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Posted by: Alex87 Sep 9 2008, 03:42 PM
Just wanted to hear if any of you guys ever experience this kind of unlucky thing. It's the worst that can ever happen to a guitar imo. My beloved Hamer Steven Stephens signature, true beautiful yesterday suffered from a person accidently pushing it out of it stand, and it fell and broke it's head off 
I know it's insured, and will not cost me anything to get repaired, but this is just such a shame that your beloved guitar has to go through that, especially when it's a rare old model that WAS in perfect condition
Posted by: sigma7 Sep 9 2008, 03:44 PM
never happened to me but i would kick the persons ass haha
Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Sep 9 2008, 03:47 PM
I've done it with my guitar by mistake accidentally knocking the lid of the case onto it . I could never look at it again or even play it after it had been damaged even with fixing it so I sold it on ebay
Posted by: Canis Sep 9 2008, 03:50 PM
In my eyes, a guitar isn't just a object; It's my friend... So if someone knocked off my friends head, I'd problaby do the same thing to the person knocking it over xD
Posted by: Alex87 Sep 9 2008, 03:55 PM
I guess it was quiet tempting too
However, since I wasn't insured myself with this guitar it had to be the guy who did it who had to pay, and I guess he wouldn't if i broke his head off 
Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Sep 9 2008, 06:33 PM
Accidents do happen, no need to beat up the poor guy, it is probably not his intention to do it. It's a shame about a guitar, but if it's playable than a fix should do it.
On the other hand, once I borrowed acoustic guitar from a friend a long time ago, it was a great Fender guitar, and I carried it in a gigbag. So I was running and guitar bumped hard against those metal rods that stand on the sidewalk to prevent cars from parking 
It was a crack so I had it fixed, but that guitar isn't gonna play the same ever again. You can imagine how to poor guy felt when I told him what happened 
Posted by: superize Sep 9 2008, 07:04 PM
If anyone would break my guitar i would be very angry with him
Posted by: Alex87 Sep 9 2008, 07:14 PM
On the other hand, once I borrowed acoustic guitar from a friend a long time ago, it was a great Fender guitar, and I carried it in a gigbag. So I was running and guitar bumped hard against those metal rods that stand on the sidewalk to prevent cars from parking
It was a crack so I had it fixed, but that guitar isn't gonna play the same ever again. You can imagine how to poor guy felt when I told him what happened I'm sorry to hear that Ivan. it's usually a bigger problem with acoustic than electric. And accidents do happen
The thing that just bothers me most is that i maybe can't play guitar for the next couple of weeks, since i just returned a guitar i borrowed back to the owner because he needed it , just a few days before the accident
Posted by: FrankW Sep 9 2008, 10:21 PM
Even though your insurance will allow you to replace it, it's not the same is it? Accidents happen, so go easy on the guy.
If it were done on purpose though, I'd use a flamethrower on him. Nothing says, "Watch what you're doing, numbnuts!", like a flamethrower.
Posted by: Fran Sep 9 2008, 10:44 PM
Sorry to hear Hope it gets fixed soon and that it plays just as good as usual.
Posted by: Canis Sep 9 2008, 10:56 PM
You know what they say (or atleast what I say), once your guitar has a dent, it has a personallity =)
It becomes more of an individual at that point, imo
Posted by: Guitarist16 Sep 9 2008, 11:36 PM
that stinks just last weekend i bought a les paul that had a repaired neck for a great price and i put it in a safe place in the trunk and on the way home the neck had rebroken. So i returned it, but it was a fun 30 minutes.
Posted by: audiopaal Sep 10 2008, 08:13 AM
I'd be really mad, that's for sure
I'm so sorry to hear this, hopefully it'll get just as new after repairs..
Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Sep 10 2008, 01:30 PM
I know it's insured, and will not cost me anything to get repaired, but this is just such a shame that your beloved guitar has to go through that, especially when it's a rare old model that WAS in perfect condition
Oh I know that feeling..When I was young my first acoustic guitar fell from the resting point (on table) and broke its head off
It was ugly Oh bad luck, but I guess its not the transport fault - guitar was not repaired well in the first place! Its good you managed to return it.
Posted by: OrganisedConfusion Sep 10 2008, 01:35 PM
It becomes more of an individual at that point, imo
I don't think that applies when the headstock gets knocked off
Posted by: Alex87 Sep 10 2008, 02:32 PM
I'd like to thank everyone in here, for having sympathy for my broken guitar, am also glad to hear your stories about it; you have my sympathies - It helps alot when great people like you, gives feedback on such a tradegy
Thanks alot!
Alex
Posted by: Rooks Sep 28 2008, 08:39 AM
I'm sorry I feel the same way about my guitar .. doesn't matter if its rare or common to me .. It's your guitar.
But I'm building a second one from scraps that I can bash around so my black beauty can rest at home and at special occasions
Posted by: Muris Varajic Sep 28 2008, 08:42 AM
I never experienced something like that
but I can tell you that it'd be horrible feel,I'm sorry to hear...
Posted by: timono Sep 28 2008, 09:16 AM
my guitar fell out of it's standard once, it fell forward on the ground. luckily nothing was wrong with it just a bit out of tune, but i really felt my heart racing when i saw it happen!!
Posted by: fkalich Sep 28 2008, 09:38 AM
Regarding the clumsy friend, you can take the dog approach or cat approach. A dog would consider it understandable as they are clumsy. But a cat would not, cats do not excuse carelessness like that, they hold you responsible.
Or he can take the approach I do. As every molecule in your body is replaced within 9 years, in 9 years he can say he is totally not responsible.
Posted by: g-forcelover Sep 28 2008, 01:23 PM
That exact same thing happened to my guitar. I got it used, and it was still amazing, and cheap. when i started to look at it when I bought it, i noticed a big crack, indicating that the headstock had been broken off before. So it is possible to repare it, just find someone really, really, good to do the job. and my guitar sounds amazong, and plays like a dream.
Posted by: Alex87 Oct 2 2008, 03:50 PM
I'm sorry to hear that about your guitar too. I got the best man i know on the case, he is fixing it as we speak :-)
Or he can take the approach I do. As every molecule in your body is replaced within 9 years, in 9 years he can say he is totally not responsible.
I fully undestand your point in this. I sorta went both ways if i can say that lol. I just said as long as either your insurance or mine will pay, and as long as it wont cost me a thing to get it repaired since i know it could be repaired without big problems, i'd stick with that. The most important is i get it back - 2 month before this accident i had this guitar fully fixed up for a 1000 dollars (it's an old, rare one) So its very important just to have this one back.
Ill upload a photo of it when i get it back
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