i got bad karma

Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 3839 Location: BOSTON

couple weeks ago, i offered to get my bandmate's Rickenbacker fixed. he treats his gear like crap, throws it around, abuses it, etc, and the pickguard cracked in half and all the electronics were intermittent. he's got no money, so i took it, ordered the pickguard, brought it to get fixed and gave it back in time for a show. cost about $120 in all and now it plays perfectly like it should.

so i got rehearsal tonite and i brought my '68 SG to work so i can go straight to practice after. got out of my car at work, and about 10 steps and the gig bag zipper fails, and my vintage '68 SG cartwheels across the parcking lot, snaps of a tuner key, and cracked the neckjoint.

i must have some baaaaaaaaaaaaad fucking karma. Embarassed

Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 5463 Location: White Haven,Pa

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Dude that blows bigtime!! Not to be a dick but why do you not have a hardcase for a 68 SG?

Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 3839 Location: BOSTON

Eternal Scar wrote:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Dude that blows bigtime!! Not to be a dick but why do you not have a hardcase for a 68 SG?

i have a hardcase, but it's under a bed collecting dust with my brain! Laughing

GAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! Mad

she'll never resonate the same again. Crying or Very sad

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:33 pm

This post makes me sad. Sad

Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 3839 Location: BOSTON

i keep going back and forth between sadness and rage.

pure. uncontrollable. rage.

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:32 pm

al wrote:

i keep going back and forth between sadness and rage.

pure. uncontrollable. rage.

just don't take it out on the cans bro... Laughing

sorry to hear about the SG ragdoll incident..

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:46 pm

That sucks Al......I'm sorry to hear this man. Just calm down and assess the damage and go from there. Tuning peg, no problem, fixable. Neck joint can be a bit tricky. If youre not sure what to look for, bring it to your local guitar specialist/luthier to determine whether or not that the neck joint is sound or needs to be reset. By the way you describe it, youre lucky you didnt break the neck.

One word of advice, never use a gig bag period! I dont own and never have. If the zipper fails, like it did in your case. You have a catastrophe. In other situations, a gig bag serves as a portable toothpick maker. Just dont do it dude! Promise everyone you'll throw that damn thing away.

And this is for you, to cheer you up some, I hope............

Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 3839 Location: BOSTON

thank you all for the kind words and vomit Laughing

i have the original tuners so that's no issue, but the neckjoint has cracked in several places. i don't think it's a matter of filling in with wood dust/glue, or whatever the heck they do. by my uninformed eye, i would imagine the neck has to be reset, otherwise it will always be jacked up. the bridge got all whacked out too. i'll bring it in this weekend for surgery. might as well put EMG's in it now. i hate the bridge pup anyway.

both my gig bags will be burned tonite as a sacrifice to the guitar gods.

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:33 pm

Ugggggghhhhh!!!

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:04 am

Holy crap, Al! I'm bummed out for you, my friend. Chin up and bring it to a qualified repair shop.

Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 6297 Location: Jacksonville, TX.

Don't beat yourself up. It is repairable. I do not think it was bad Karma just one of those things that happens. It was great on you to have you bud's Rick fixed. So please don't beat yourself up. Just get her fixed. It will all work out Bro. Cool

Joined: 19 Aug 2008 Posts: 4622 Location: UP of Michigan

I'm sad.

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:31 am

Im sad for you man! That sucks big time! Sad

But hey, as said, it is fixable. Something like this actually just happened to my friend a couple days ago, except with a hardshell case. Laughing

He forgot to latch it Rolling Eyes

, picked it up and the guitar flew out.

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:21 pm

Everything that can be said has been said... now go get her fixed. It's not the end of the World, that won't be for a few weeks yet Laughing

I don't think it's bad karma man, more like shithappens

Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 956 Location: D.O.A. 04-00341

I know that sucks ,, but a gig bag for a 68 gibby?

Joined: 28 Apr 2011 Posts: 1739 Location: in the past

no no.... everyone is wrong, that thing is trash, just send it to my address and i will dispose of it the right way. Laughing

seriously though anyday you drop a gibby and dont break the headstock is a good day...kinda....

Joined: 27 Feb 2012 Posts: 1242 Location: New York, NY

I had a 93 LP studio. I was 16 when I got it, brand new. My first good guitar, couldn't wait to get that sumbitch out the case and play it. Didn't matter that I didn't have strap locks. Didn't matter that the strap barely held up the strat copy the gibby replaced.

So there I am, right, feelin like a rock star, jammin on my white LP with gold hardware (just like Randy's... well, to me anyway) to Crazy Train in my bedroom. First chord, F#. Doesn't sound quite right, so I take my hand off the neck to tune the strings. The second I take my hand off the neck, the guitar crashes down, smacks the back of the head stock on my dresser, and bam. That's all she wrote. The guitar was 15 minutes old. Still had the box in the living room. Only thing holding the headstock on was the black stuff they put on the front (whatever the hell it's called) that says Les Paul on it.

I found a guy not far from where I lived at the time, Paul Unkert, who had done some work for Bruce Springsteen and Bonnie Raitt. He takes one look at it, and says "Give me a week." A week later I go back, and dude hands me the guitar. I couldn't even see where it was cracked. And the guitar played so good, better than it did the 15 minutes I had it before it broke. I kept it until my demons made me trade it for a car to out run my girlfriend's husband. That part's not important though.

Moral of the story: It's a Gibson. These things happen. It'll add mojo, if anything. Never know, could make it sound better. Don't sweat it. But burn the bags. And post pics of the flames.

Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 3839 Location: BOSTON

thanks again for the kind words everybody. Smile

i brought her in for surgery today, and the neck will need to be reset, but should be fine. putting some new tuners on and gettin her back up to snuff. she's been my workhorse for 8 years, and i'll have her back on stage in a few weeks.

i have been lampooned for using a gig bag by every single person i've told. Laughing

lesson learned. this kinda sh!t should happen on stage, not in a parking lot. Mad

Joined: 02 Aug 2010 Posts: 1002 Location: Virginia

ts only karma if you know where you @#%$@!!& up

Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 7:45 pm

al wrote:

couple weeks ago, i offered to get my bandmate's Rickenbacker fixed. he treats his gear like crap, throws it around, abuses it, etc, and the pickguard cracked in half and all the electronics were intermittent. he's got no money, so i took it, ordered the pickguard, brought it to get fixed and gave it back in time for a show. cost about $120 in all and now it plays perfectly like it should.

so i got rehearsal tonite and i brought my '68 SG to work so i can go straight to practice after. got out of my car at work, and about 10 steps and the gig bag zipper fails, and my vintage '68 SG cartwheels across the parcking lot, snaps of a tuner key, and cracked the neckjoint.

i must have some baaaaaaaaaaaaad fucking karma. Embarassed

I hope you realized that $150 investment in a case would have prevented that guitar from losing some value. Anything I have that's over $500 gets a case.

Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 4749 Location: Indiana

Yes, it should have been in a case. No doubt.

I have seen, more than once mind you, someone snatch up a guitar case while all of the latches are open, and the instruments have been catapulted onto the concrete! Embarassed

Welcome to sucksille. Crying or Very sad