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What would you do with a banjaxed guitar?

  • 02-10-2020 5:04pm
    #1
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    If I were a carpenter, I might be able to mend it.

    If I were an artist with studio space I'd turn it into some kind of epic installation.

    Alas, I'm just a punter whose guitar neck splintered, got repaired, then snapped again. What do ye suggest I do with it?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    If I had a hammer......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭Hand in Your Pants


    firewood


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,529 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    I wouldn't fret about it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭smellyoldboot


    If I were a carpenter, I might be able to mend it.

    If I were an artist with studio space I'd turn it into some kind of epic installation.

    Alas, I'm just a punter whose guitar neck splintered, got repaired, then snapped again. What do ye suggest I do with it?
    Take the free opportunity to recreate the Paul Simonon shot from London Calling cover. Get a friend to snap it and stick it up on your wall.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,367 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Turn it into a bird feeder. Or fill it with soil, pop it on a window sill and grow lettuce in it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    What guitar is it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭cichlid child


    0ph0rce0 wrote: »
    What guitar is it?

    The broken one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,130 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    If its an electric with a bolt-on neck, replacing the neck is easy. But bolt on necks don’t tend to break often. So I’m guessing it’s a Gibson electric or an acoustic.

    If it’s any kind of set neck, it’s probably not worth repairing unless the guitar is very good or has sentimental value.

    I’d it’s an acoustic, you could turn it into a shelf

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,413 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Thinly veiled "I can.play the guitar "thread , but not anymore.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Put a clock in it and hang on the wall.


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I wouldn't fret about it.

    I'm a bit highly strung here...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭dirkmeister


    https://youtu.be/hnsQRpgYmaE


    Broken guitar......Jack White says “pfffttttttt”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,125 ✭✭✭trashcan


    If its an electric with a bolt-on neck, replacing the neck is easy. But bolt on necks don’t tend to break often. So I’m guessing it’s a Gibson electric or an acoustic.

    If it’s any kind of set neck, it’s probably not worth repairing unless the guitar is very good or has sentimental value.

    I’d it’s an acoustic, you could turn it into a shelf

    Untitled-collage-13.jpg

    This I like. If I had a broken guitar I'd do something like this, or the clock idea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    I'm a bit highly strung here...

    You guys taking the piss here should be ashamed of yourselves. I'm almost in tears reading about what happened to the OP's guitar. I guess it really struck a chord with me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,757 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    The birdhouse is a nice idea or how about mounting a speaker in it and hanging on the wall so the music lives on.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    I'd prefer to banjax a geether.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I'd prefer to banjax a geether.

    That sounds a bit violent. :eek:

    I've left the guitar in the shed for the weekend. The neck is flopping like a wind-sock so I doubt it'll ever hang up on a wall again, but the birdhouse/shelf/clock/speaker ideas are all fantastic.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,822 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    If its an electric with a bolt-on neck, replacing the neck is easy. But bolt on necks don’t tend to break often. So I’m guessing it’s a Gibson electric or an acoustic.

    If it’s any kind of set neck, it’s probably not worth repairing unless the guitar is very good or has sentimental value.

    I’d it’s an acoustic, you could turn it into a shelf

    Untitled-collage-13.jpg

    I really love this! I was gonna say play it badly but the guitar shelf is a way better idea!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,077 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    I would hit my sister with it, while shouting El kabong!!
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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    If I were a carpenter, I might be able to mend it.

    If I were an artist with studio space I'd turn it into some kind of epic installation.

    Alas, I'm just a punter whose guitar neck splintered, got repaired, then snapped again. What do ye suggest I do with it?


    Electric or acoustic?


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Electric or acoustic?

    Acoustic. Tanglewood.

    Got 10 decent years out of it, until a student left it behind a pile of chairs, and another student moved the chairs without looking behind 'em...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,897 ✭✭✭beachhead


    Join a band.Recreate a genre or start a new one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,734 ✭✭✭Feisar


    I'm a bit highly strung here...

    Dunno why but that struck a chord with me

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,785 ✭✭✭✭greenspurs


    maybe dont put candles in it ....

    Unless you want to create some sort of Jimi Hendrix tribute .... :)

    "Bright lights and Thunder .................... " #NoPopcorn



  • Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭jelem


    rough patch\bodge it together and learn play a few little ditties.
    then play it in public as people fall for gimmicks and would be
    amused\amazed thus you may collect extra "pocket money"
    of course wear a mask.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Use it as a prop in photoshoots with scantily clad ladies.

    I'm sure you can navigate google to find 'inspiration'. ;-)


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    You guys taking the piss here should be ashamed of yourselves. I'm almost in tears reading about what happened to the OP's guitar. I guess it really struck a chord with me.

    I'm not trying to make a song and dance about the string of puns but yizz have some neck. I hope you change your tune and let the OP be in peace and harmony.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    jelem wrote: »
    rough patch\bodge it together and learn play a few little ditties.
    then play it in public as people fall for gimmicks and would be
    amused\amazed thus you may collect extra "pocket money"
    of course wear a mask.

    I should have said, it's been broken since last December. I bought a new, better one as an early Christmas present to myself last year, and have been getting much better at playing it since the first lockdown! :)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,785 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Head to Grafton St and pretend to play it. People will either think you’ve lost it, or it’s an interesting metaphor for how the country is broken and the common man doesn’t have a voice any more.

    Sure, I’ll throw you a €2.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Throw it out?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,297 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    Consider all of the above, and take your pick.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,933 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Throw it out?

    This is the most likely outcome, yes. It'll almost certainly be in a skip by the end of the week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Easily fixable yourself for low cost.

    What you need is Titebond liquid hide wood glue. Luthiers use this. Get it in any decent woodworking supplies place such as Joe McKenna in Limerick or The Carpentry Store in Naas.

    You may also need a few clamps. Cheap ones from Mr. Price will do.

    I am a skill-less fool and I managed it on a 12-string with a very awkwardly split headstock. Leave clamped for 48 hours. The aesthetic was sacrificed (don't care as I don't gig) somewhat but it stilll plays A1 some three years later.

    Back from the dead basically for a sub €30 outlay.


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