[Aaron]

I stored my live rig which was a marshall half-stack and various pedals at
this recording studio for quite some time, went to get it back and the owner
of the studio had sold everything, i comfronted about it and threatend legal
action, so he gave me free studio time whenever but i havent been back there since, i guess it was partly my fault seeing that it was there for so long and i never came back for it, but i did learn a lesson.

[Vince]

this one time, at band camp...

[Azyiu]

The worst accident that ever happened to my gear was... gosh, I really don't want to remember it, but...

Back in 1995 I was on my way home for X'mas (NO LESS) by plane with my first ever electric guitar, a Fernandes made Randy Rhodes-looking flying V. Well, for the first leg of my trip I kept the guitar with me, but I was asked to have it kept in the cargo area for the second leg... I just KNEW something bad was going to happen, but I've got no choice...

My guitar ended up being in THREE frigging pieces when I got home... and did I mention it was my first frigging electric guitar?! No joke, I STILL want to cry when I think about it some 12 years later...

[metalfiend666]

Only banging a headstock into the ceiling a few times really. I did nearly take my eye out restringing a Roswell Rhoads though. I tightended the high E instead of loosening it and it snapped. Just caught my cheek about 1/2" below my eye. Enough to cut me, but not enough to scar. I've been VERY careful restringing guitars since.

My old band's bassist had a big incident with his gear though. He didn't drive so got a lift with the other guitarist. Unfortunately he drove into the back of our drumer's car. The bass amp shot forward, landed on the bass and virtually severed the headstock.

[HighGain510]

Originally Posted by metalfiend666

Only banging a headstock into the ceiling a few times really. I did nearly take my eye out restringing a Roswell Rhoads though. I tightended the high E instead of loosening it and it snapped. Just caught my cheek about 1/2" below my eye. Enough to cut me, but not enough to scar. I've been VERY careful restringing guitars since.

Haha I had the same thing happen to me too! I wasn't paying attention to the tuner and definitely went way too high and the string popped right up and caught me in the cheek. I learned to be super careful about overtightening after that experience. Ouchies.

[kevenmo]

Originally Posted by musicboyy

I think the worst I've done was bang the headstock on the ceiling while take the guitar off. This was probably back in high school but I'm still paranoid about doing that now.

I tend to do that a lot
I`m 6'3", so the guitar doesn`t have a long way to travel.
It`s even worse with my bass, because of the longer neck.

[neon_black88]

I blew up a ds-1 by using the wrong power adaptor, it made funny noises then emmited black smoke. I promtly took it back to the store I bought it from and told them it never worked in the first place (im a bad boy).

Also I put my v-amp pro on top of my computer tower (i knew something bad was going to happen but I did it anyway) walked away with my guitar still plugged in, it fell and completely crushhhed a glass filled with coke. The v-amp was fine exept for a broken knob, exept strangely the sound dimished very slowly untill eventually it started sounding like farting and makes more pitches than a guitar could possibly have.

For the first week after i bought my schecter I kept hitting the headstock on doorways when I walked through them.

[Brett89]

Originally Posted by neon_black88

For the first week after i bought my schecter I kept hitting the headstock on doorways when I walked through them.

I do that everytime

[skinhead]

I had the UV in the hardcase on my bed, but the case was open. Then i jumped into the bed and hit very hard one of the locks of the hardcase, i fucked up that lock with my leg. And my dick hit on the Lo pro, shit, that hurted!

[7 Dying Trees]

Originally Posted by musicboyy

I think the worst I've done was bang the headstock on the ceiling while take the guitar off. This was probably back in high school but I'm still paranoid about doing that now.

Reminds me of taking out a lightbulb with my BC Rich years ago... Not good :s