Ah bollocks

TimmyO · June 2019

Well that only took a week...

Jason · June 2019

Its better to get it out the way early, now its all yours

Woodandwires · June 2019

I feel your pain, the first ding in a new guitar

stickyfiddle · June 2019

Jason said:

Its better to get it out the way early, now its all yours

Yeah totally this, as much as it'll hurt for a couple of days.

You have to keep it forever now. No great hardship

Creed_Clicks · June 2019

Every scar has a story!

TimmyO · June 2019

I'm actually never one to baby my stuff but this guitar has had such a profound effect on me thus far that this time I do feel a bit sick!

Note to self - don't leave the case open near the guitar - the clasps stick out further than you think and if it spontaneously closes...

VimFuego · June 2019

ah, just a ding then, for 1 minute I thought you may have left it somewhere.

Snags · June 2019

Ooops.

I think I dinged my Furch, which is the most expensive guitar I've ever owned, within a fortnight of getting it. Was a really stupid ding as well - smacked the top into a table corner because I was doing something in a rush.

I totally get that they're just things, and don't matter. I'll happily lend my stuff to pretty much anyone. But it still hurts a little every time I see that ding, because it was so eminently avoidable and stupid.

TimmyO · June 2019

VimFuego said:

ah, just a ding then, for 1 minute I thought you may have left it somewhere.

If I haven't recently confirmed it's not lost, does that mean it's not lost? "Schrodingers Thing On A Thing" theory....

(none of that will mean anything to folk who aren't in our Facebook clique lol)

TimmyO · June 2019

Snags said:

Ooops.

I think I dinged my Furch, which is the most expensive guitar I've ever owned, within a fortnight of getting it. Was a really stupid ding as well - smacked the top into a table corner because I was doing something in a rush.

I totally get that they're just things, and don't matter. I'll happily lend my stuff to pretty much anyone. But it still hurts a little every time I see that ding, because it was so eminently avoidable and stupid.

It's odd - the other expensive acoustic I own I got secondhand for a decent price (all things being relative...) because the guy who'd had it build dinked it on day 2 and felt so sick about it he couldn't bear to look at it. So that's that with it's repaired crack, and now my Martin with it's week1 dinks!

pmbomb · June 2019

my policy is to buy pre-dinged.

TimmyO · June 2019

pmbomb said:

my policy is to buy pre-dinged.

They actually had the same model guitar used in the shop (complete with a couple of blemishes and minor repairs) but this one sounded better

stuartryanmusic · June 2019

Tim, Ryan or Martin Bailey will be able to fix that for you, they’ll use steam to remove the dings

richardhomer · June 2019

You clumsy sod....

jrc2806 · June 2019

I think that it is time to move this one on - at a heavily reduced price :-) Feel your pain - think my next one will be reliced just to avoid this!!

tralfamadan · June 2019

TimmyO said:

Note to self - don't leave the case open near the guitar - the clasps stick out further than you think and if it spontaneously closes...

Yeah, done that before

Th4fonz · June 2019

I remember when i kicked my dumbbell across the floor to see it swerve and hit my acoustic and scratch the bottom. The agony on my face.

ToneControl · June 2019

I dinged 3 on the first day after not dinging any for many years!
I got 2 patched up
Very annoying

westford · June 2019

Took me about 3 days to drop my guitar - just got a little crack in the gloss on the binding, hardly noticeable. Unlike my last mobile phone which I dropped down the stairs the day I got it. It hit the metal stair gate at the bottom and ended up with a spiderweb-style crack across the whole screen. I felt sick about that.

jellyroll · June 2019

Commiserations. NOW it’s Authentic.....

thomasross20 · June 2019

Double ding : (

builttospill · June 2019

Definitely feeling your pain, I inflicted this on my brand new Taylor 415 Jumbo on its first day, the guitar was in it's case but open on my bed, my landline rings I go to answer call, throws brass shubb capo that was in my hand onto bed ricochets off wall and lands on top of the beautiful previously untouched finish. It took me a while to get over that ding trauma.

ICBM · June 2019

Last night I accidentally threw a mains lead at my friend's Hamer Sunburst... I don't *think* I dinged it, but I'm not 100% sure - there were a couple of small marks in the rough area it landed, which may or may not have been there before. Luckily it isn't exactly pristine anyway.

Voxman · June 2019

Ow - that's such a shame, & really feel for you.

artiebear · June 2019

My 30 odd year old D28 has dings, scratches, a new bridge plate, a refret, a few new saddles and nuts, damage to the finish round the sound hole from a Mimesis ( now Fishman Rare Earth ) pick up, and some dark spots inside the sound hole, which are actually my blood stains from when I bust a finger open during a gig about 25 years ago. It's also paid for itself a number of times over and has earned it's place on the would never part with list

Every mark on it makes it more yours.

Looks a lovely guitar, play the hell out of it and enjoy.

Lebarque · June 2019

Don't worry about it, mate. Guitars aren't pristine museum pieces. They're tools that get better when manhandled, played and rocked. It just gives it character IMO

John_P · June 2019

I had the same thing happen on a Taylor once when the lid fell and dinged it. Gutting.

But it I think there’s a fair chance you could fix or at least reduce the dings - steam it out and/or drop fill the dents.

jacksparrow · June 2019

Careful with that axe Eugene.

fandango · June 2019

TimmyO said:

Well that only took a week...

You’ll need a few more dings before you really get over it. I gotta say it looks a bit pants, so I suggest you play the socks off it, and never worry about putting it back in it’s case.

jackorion · June 2019

I worked in a shop once and I sold someone an expensive (£3000) Taylor - he was happy as pie when he left but he came back an hour and a half later with a face like thunder - I was worried there was going to be a fault or something but he’d got home, lifted the guitar out of its case, turned round and smacked it on the corner of a stone table top and put a hole in the side of the guitar!!

so it could be worse...

MichaelWatts · July 2019

Oh man... yeah, it happens. Your guitar will forgive you though

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