Disaster stories

[oldguy]

(Early yrs.) Drank too much at an outdoor party and decided to "toss" my Gibson Flying V to the audience to catch at the end of the night. Guess nobody wanted it, it hit the grass and cracked the headstock.
(Middle yrs.) Working as a meatcutter in a store, I was cleaning the slicer and cut the tip off the index finger of my left hand. I played that night, Sat. and Sun. with a finger brace and dressing on the finger. Did a lot of playing with the other three fingers. Learned to use my pinky that weekend.
(Later yrs.) Decided to adjust the truss rod on my Tele by removing the pickguard and carefully going over the top of the neck pickup with the screwdriver. The chrome pickup cover now has a small, neat dent in it.
Look at Teles in pawn shops.......you'll see this often. Makes me feel a little better that I'm not the only one who thought it'd work.....

[Katastrophe]

All my "mod disasters" happened when I let someone else do the work.

I had a bad knob on my Ibanez that wouldn't come off, and the tech put a .5" scratch in the front of my guitar.

I paid someone to replace a worn nut in my first electric guitar, and they cracked the neck with a flathead screwdriver.