If You Don't Want To Damage Your Guitar...NEVER

[DungBeatle]

Do not attempt to play your guitar while floating in a pool, swimming in the ocean or engaged in any other type of water sport...
~Bob

[Orfeas]

Originally Posted by B-Nads

That's what Telecasters are for ;-)

Never leave your acoustic out in clear sight while you're on a set break - drunks sometime take this as an invitation to play and destroy it. Speaking from experience...not as the drunk ;-)

Yeah!!!!!! That will do the trick!

[Orfeas]

Originally Posted by rwrrwr

Obviously, You've never owned a Yamaha.

No, but I will check out one ASAP!!

[cappucho]

Never restring your guitar without putting a towel or cloth on the top to protect it from scratches and dents.

Don't use the old 'Humidipaks' made by 'Planet Waves'. They will burst open and ruin your guitar!

[StevenL]

Never: Whiskey. Psilocybe.

[papat]

Originally Posted by tbeltrans

That sounds like something we boys were told frequently as kids in Catholic school.

Tony

Thanks for the best laugh in a while.....brilliant ! !! !
Papa T

[Laughingboy68]

Be reasonably careful.

Play the darned thing.

Expect to get the odd ding in it if you are going to give it a good life. Honour the trees that were sacrificed to create the instrument by creating music, not by obsessing over its condition.

[gitarro]

Never take the guitar out of the case.

Never play it.

Never take the guitar our a humidity and temperature control rolled vault.

Never own the guitar in the first place.

[oldgitplayer]

Never stand on your guitar in order to reach your hat on the high shelf

[joeyb]

Never leave your electric guitar unattended where your three year old can turn the volume knob around and around without you knowing until it doesn't go around and around anymore.

[LSemmens]

Never post a NGD thread without pictures.

[leew3]

never take advice from any of us in response to a question along the lines of 'is it safe to use _______on a guitar with a ______ finish?"

[drive-south]

Never stop playing your guitar ever.

Why you ask

Bass solo.

[DrewStrummer]

Never do anything to your guitar that's going to hurt it's resale value... Because as a member of AG Forum you will be gas-ed to sell it eventually for another.

On a serious note, never put vinyl anywhere near a nitro finished guitar (Martin etc), Bad things will happen.

[Mbroady]

Originally Posted by tbeltrans

Or, following some of the more humorous logic in this thread...never go tinkle.

Tony

I remember reading somewhere that Uric acid is/can be used to age wood