Laying your guitar down

[rickcard71]

Is it ok on the neck to lay your guitar on its back with the headstock and body touching the ground? I heard it isn't.

[ryanb]

Sure it's OK, as long as nobody stands or sits on the neck at the time. The neck already has a couple hundred pounds of string tension on it. A couple more pounds isn't going to bother the neck at all. It may go slightly out of tuning, but will return when you pick it up. It's more prone to scratches and accidents though, so it probably isn't a good thing to do as a regular practice.

[Foulacy]

just don't leave it like that for very long. if u put it like that for 10 minutes don't worry about it.

[Pursuit]

It probably won't damage the guitar (although I still wouldn't do it jsut in case). Two of the guitarists in our youth group lean their guitars by the neck against foldback amps. Doesn't damage the guitar and at the time there's no-one on stage to step on them. If there's people around though, be careful about it.

[Shredder87]

Best using a stand in all cases.

Bass players in my experience seem strangely averse to the concept of the guitar stand, instead laying the bass down anywhere they can (or leaving it balancing perilously against an amp or chair) and then wondering why it gets broken all the time.

'87

[Ad_Astra]

Depends how you lay it down. Here's what happened to me laying the guitar down...

[kaizzen]

Ad_Astra did someone step on it?

Unfortunate waste of a neck/wood

[Ad_Astra]

Originally Posted by kaizzen

Ad_Astra did someone step on it?

Unfortunate waste of a neck/wood

Nah, it fell down from it's stand while cleaning. Insurance covered it and I got to keep the guitar. I'm repairing it at the moment. I've glued the headstock back and routed some wood off the back of the neck/headstock and will place there a new piece of wood to hold it still and sand it to match the neck.