[knowbody]

Lets hear all the horror stories of your axes first damaging blows.
Mine came from a playful roomate. I asked for my lighter... instead of handing it to me, he decided 80 MPH was an apprioate speed to throw it at me . He hit the jem, I hit the ceiling then threw the first hard thing I could find at his bass... can't even remember what I threw now. but he just winced and said... "I deserve that."
all the other dings were easy after that. but that one hurt badly.

 

[Onimacaroni]

My drummer fell on it.

 

[brianxtr]

now the drummer is dead?

 

[Onimacaroni]

now the drummer is dead?

Nope, just infertile

 

[JJEMMER777]

In all the years if giging and jamming with Jem's, I'm happy to say "NO WAR STORIES"

*knocks on wood* However, before I started buying Jems, I did own a Jackson Pro Fusion FF. That was a sweet guitar. I let a friend play it and when he was done he put it back in the guitar stand (wrong) It fell out of the guitar stand onto a cement floor and the neck broke right out of the pocket.

Did I kill him???? Well...trust me......I wanted to, but two wrongs don't make a right, knowbody

Now, other than my one friend and guitarst in the band, I don't let anyone play or touch my guitars anymore, no matter how hard they whine!

Lesson learned

Nope, just infertile

Lol....falling on guitars can prove to be very painful :lol:

 

[OLIE_ROCKS_THE_80'S]

In all the years if giging and jamming with Jem's, I'm happy to say "NO WAR STORIES"

*knocks on wood* However, before I started buying Jems, I did own a Jackson Pro Fusion FF. That was a sweet guitar. I let a friend play it and when he was done he put it back in the guitar stand (wrong) It fell out of the guitar stand onto a cement floor and the neck broke right out of the pocket.

Did I kill him???? Well...trust me......I wanted to, but two wrongs don't make a right, knowbody

Now, other than my one friend and guitarst in the band, I don't let anyone play or touch my guitars anymore, no matter how hard they whine!

Lesson learned

Lol....falling on guitars can prove to be very painful :lol:

Well said Jim!!! Guitars are like women you just can't let anyone borrow them!!! :wink:

 

[knowbody]

I will say this Jim... it was not a well thought out manuever in which I hoped to regain something... it was more along the lines of a reflex. I don't regret it though. and he and I have moved past it. still in the same band together. still playing the same main instruments.

 

[JJEMMER777]

Well said Jim!!! Guitars are like women you just can't let anyone borrow them!!! :wink:

Thanks

You know, I actually would have figured you'd of started this thread, Olie, since you have your own cable special with the same title!! :razz:

You've probably got a million to tell, right???

I will say this Jim... it was not a well thought out manuever in which I hoped to regain something... it was more along the lines of a reflex.

Oh I hear ya and I completely understand, bro. I am sure it was an instantaneous reaction brought on by pure anger!!

I'm actually not sure I'd be able to control myself from breaking someones arm if they were stupid enough to throw something at and ding one of my babies!

I don't even want to think about that:lol:

 

[AirGuitar]

No big story for me... just an annoying one! (Well it was for me!)

I took my EBMM JP to a guitar lesson and while i was getting it out of the case, my car keys fell out of my shirt pocket and landed on the guitar! They left 3 small dings on the front, which annoyed me a lot, but it'll be a lot easier to accept anymore damage on it now!

 

[OLIE_ROCKS_THE_80'S]

Thanks

You know, I actually would have figured you'd of started this thread, Olie, since you have your own cable special with the same title!! :razz:

You've probably got a million to tell, right???

Nah! sorry Jimmy don't have many to tell, as I said before in another thread I take care of my axes like gold!!! of course some have suffered minor accidents which are inevitable but I have always restored/repaired them to keep them looking like new. I can't stand relics!!!!! No offense to anyone who likes 'em :wink:

 

[brothersnowgone]

My main axe right now (beater 91' 570) has dozens of pretty big dings and scrapes, but most of them were there before I bought it (for $110 ). But the biggest ding in it is all my fault. I was working on another guitar making minor adjustment and so on, about to work on this one and it was rested on it's face on my bed. Right as I stood from my computer seat to put the guitar I was working on in a stand, I forgot I had a pair of dikes on my lap. They were friggin huge heavy duty dikes and they fell from my lap hitting the back of my guitar with the pointiest, most exposed part of the bottom of the handles. Needless to say it left a pretty wicked dent. It's easily 3 or 4mm into the gutar and about the same around. I said **** pretty loud and then I thanked god it was the one guitar I don't feel super bad about chipping or dinging. Now I know to keep only one guitar out of it's stand at a time lol...

 

[Ranz 777]

I just told the story of the first ding in my first UV on another thread. But since I started playing at age 16, and now Im 41, I have quite a few "war stories" to tell...............unfortunatley.
My old RG550........one night on stage. I had a wireless, so I was free to run around the dance floor, flirt with chics & what not. Well.......during one song, White Lions version of Radar Love if Im not mistaken, I thought it would be a good idea to run off stage during my "big" solo, and slide across the dance floor on my knees........total MTV moment of influence!
I saw the bass players wife dancing, so I thought I would slide up behind her. As I hit the floor at blistering speed, guitar screaming, I had no idea her husband was behind her. As they spun around, him armed with a Steinberger boat oar bass, they never saw me coming. I slid right into him from behind, taking his legs right out from under him. I had no idea Steinberger built such a heavy bass until it hit me in the side of the face. It bounced off my face and down onto my RG, denting & chipping it badly. A tangled mess of arms, legs, hair...........but we never missed a note..............
Man I miss those days!........... :lol:

 

[knowbody]

Ranz.
That is an AWESOME story.
Rock On!

Tony

 

[brothersnowgone]

Ranz.
That is an AWESOME story.
Rock On!

Tony

+1 pretty cool he still kept right on playing lol!

 

[jaxadam]

My older brother grabbed my priceless Hondo and put his foot right through it at the neck joint.

 

[guitvai1]

when I was 16 and just saved up for my Kramer American $1200 my dad decided to run the vacuum into it taking out a huge chunk of paint.

 

[crevis]

My 570 was on its stand and the 270 (heavy piece of junk) was leaning on the table, I bumped the 270 and it fell face first toward the 570, the high E sliced two chunks out of the soft basswood like a hot knife through butter

So anyone who says MIJ basswood isnt fragile, it is.

 

[Josh_P]

Les Paul
Christmas 1996 (16 yrs old) I was BEGGING my parents to buy me a les paul but they just wouldn't budge. We opened all the presents and were laying on the couch basking in the wrapping paper. About an hour later my dad asked me to go get him a soda from the machine in our basement. (little did I know that a brand new LP studio was awaiting behind the basement door in our hallway). the door swung both ways and we ALWAYS opened it from the north side but nooooooo, not this time. I slammed the door into the brand new LP and put a nice dent in the body. My ol man about shat himself.

Strat
My pristine 86' deluxe strat was literally flawless. I was playing ZZ Top's Tush at a gig and smashed the slide into my lower horn while executing an over exaggerated neck slide. It's has a nice concave dent now and in a place that I have to look at the damn thing every time I play it.

PRS Cust 22
I was in full metal mode at a gig and fell into a jumbo EV monitor (the ones with the metal grills) It looked as if someone took a waffle iron to the tail of it.

PRS Cust 24
I had JUST bought the guitar brand new.. Dead mint. I take it to band practice proud as can be. Our drummer strapped it on to check it out. When he was finished he raised the guitar up to get the strap off his neck and slammed the headstock into the basement ceiling. I almost cried however it was worth the infinite guilt and leverage I had against him Every time we were in an argument I would always reference the incident and win ha ha.

Ibanez PGM
This happened last week... gggrrrrr. I was putting my PGM back in the 5 guitar rack in my jam room. When I lowered it down into the rack it hit my 550's volume knob and put a nice little dumb ass mark on the tail. If it would've been any other guitar it probably wouldn't have left a mark but that basswood is super soft.

ha, wow I suck......

 

[Ranz 777]

LOL!!!
Ok.......Ive got another one.........
Same guitar.......my old RG550. We were playing a biker bar one night. Very cool rowdy kinda place. When ever a band played Born to be wild, they would ride their Harleys thru the back door, across the dance floor, thru the pool tables and right out the front door. I was standing on some chics table, jamming away. Well, let me rephrase. I had one foot on her table, and one foot on the back of the bench seat. She jumps up on the table with me with her mug of beer.........yeah.........she was half lit off her *ss, and not bad lookin for a drunk biker chic.........anyway, she wraps her arm around me, and starts pouring beer in my mouth, which.........was actually pouring every where but my mouth. All over my face, my shirt, and ultimately......my guitar.
At the exact same moment the beer hit my guitar, the bass player, who was still onstage, and the same bass player from previous story, tripped over my pedals.......unplugging me. I didnt know that. All I knew is this crazy b*tch dumped beer all over my guitar and now it wasnt working. I fleww off the table towards the stage. On my way to the stage I looked back. The table was upside down.........and the girl was sprawled out all over the floor in a pool of beer. "Eh" I didnt care.......I was worried about my guitar. I soon saw I was unplugged and continued on jammin. Later........upon reflection of the night with the other guitarist, who had witnessed the entire event, in a belly ache of laughter told me, that when I jumped off the table, the counter balance was gone. The table did one & a half flips throwing the chic to the ground.........face first in the same beer she had poured all over me.
I know that was a long story..........but I hope y'all enjoy it........
As far as a scar on my guitar?........I cleaned it, but never lost that stale beer smell.......... :lol:

 

[crevis]

Another bad one was I was putting my dad's takimine in its case and the lid dropped before I had it in there and the lock smacked it up the top of the back side of it.