Gearhead
Never mind the paint job just now, go get the dent out asap. Depending on the size of the dent it is better to scrape the paint off until the bare wood. Then, put a wet bundle of toilet paper or similar on the dent and if you feel confident, heat up the paper with a soldering iron - oldest trick in the book.
What happens to the wood is that the force that created the dent squashed the wood fibres together. By wetting the fibers and thus unsqueezing them (with the turbo boost of steam forming) you allow the fibres to get back in their natural position.
The paint job can be done later, but the dent comes out a lot better if steamed immediately.
Bob-Dubery
CornFlakes wrote:
Hi,
My maid or someone bumped my guitar or something cause yesterday when i picked it up i noticed this ugly dent.
NOT COOL!
Keep it in a hard case when you're not playing.
CornFlakes
The dent doesn't bother me, but i didn't put it there? If it was done by me then it would've been fine. I dig the whole "relic" vibe don't get me wrong. But its my baby and it got hurt... ☹
So okay I'll just keep the way it is, maybe just treat the dent a bit i case of further damage..
Gearhead
One dent does not normally warrant a complete respray and the whole repair might not be that expensive, ask the usual suspects for a quote.
The whole relic'ing thing imho is overrated. One bump does not make your Tele a relic nor does it improve its creds, looks or second hand price. Most artists who did not 'care' about dings and scratches were too busy being cool or too cheap to have stuff fixed for putting their money up their nose. There will not be many guitars owned by Billy Gibbons that look roadworn.
CornFlakes
Gearhead wrote:
One dent does not normally warrant a complete respray and the whole repair might not be that expensive, ask the usual suspects for a quote.
The whole relic'ing thing imho is overrated. One bump does not make your Tele a relic nor does it improve its creds, looks or second hand price. Most artists who did not 'care' about dings and scratches were too busy being cool or too cheap to have stuff fixed for putting their money up their nose. There will not be many guitars owned by Billy Gibbons that look roadworn.
Well said! The thing is I'm not materialistic, i just like to keep my gear in a great looking condition and i believe there is noting wrong with that. Also i don't play guitar to look cool or whatever, i do it because it is a passion of mine.
MIKA-the-better-one
its a bump, I doubt it makes the guitar osund bad....... Relicing is very stupid (methinks) Just use the guitar, and be......
costafonix
In years to come if you ever decide to sell it, it will maintain a higher resale value with its original paintwork (bumps, bruises and all) than with a brand spanking new paintjob, but yeh it is annoying when it gets its first ding..... ☹
Gearhead
CostaFonix wrote:
In years to come if you ever decide to sell it, it will maintain a higher resale value with its original paintwork (bumps, bruises and all) than with a brand spanking new paintjob
with respect, that's rubbish. Quite a few good techs in this country would be able to do such a good partial respray after removing the ding that you would not be able to even see where it happened. So how would it fetch more with the ding?
Wizard
I've always thought I would pay extra for a car that came with the first scratch.
Just removes the worry of the 1st one ...
BMU
Sheez I was gonna say 'congratulations!' until I realized this was viewed as a bad thing. ?
PeteM
BMU wrote:
Sheez I was gonna say 'congratulations!' until I realized this was viewed as a bad thing. ?
:roflmao:
Sean
There is also the risk that you have the thing resprayed and 2 weeks later you come across another little dent ?
Bob-Dubery
The dent is not a problem in itself. The consequences are no more than cosmetic. I'm not recommending hurling your guitar or anything, but the main thing should be that the guitar plays well and sounds good - IE be in good working order.
However the dent is also a warning. It could have been worse. The neck could have taken a knock or a string been damaged. You need to take more attention to storage. Use a hard case. If you want your guitar on display then make sure it's up somewhere away from kids, dogs, vacuum cleaners, clumsy people etc. The hard case seems a better bet to me, and one shouldn't complain if the case shows wear and tear - that means it's doing it's job.
CornFlakes
BMU wrote:
Sheez I was gonna say 'congratulations!' until I realized this was viewed as a bad thing. ?
Brilliant!
Reinhard
Like cat stevens said, the first ding is the deepest. As soon as you really start playing a guitar, going to band practices or playing a gig, the battle scars start adding up. It is never intentional, but happens anyway. Some people pay big money for that kinda mojo!
CornFlakes
Sean wrote:
BTW welcome back ?
Thanks bro, i was MIA for a while. But I'm back now and have so much "catch-up" to do.. ?
guidothepimmp
hehe.. depends on the guit to me.
i have some that are just so darn purty that i have a hernia when they get scarred.. then i have workers who the more scarred the better..
strange i know.. but i dont even bother fighting it anymore
BMU
guidothepimmp wrote:
hehe.. depends on the guit to me.
i have some that are just so darn purty that i have a hernia when they get scarred.. then i have workers who the more scarred the better..
strange i know.. but i dont even bother fighting it anymore
For sure. One of my guitars I beat up on purpose. Another one, if it ever got a scratch I'd poke my eyes out. (Ok maybe not really since it' bound to get a scratch at SOME stage.)
But there's something about a roadworn tele that's just very cool. Blame the Crossroads movie I suppose.
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My main guitar is a 1972 Strat that I've had for 16 years. It had been abused some by the time I bought it, but I've not put a single scratch on it in the time I've had it (the same goes for another Strat I've had for a year and a half). I don't know; I just don't seem to damage them, and they've seen plenty of action, gone around the world with me... I don't think I'd be bitter if they got some more dents - both my Strats had previous owners - but if a ding was the first and only and I thought I'd want to resell the guitar later on, I might get it fixed (I think Gearhead made a good point).
