And I dropped one of his guitars! I was carrying it and some other stuff and the damn zipper on the carrying case parted in the middle and his $600 Godin hit the driveway hard. Busted the finish so a piece the size of my hand broke off and cracked the body. Lord, I feel bad. Man. He won it as a door prize at one of Gelb Music's special sales.

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Bummer!
I have a nice doorstop that used to be a TEAC 3340 (4-track reel to reel) tape deck before my brother dropped it out of the van at a gig.

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I'll bet you $20 American it sounds better now Guitars still think they're trees for the first 25 years, and any body cracks or nicks in the finish usually bring out tone in the axe. My Dad's Gibson SG prototype (#91)is a perfect example.

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OUCH!!!

when i opened this thread- there was this huge ad at the top for ibenez and musical instruments and stuff
just found it ironic....

Hey sorry that happend to you BigDon, but hey it happens. Im looking to sell my guitar actually- i just don't use it anymore and im not likely to up and become a rockstar when im pushin thirty

I sold my Harley Davidson about a year and a half ago... to a close friend...
Who a week later layed it out on the road and wrecked it...
And i STILL haven't gotten paid for the bike

I think you meant to say "a former close friend".

Really, that's pretty low, to stiff you after wrecking his/your bike.

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"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

<chuckle>
Well, there are some mitigating circumstances. And he is one of those guys that will get to it eventually...
Im wondering if BigDons brothers guitar can be repaired or if it's totalled?

My guess would be that a repair would be extremely costly and include refinishing the whole guitar (you can't patch a good finish). But, I would say it probably isn't totaled either. Still, my sympathies go out to both BigDon and his brother.

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Thanks for the sympathy guys. As my brother had to leave I didn't get to examine the guitar closely and what I thought was a body fracture was just more lacquer that had fractured, so the damage was all cosmetic (and heart stopping)

He's cool with it, says its not my fault and if it had been his Gretsch hollow body he would have murdered me in my sleep.

Neverfly, my kid brother didn't seriously want to become a guitarman until he was 37. He's going to be 45 in May and has the Beachboy's "Pipeline" down cold. Plus the blues, rockabilly and surf music seem to come easy for him now. (He only claims to be a blues player for some reason though. You have to goad him into playing surf or rockabilly.)

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Yikes, BD; I know that sinking feeling. My brother's '66 XK-E just got out of the Santa Cruz restoration shop, and I was to drive it back for him to SoCal, after a few days in the Bay Area. Leaving the Golden Gate Visitor Center, there's a merge lane onto Hwy. 101 North, governed by a STOP sign. Seeing the red Lexus ahead of me take off, I looked back for an opening in the traffic and eased off the clutch, accelerating to merge---CRUNCH---the Lexus had stopped after clearly taking off. $5K damage to the Jag's nose; not a scratch on the Lexus bumper. Asked why she'd stopped again, her reply was, "There was a bus coming!"
Still paying for that one.

Well, it's good to know that M.O.U.D. didn't kill you for that!

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

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"It's just a fact of life no one cares to mention,
She wasn't good, but she had good intentions."
- Lyle Lovett

25 years ago, after playing my beloved Shaftsbury 12 string while having a few beers, I left it leaning against the couch. At some point in the night, it must have slid down onto the floor. I got up in the night for a glass of water, stod on the neck and snapped the machine head clean off.

I glued it back on with Araldite epoxy and pressure clamped it for two weeks.
I still have that guitar today.

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Can you say $$$$? O_o

I'm more a fan of the old SG junior because of the clean looks and the sound of the P90's, but I wouldn't say no to any real SG (junior) even if it's a black one and has the -for my taste- ugly metal buckle thing running from the bridge to the bottom. The SG is, next to certain Custom 24's, my favourite electric guitar type.

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Hey Boo, it was M.O.U.D.'s black one, not his red satin "baby" or the black hollow body, thank God.

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Good, lol. I was worried there.

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

-Dr. Seuss

"It's just a fact of life no one cares to mention,
She wasn't good, but she had good intentions."
- Lyle Lovett

For you others Moud is the acronym they call my brother. Stands for Mean Ol' Uncle Doug.

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Oh yeah. BIG dollars. Buy a new house, Harley, '07 Mustang, and pay for your kid's college type dollars. But he won't part with it, for any reason.

He bought it in a pawn shop in Akron, Ohio in '67 for less than $10 dollars. The shop owner had no idea what it was. It if finished forest green. It has a different pickguard than the production SGs came with, and it has 2 single-coil pickups instead of humbuckers. The single coils have a plastic covering and no pole peices are visible. The pickguard and single-coil covers are apparently made of bakelite and have long since faded into a gorgeous dark dirty yellow. It originally came with a Bigsby-like trem, that I've occasionally seen on the odd Gibson here or there (I'm a Strat man through and through, and don't know much about Gibsons, sorry), but it degraded a few years ago, and he had it replaced with a Les Paul tune'o'matic. The tuner thumbscrews are made of ivory, but IIRC, he had these replaced recently when he had the pots, etc... cleaned for the first time since it was built.

It was his daily player all the way up until Christmas '05, when it was becoming obvious that being the sole and only daily player was starting to take it's toll on even such a remarkable axe as his. So for Christmas that year, my wife and I bought him a black Tele standard with a rosewood neck. Closest thing I could think of to his SG, and he loves Teles anyway. He's now retired the SG to the closet and the Tele is his daily strummer. I'll snap you some pics in the next couple of days. I've been meaning to anyway since the Gibson guitar company has asked for high megapixel pics of it. When I snap them I'll post a couple

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"Those are the people that wonder how a thermos knows whether to keep something hot or keep something cold." ~ NeoWatcher

I meant the bigsby's with these things that look ugly for my taste. I love the look of a regular tremolo arm, but the bigsby is a bit too pronounced for me .

Sounds like a very special guitar, and blue can be nice as well! If it's such an old SG, I assume it's still called "les paul" or "les paul sg", as I read they used SG as a type name only after a few years, when they became an important type next to the regular LP? The single coils remind me of the Junior with its P-90's.

As for the closest thing to an old sg, how about...a new SG classic?

A good thing it's now in the closet. Yes, instruments are meant to be played. But when the playing changes "regular wear" into "destruction", it's time to start protecting unique instruments. Did he keep the old bigsby and other replaced parts? Because the more original these axes are, the better. For the finances . And yes, if he had kept it in the box all its life, it would have been worth money, but it wouldn't have been an instrument.

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