didn't play his guitars, he raped them."
 
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