Worst place for dents.

JJLipton · Post by **JJLipton** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:37 pm

Do any of your favorite guitars have dents in the neck? I think it's a bit more common with mahogany neck guitars rather than hard maple ones. Westexasred, did any of your past LP's have neck dents? If so, did it bother you?

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:34 pm

My old guitar had an enormous gouge on the treble side right where the maple met the mahogany fretboard that must have been a centimetre deep and wide, as well as numerous small dings all over it. Didn't make the blindest bit of difference to me.

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:57 pm

All my guitars have dents in the neck, generally only small though so they don't bother me. The dents in my strat are a bit bigger and they're more of them, probably as I used to rest it with the back of the neck against things - now I rest all my guitars the other way round.

Rox · Post by **Rox** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 3:08 pm

Anything on the face of the guitar just would bug the hell out of me .

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:03 pm

I find it annoying when a guitar has'nt got any dents.

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:32 pm

Fran wrote:I find it annoying when a guitar has'nt got any dents.

I agree with this. Just bought a new guitar and it's way too pretty for my taste.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:37 pm

Rox wrote:Anything on the face of the guitar just would bug the hell out of me .

I hate damaging my guitars, I get all upset if I do.

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:18 pm

I think when you're gigging a guitar, it's pretty much impossible not to get dings on it. So I don't find dings upsetting at all anymore.

willlin · Post by **willlin** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:54 pm

mrperson wrote:
Rox wrote:Anything on the face of the guitar just would bug the hell out of me .
I hate damaging my guitars, I get all upset if I do.

I think there's a honeymoon period where you molly coddle a new guitar and are really careful, then the first ding is devastating and it looks shit, and then after 6 or 7 it looks battered enough to be cool.

Will · Post by **Will** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:08 pm

My strat got a huge one back in HS and I was mildly annoyed until I realized it was exactly where my thumb rested when I played in third position - so it was like a little point of reference when I was playing without looking.

My Dano's neck is beat. The wood is wearing away by the first fret and there are so many dents you don't notice individual ones anymore. The wear spot is the only one that bothers me, and I might put a light coat of clear on it eventually. You can feel a little ridge wear the neck wood is wearing away faster than the fretboard.

SGJarrod · Post by **SGJarrod** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:28 pm

I always feel weird and self concious if playing a perfect guitar...that is why my LP hardly gets touched...its to pretty and perfect..aka Case Queen

I prefer a "player" that has wear and is beat up a bit, I do not worry about it as much and have more fun and will really let go...if u know what I mean

but I do hate dents on the neck...any wear else is fine and is just character

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:34 pm

I really did used to get upset about dings. My tele deluxe, taylor acoustic, and MIA p bass, the first dings on those guitars were not even my fault, so I was crazy upset about them! I was out of town one weekend and my shitty roommate let his bitchy girlfriend go snooping through my room for some reason, she picked up my tele while she was drunk and dropped it and put a dent that went through the finish on it, still the only ding on that guitar. The Taylor, I let my friend play it while he was drunk and he bumped the bottom edge of it on my amp, kinda my fault for letting him play it while he was drunk. And my MIA p bass, a guy was trying out for my old band when the rhythm guitarist quit, and he let go of the neck of his guitar and it dove into my bass and left the first dent on it. I was like "that was strikes, 1, 2 and 2 1/2!" Needless to say he didn't make it into the band, not because of that, but because he sucked. But now, after playing tons of shows, the guitars and basses I use get hit or I bump into something or the finish wears down because I sweat acid, that I don't really care so much about dents and dings anymore.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:35 pm

Taylornut's house.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:42 pm

benetrol.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:47 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:benedrÃ´le.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:07 pm

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:19 pm

Stop pretending to be british french.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:38 pm

if anyone else types WEAR when they mean WHERE just because the thread is about WEAR on guitars they're going to end up WEARing their anuses round their necks when i fly over land and sea using the red hot power of my rage and rip them off their tailbones and stretch them over their phonetic-spelling bonces.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:49 pm

Not strictly speaking phonetic spelling is it though, old girl?

(And yes, I am doing this on purpose. God told me to).

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:58 pm

you're right, i was momentarily confused by my anger. i meant pronunciation spelling.

A pronunciation spelling of a word is a spelling different from the standard spelling, used to emphasize a particular pronunciation of the word. The spelling uses the regular spelling rules of the language. Most are nonce coinages, but some have become standardised, e.g. gonna to represent the pronunciation of going to, as in I'm gonna catch you.

tee hee!