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cez

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My guitar's first blemish
#22113174 - 08/19/15 05:30 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I knew it was bound to happen and today it did. I pulled my Taylor out of the case and it clanked against the chair I was sitting on and put the tiniest blemish on the black outline of the back part of the guitar. It's very small and I have to really look for it to see it..
Should I buy some type of product to remove/buff it out or just let it be? It's unnoticeable I think except to me so I kinda like the idea of knowing how to spot mine in the event it's ever in a room of identical guitars 
But seriously, should I even worry about this? I never plan on selling it and it's pretty much unnoticeable.
Are your guitars in perfect condition?
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Sheekle
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Re: My guitar's first blemish [Re: cez] 1
#22113191 - 08/19/15 05:33 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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When I got my Jackson like 7 years ago, which I recently sold, the day I got it my neighbor purposely took a large rock and made a giant scratch on it to piss me off or something.
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Re: My guitar's first blemish [Re: cez]
#22113231 - 08/19/15 05:41 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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If your guitars get played they will get dinged, better not to freak out about it and just let it be.
I have a few expensive ones and it is definitely sad to see them get scratched and dinged. Must be more careful. But belt buckle or button scratches on the back I've basically learned to accept. If I'm going to play it it's going to happen. Same goes for some light pick scratches near where I strum.
Some guitars look better once they're a little beat up... Like a strat or a tele. But when I dinged my 61 reissue SG I cried
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Re: My guitar's first blemish [Re: cez]
#22113257 - 08/19/15 05:46 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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can it still play?..
if so then i wouldnt worry about it 
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Re: My guitar's first blemish [Re: zZZz]
#22113265 - 08/19/15 05:48 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I view each blemish as the progression to building character for my guitar. I'll never sell it so I don't mind. It's probably just a way of lying to myself so I don't have to cry each time it gets a ding or scratch
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Re: My guitar's first blemish [Re: nuds]
#22113443 - 08/19/15 06:31 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I REALLY suck at guitar. But for some reason I have two of them. It's a lot of fun to play. They're both pretty cheap guitars. One is an acoustic I bought for less than $200 and the other is a left handed electric strat that I bought for I think $250. I love em. So much fun to play with using Rocksmith 2014 as an amp/pedal setup using a really meh 5.1 surround sound setup.
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Re: My guitar's first blemish [Re: Sheekle]
#22113702 - 08/19/15 07:22 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Sheekle said: When I got my Jackson like 7 years ago, which I recently sold, the day I got it my neighbor purposely took a large rock and made a giant scratch on it to piss me off or something.
WTF? Did you whoop his or her candy ass?
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Sheekle
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Re: My guitar's first blemish [Re: LackToast]
#22113712 - 08/19/15 07:25 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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No, he was older than me and could have whooped my candy ass easily. I kinda miss him actually, haven't seen him in years. I always looked up to him, and he showed me the path of righteousness like scratching guitars nd shit
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Re: My guitar's first blemish [Re: Sheekle]
#22113753 - 08/19/15 07:35 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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well it sounds like you need to go over to your new neighbors house and scratch their car or some shit. you know to spread the love.
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Re: My guitar's first blemish [Re: cez]
#22115332 - 08/20/15 04:43 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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It happens. The back of my guitars are hella scratched up from my belt buckle. Banged them off shit by accident, sweat damage. I carve designs and tags into the back of this esp I have. Acoustics are always a little more sensitive to this stuff, but electrics can take a beating.
A guy I used to play music with left his fender on top of his car when we left the spot we were playing at and it fell off the car at about 40mph, it played fine.. the only rule is you can't do that shit to anyone elses guitar..
On a side note, I always remove the bridge spring cover and cut my name and the date into it so if anyone's ever stupid enough to jack it, it's like a poor mans copyright.. protip, trellis covers and those back plates are good places to hide things..
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Re: My guitar's first blemish [Re: Amanita86]
#22115352 - 08/20/15 04:55 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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its bound to happen, . .. fuck now that i'm thinking about it there's more damage then i'd like to my guitar.
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Re: My guitar's first blemish [Re: abductee]
#22115412 - 08/20/15 05:25 AM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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I pound the shit out of all my guitars but hey thats what a wild man do
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abductee
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I havent played an electric guitar in years.. I've been playing on just acoustics. Maybe i'll buy an electric when I get some extra cash.
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