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Landed just right on my padded floor and the clamp that came loose and smashed a pretty good sized hole in the rim. Was hoping to sell it, now will hope to learn how to repair it.

Anyone else live through an experience like this?

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Dropped a client's very nice Guild during a refinish job.... it fell on the corner of a metal bench in the spray room. So I had to repair a 3 cornered hole in the side, as well as complete the refinish. I told him what I did, but he couldn't see the repair even after I showed him.

Good luck!

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Oh, Bummer! I dropped a Weiss once (rushing to finish a commission) & put a BIG hole in the rim on the bass side, near the tail block. The damage was pretty severe, so instead of repairing it, I cut out the section & fitted a side mount pre-amp / EQ unit.
The owner loved it! (WHEW!!!!) I lucked out that time, but it's not an experience I'd like to repeat.

I was vacuuming my shop floor when the hose grabbed the classical guitar mold assembly and sent the guitar into a dive on the shop floor. The neck pushed right through the sides so all that was left was a neck and headblock and broken rims. I left the rims on a hook in the ceiling of my shop as a gentle reminder to not be so stupid. About 20 years later I made a cutout small body guitar out of the sides.

It happens. Good luck.

Dropping a guitar...., that's lame. You should try something really bone-headed like dropping a router onto the top and punching a hole through it

Yep. My first build. I was using a 2x12 as a workbench. I put a clamp on one side of the body and then went around to put the clamp on the other side. When tightening the second clamp is slipped and the weight of the clamp on the other side pulled it right over and hit the concrete shop floor.
It needed to happen. I had made so many mistakes. the cedar top was somewhere in the neighborhood of around 0.070" and I was only finishing it so I could say that I completed a guitar knowing full well that it would blow up under string tension. The top was smashed, but the rest of the guitar was fine. So I took it as a sign, put a new top on, finished it and it's playable today.

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I hate to say it but it's nice to read I'm not the only one who's wrecked a guitar.

I finally got around to fixing the hole. Came out OK but still know it's there.

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I used tape to affix a neck to a coat hanger wire, hung it up while the finish was curing.
The neck came down and landed right on the end of the headstock.
Easy to repair, and my rattling truss rod no longer rattled, although it was poking out of the headstock a bit too far.

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Nice fix. Well done.

Steve

That's a great looking repair Larry! Well done.

One time I had just got done setting up a super cheap Epiphone.

I picked it up and the headstock immediately slipped out of my hand and fell back on the bench, snapped clean off.

I just bought him a new one and set it up.

Recently I just finished laquering a body for a client, in satin, and I imeediately smashed it into a concrete column.

All it did was ding the purpleheart binding a little and scratch the finish pretty bad, I sanded it a little, touched up the satin, and blended it with blush eraser, good as new!

I was lucky the damage wasn't more extensive.

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