First Guitar Disasters!
First Guitar Disasters!
We all started somewhere...what was your first axe?
I started with a Chines made Kapok 3/4 acoustic. It had been in the family about 30 years before I got it, about 25 years ago! It started out with nylon strings, then I decided that it needed better tone, so i threw on a used set of 10-guage electric steels. Oddly enough, the bridge ripped off the body...
So tell us where it started for you! All horror stories are good...
I deliberately destroyed my first guitar.
Anyway, it was a plywood 3/4 acoustic and what happened to it wasn't a disaster, per se. I had it for as long as I remember. It was the guitar that I could always go to just to strum and make noise with when I was a child. But when I actually started to be interested in learning to play guitar at around 10 years old, I knew it wouldn't suffice. So I took it and smashed it against an old tree stump on my backyard. It was just time for it to go so my parents would buy me a new one. No one in my family plays musical instruments and they'd likely have thought the guitar was good enough. They're the kind of people that cannot understand why you would need more of one thing.
Aside from that, I can't say I've had any. I take good care of my shit...well, used to. I've been neglecting my electric guitars for the last 5 years. They've been in their cases since.
my first guitar disaster was around year 2000 when I was adjusting the truss rod of my guitar while I was in my friend's studio. Some girl opened the door and asked me if the studio was available. I looked at her as I answered her question while trying to tighten the truss rod...then I heard a loud SNAP! The back of the neck was damaged.. lesson learned. HAHAHA
I'll bite, as its the only dumb thing I did to a guitar. Got a Westone guitar with a Floyd copy that had been blocked by a wood block. Popped that sucker out and the release pushed the studs forward. Cheap repair and it was good to go!