Stop scratching the back of my guitar!!! (members, cover, shows)

GuitarBizarre · 11-30-2008, 06:20 AM

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Originally Posted by shiseido_red

Yeah but some people spend A LOT of money on their instruments and so they want to try and protect them as much as they can... it kinda sucks if you spend like 5 years savings on a guitar and then just see it get scratched up and ruined. I can understand why people are protective of their guitars, especially if they've put a lot of time and effort and money into them.

But then on the other hand some people just take it too far - there's no point having a guitar if you're not going to make the most out of using it.

On Conklin's website they had a guitar of the month feature. This guy spent thousands on a custom 8 string or 9 string conklin with a crazy burlwood top, and part of his SPECIFICATION for the guitar was that it had to withstand him JUMPING ON IT during his stage shows.

Itshorses for courses. If I buy a completely custom guitar to my exact specs, its around 5 grand or more from most makers. THing is, I'm still speccing it for my playing style and tone. I'm not speccing it out to baby it and never use it, so eventually that guitar is going to be a little scuffed and scratched. It may even suffer a fall or something if for example a straplock fails. At the end of the day, those things happen to working instruments.

THe only instrument thats going to be in perfect condition after years and years, is the one thats never ben played in its life. And who wants to do that?