The ESP Guitar Company

wat.

exactly!

I bought a LTD EX-400BK that I fucking loved, a couple of years ago. A week after I got it, my band was rehearsing so I brought my new guitar and played it for maybe an hour until my strap broke and the guitar crashed to the floor. It was fucked beyond repair.

I thought I was gonna cry.

that sux, I hate when I screw up something I really like!

Those are rough stories guys, but after the first scratch, you tend not to notice them. As long as you can still play it, it's not so bad.

Yes, I bought a brand new EC-II and the first cut was really the deepest, went straight into my heart. But hey, afterwards it´s like Pushead said: You don´t care as long as You can play.

I recently got a Jackson SL2H straight from Fender and it has a couple scratches under the clear coat and a screw that surfaces through into the FR cavity. With Jackson QA these days on even their USA "select" you don't even have to scratch them yourself! Still plays like a dream though...

Last month, due to ice on the sidewalks, I fell with my guitar in my gigbag (luckily enough I carried it in my hand, not on my back) on the ass :D I was the first on the ground, guitar was the second, I presume it hit my strap pin or something on the lower end of the guitar, I heard a dull sound, and then strings buzzing. Checked it quickly in the dark, nothing big. Got home and a chunk of paint was missing under the floyd rose (right below the bar), opened the gigbag, glued the missing piece back, and continued playing :D The guitar is pretty much beat up but it works like a clock :D

I cant stand trying to keep guitars mint. I play live and I enjoy the character that it gives them. Chips and scratches dont effect how great a guitar may play or sound.

scratches are going to happen ,they cant stay new forever ,unless they never leave the case

scratched/dinged/chipped guitars play better imo

you can concentrate on playing instead of worrying about hitting into something and scratching the guitar

i just smashed my light fitting while taking off the guitar....only problem..with my kh2 !

i lightly scratched the headstock...near the tip of it, fortunately it's almost unperceivable.

almost invisible after i cleaned well the part with polish.

btw every scratches is an heartache and angry moment with her :P

A few years ago now.. I sat down a ec-400 on a shitty rack, it fell into an ec-1000 and one of the tuners on the ec-400 literally cracked the top right above the toggle switch, about .5 inch x .25 inch, and about 1/8 inch deep. nasty, but she has character.

When I didn't have my LTD and I was using my Jackson KE3 Kelly the shit stand that I have collapsed (Don't have any idea how) and it chipped the body in 2 places and dented my headstock. Was offit.

Well i have only one memory of ever fucking up a guitar and thats when my old fat tv fell on it... so ladies and gentlemen, don't ever have your guitar standing infront of your tv when you're messing with the cables at the back and inserting the scart "just a wee bit more"...