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Ding Magnet :(
After only a couple of weeks my poor (and amazing) Takamine P5DC has picked up 5 or 6 dings! I only have had one other guitar that was so unlucky. Anyone else have such an unfortunate experience?
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There was a delivery driver who had a record of throwing
Items off her truck. She tossed my five thousand dollar guitar in my yard right in front of my eyes. She was reported and confirmed to have this pattern. It was an international service. I've always wanted to give the drivers great compliments to try and have safe deliveries. Guitars with broken necks are sad.😂 |
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I play it anywhere and everywhere and it's got quite the collection of minor dings. Also marks on the back from my belt and up the neck from capos. Within a week of getting my 000-28 it picked up a mark to the top of the headstock from my kitchen table (wood on wood and did not feel like a major collision but that's not the way the guitar tells it). I'm sure it will get marked like the other one in time, playing in sessions in pubs etc. I'm honestly not rough with my stuff - but I guess I just don't care about cosmetic bumps and bruises. The one with the tambourine did annoy me because it was so preventable.
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McNally Dread Adi/Hog, OM-12 Spruce/EIr, OM Cedar Walnut 000-28 Lowden S32J |
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A couple of weeks ago I left my new Brook ‘Lamorna’ OM on my office chair (yes, I know, stupid is as stupid does!). It slid off and the base of the chair took chunks out of the binding. Painful, but that’s the first ding over and done - I know from long experience that any others won’t be so painful...
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John Brook ‘Lamorna’ OM (European Spruce/EIR) (2019) Lowden F-23 (Red Cedar/Claro Walnut) (2017) Martin D-18 (2012) Martin HD-28V (2010) Fender Standard Strat (2017-MIM) |
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I play my GS mini at my desk quite a lot. It's right next to me so I can grab it and have a little play whever I want. Because its unbound and unlucky I regularly donk it on the front edge of the desk. Nothing deep but the lower bout has small dings all around the edge.
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Gibson Customshop Hummingbird (Review) |
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It was bound to happen eventually!
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If it hangs on a wall or sits in a stand ONLY, it will never get a mark on it.
If it gets played in a room with stuff in it, it will get dings and other marks. Your guitar doesn’t look like a “case queen” cause it gets played. If you don’t occasionally hit it on things, it will get a haze or shiny spot on the body where your arm rests. It’ll get a mark or ten where the pick hits the guard or the edge of the soundhole. Pristine guitars are unplayed guitars.
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A bunch of guitars I really enjoy. A head full of lyrics, A house full of people that “get” me. Alvarez 5013 Alvarez MD70CE Alvarez PD85S Alvarez AJ60SC Alvarez ABT610e Alvarez-Yairi GY1 Takamine P3DC Takamine GJ72CE-12-NAT Godin Multiac Steel. Journey Instruments OF660 Gibson G45 |
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But I agree that your Takamine has a problem: two or three dings a week is a guitar that needs an attitude adjustment. Maybe you could try withholding the next string change until things improve.
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Keith Martin 000-42 Marquis Taylor Classical Alvarez 12 String Gibson ES345s Fender P-Bass Gibson tenor banjo |
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I had a (now sold) CEO-7. Picking up from it’s initial set up, I banged the body into the headstock of a Strat lying on the work bench. Ouch.
In fairly short order I hit the headstock on a ceiling fan and dropped a peg winder on the top. That guitar was cursed! |
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I get so ticked off when I hit some thing with one of my guitars the first time.
Maybe I should take a stick and give them a good wack when the first get through the door to get it over with.
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2007 Indiana Scout 2018 Indiana Madison Quilt Elite 2018 Takamine GJ72CE 12-String 2019 Takamine GD93 2022 Takamine GJ72CE 6-String 2022 Cort GA-QF CBB 1963 Gibson SG 2016 Kala uke Dean A style mandolin. (Year unknown) Lotus L80 (1984ish) Plus a few lower end I have had for years |
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I had an LL16M that the drill slipped when I drilled the hole for the strap button on the neck. Then, a few short days later at an open mic, my friend let someone else play the guitar and between my friend and the other person, the maple-bound body edges got chewed up on a music stand.
By the way, is your Tak the electric model? If so, how does it sound plugged in?
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As my username suggests, huge fan of Yamaha products. Own many acoustic-electric models from 2009-present and a couple electric. Lots of PA too. |
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5 or 6 dings on a new guitar in two weeks is not bad luck. It's carelessness. Ed
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Nah, my 2 year old j45 - zero dings. My 13 year old Taylor 310kce - 3 or 4. Seems to be bad luck!
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Best sound plugged in I've played - just perfect really!
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