OMG I ALMOST SCRATCHED MY NEW GUITAR! 8X
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Verne Bunsen
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My Black Korina Strat finished in Tobacco Burst recently took a spill off the stand and earned a pretty decent chip. Definitely a bummer.... Glad you dodged the bullet!
wildbill
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I believe it best to take any new build or acquisition and smack it firmly into the nearest door-frame and just get it over with. It is gonna happen unless you hang them in a display case.
Seriously, I try to take care of everything I own including (especially) my tools. Things that get used are subject to wear. It still makes you tear-up when you nick something you have spent hours on getting it perfect.
Seriously, I try to take care of everything I own including (especially) my tools. Things that get used are subject to wear. It still makes you tear-up when you nick something you have spent hours on getting it perfect.
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The first couple/few Warmoth-based guitars I put together used what are sometimes referred to as "coffee table" bodies and necks. Highly figured and/or exotic woods, super-fine finishes, etc. Absolutely gorgeous instruments. They became wallflowers, rarely played due to fear of even the slightest blemish. I eventually sold them, since I don't live in a warehouse-sized vault. Now they're still wallflowers, but at somebody else's house.
I like to keep my guitars looking and playing like new, but I at least want them to be approachable and usable. If you're afraid to touch the thing, what good is it?
Reminds me of a visit I had from a friend years ago when I had a girlfriend living with me who'd brought some furniture with her. One of the pieces was an old Victorian-style couch. She'd spent a pile of money having the thing properly restored, and it was beautiful. At least, inasmuch as it was a piece of art. But, it wasn't really very comfortable, and the fabric wasn't the sort of thing that would wear well.
Anyway, buddy comes in, looks at it, and says "Well, if you can't sit on it, can't sleep on it, and can't f*ck on it, what good is it?" :laughing7:
Made perfect sense. It was just using up valuable living space for nothing. Until you can afford to own and stock a museum, a more practical attitude will likely result in greater happiness.
I like to keep my guitars looking and playing like new, but I at least want them to be approachable and usable. If you're afraid to touch the thing, what good is it?
Reminds me of a visit I had from a friend years ago when I had a girlfriend living with me who'd brought some furniture with her. One of the pieces was an old Victorian-style couch. She'd spent a pile of money having the thing properly restored, and it was beautiful. At least, inasmuch as it was a piece of art. But, it wasn't really very comfortable, and the fabric wasn't the sort of thing that would wear well.
Anyway, buddy comes in, looks at it, and says "Well, if you can't sit on it, can't sleep on it, and can't f*ck on it, what good is it?" :laughing7:
Made perfect sense. It was just using up valuable living space for nothing. Until you can afford to own and stock a museum, a more practical attitude will likely result in greater happiness.
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I got a confession to make... last month's GOTM has any number of warts carefully hidden from the camera with lighting and shot selection.
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True story here: Years ago I had a client who was a touring rocker who was always buying new gear as his band traveled. Literally, he would leave town with a new guitar, and come home weeks later with a different one. Anyway.... he HATED to scratch his guitars and was afraid to play them when new for fear of hurting them. I made an offhand remark once to him that I would gladly break that cherry for him, without charge. So..... Every time he bought a new guitar, he would dutifully bring it in the shop, pick out a tool off the bench, and have me ding or scratch it somewhere insignificant. Usually I would touch it somewhere around a strap button or neck plate (if it was a bolt-on). After my ever-so-slight act of damage, he would put the axe back in the case and go his way with a smile on his face. I don't know how many guitars I dinged for him before he got signed and moved to California - never to return. I wonder if he got someone else to ding his guitars for him out there in La-la land.
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