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My mother and step-dad were over tonight, and in the shuffle, I knocked my Jag off its stand. 

It fell face first on the lino over concrete floor....KRANG!  Now there are some extremely thin cracks in the finish that run from the trem plate to the back of the guitar, one that goes between the bridge and trem, and one on the top where your arm rests. 


You can't see any of it, unless you're really close....But there goes the resale value.

Dude that sucks. I'm sorry. 

Sorry to hear. 

I can take the Jag burden off your shoulders for...let's say - $700? 







...I couldn't help that joke, Nolan.....

I do feel sorry for you.

J

I feel for you, chief     
I would say it was fortunate that you had linoleum over bare concrete ... otherwise, I can only imagine

My own experience confirms that as long as you have one or more guitars on tri-pod stands, it is just bound to happen sooner or later. 
I wonder which senario would make me madder ; whether knocking it down myself or someone else did.  When my beloved cat did that to me, all I could do was to blame myself for placing the stand at a wrong location in the first place

When I first got my JM, I had nightmares of this sound waking me up in the middle of the night.  I do have an inquisitive cat.

Someday you'll look at those cracks and just see character, though.

that's a drag.

One of the many times, however, that you should be thankful it wasn't an SG.

Fenders are so damn tough.  It took me a couple mins to find the damage.  It only  shows from certain angles.  Oh well, just adds character.  I'd be crying if it were my IBM Jazzmaster.  That thing's cherry, and I want to keep it that way. 

Well despite the horror of it all if you just go with it it becomes the history of the thing...but i guess that depends on whether this is a 'keeper' or just a guitar one night stand!

My old strat has never NEVER been kept in a case, nor put in a stand. Its been propped up, dropped. lived life and been played almost everyday for 14 years and it is COVERED in history.  Love it.  Then again I aint gonna sell it either *shrugs* so mileage may vary for most.

yeah, i can understand why you would be upset about it, but for me, every ding and crack in the finish just adds character, i prefer beaten up guitars, especially when they started out pristine, and after a few years they just look battered, it's almost satisfying in a way.

I'm sorry to hear that! At least there was linoleum on the floor, and not cheese-grating raw concrete! I always cringe when I see people taking pics of their vintage Jazzmasters and Jags sitting on a mat or something right on their driveway, and if a gust of wind went by, or if someone breathed on it wrong at just the right time, lol, it would be a catastrophe. I don't own any offsets, but with my regular guitars I have a hard time just propping them against my bed for a second if I quick leave the room. I can just picture my cat walking by or something and it just crashing to the floor, lol. If I ever own a Jazzmaster, I am making sure I have one of those plastic things on the top of my stand to make sure it won't magically pop out onto the floor.

The funny thing is, it probably won't affect anything at all, not even resale value.  In my personal experience only, I haven't ever seen a ding or two in a new-production guitar significantly reduce the resale value.  Guitars are funny like that.  A few dings here or there are easily forgiven.  It's not like a car. 

The funny thing about it is that the incident has really caused me to play it more.  I've been sitting here, playing it in front of the computer for an hour now.

I use to knock my guitars accidently from their tripod stands in the past, or the cat helped a bit as well. But after we bought a house, I bought a few of these guitar hooks to hang on the wall.
This helps a LOT...whenever I'm not playing the guitars, I hang them against the wall. Didn't dammage a guitar since we moved in.

But the worst was with my first JM, We used to rehearse in a really low ceiling basement. Whenever I took of the guitar I ended up smashing the headstock against the ceiling....
After 10 times or so the thing was very chipped.....I ended up putting some tape on the headstock to avoid even worse damage....looked stupid, but at least it saved the headstock...

I live in an apartment on a University campus, so I'm sure they wouldn't appreciate me drilling large holes in the wall for guitar hangers.  I'm tempted, though. 

RumorsOFsurF wrote: I live in an apartment on a University campus, so I'm sure they wouldn't appreciate me drilling large holes in the wall for guitar hangers.  I'm tempted, though. 

Just do it.  Fill them with toothpaste on move-out day.