Disaster stories

[mainestratman]

I once zapped myself pretty good on the innards of my old Peavey Triumph 120... I still have no idea why I was poking around a charged circuit with a metal screw driver.. lol

[navvid]

I repaired a friend's Peavy Delta Blues (it's basically a Classic 30), and when it didn't work at first, I opened it up in frustration and started poking around haphazardly around the power supply area. The electric shock woke me up a bit though.

The repair was fine, it was a broken fuse.

I do not find electric shocks entirely unpleasant...

[gray77]

I had a friend grab my guitar and play it once and he leaned it against an amp and somehow dropped a small mixer on the back of it. Nice gouges all the way to the wood. I wasn't there at the time, so he just put it back into the case!!! I'm pretty sure several threats were made if he ever touched my guitar again, because accidents like that were known from him.

[333maxwell]

I've done all kinds of goofy stuff I probably shouldn't of..

Still doing goofy stuff.. it's only equipment.. you screw with it..

Leo or Less would of NEVER created what they did if they stopped every time they screwed something up.

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I think my most spendy (yet deliberate, it wasn't a screw up, except by doing it I screwed up) action was to take my original run gold top (worth thousands and thousands on todays market) and strip that ugly gold paint off it..

It was a much better looking guitar when I was finished with it (well, there is another story about that, for another time)... WONDERFUL grain under that icky gold paint..

Thereby reducing an ugly guitar that would be worth thousands and thousands and thousands (seriously) and turning it into a nice looking guitar worth about 500 bucks for parts..

Live and learn..

No regrets.. it was ugly.. I still cringe when I see Gold Tops.. not because I devalued mine, but because they are ugly and look like crap on stage.. *L*