How much gear would you guess is ruined yearly?

[stflbn]

Just something I often think about...


How much good, quality gear would you guess is ruined yearly by people who either have no clue about their gear, just don't take time to learn, or frankly don't care?

Frustrating to see threads every week from people that you know are blowing their stuff up due to lack of understanding and will do it again, and again...



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[panaran]

I had a decent amount of gear ruined in a flood a month or two ago. Does that count?

 

[lowendgenerator]

My guitar player just blew up a nice ADA power amp this weekend, shower of sparks and all! It was sweet!

 

[ksandvik]

I've yet to see that has happened with the musicians I play with or jam with. Then again they are good.

 

[MooseLumps]

$300,000-$2,000,000 By ignorance, poor understanding, bad advice.
$1,000,000-$5,000,000 By natural disaster (flood, earthquake, jabberwocky)
$2,000,000-$10,000,000 By fire (arson, accident, misguided revenge)
$12,000,000-$30,000,000 By UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, Guitar center/Musician’s friend Conglomerate

My completely unsubstantiated, unscientific opinion with no ground to stand on

 

[b_carville]

Working part time in a small music shop,I can tell you lots of ignorance stories.

A lot of times people get old instruments/amps handed down/given to them.They fall out of playing or lose intrest & they leave them sit some where or they modify them.

Here's a list of some stuff I've seen:

1966 Fender P bass with a Kahler bass tremolo.

1957 Les Paul Standard with a locking Floyd Rose (I didn't know you could slap one on a Paul).

1947 Martin D-45 with multi colored Magic Marker psychedelic drawlings drawn directly on it(not a good job. I think the solvent in the markers helped destroy the finish).

Tons of seventies Fender guitars with Floyd Rose trems. That can kind of be excused. You needed one to do bar rock work & in the 80's nobody thought those instruments would become valuable.

Many ,many 50's & 60's Fender ,Gibson, Martin & Guild guitars & basses that were forgotten & brought in mildewed,rotted outmisused and rendered unplayable.

I should add myself to the butthole list. Back in the swingin'60's we took many a used Fender tweed amp(bassman,deluxe,twin),put the amp section in a homemade cabinet to look like a Marshall head & then turned the tweed cabinets into homemade strobe lights!

Nobody wanted an amp that looked like your Granpop's tweed luggage.

 

[rustynuts]

The second guitarist in my son's old band fried a Madison tube head because he had no idea how to use one. It was sad....The amp sounded really good before that.

 

[RickenBoogie]

When I was an ignorant young teen, I blew up 4 15" spkrs with a '72 Fender Bassman 100 and my mom's old tube powered radio/phonograph as a "preamp" in front of it. They weren't my cabs. I had to give the guy my car as repayment.

 

[MooseLumps]

WELL, I remember the time that a guitard knocked my SWR Henry off the back of the stage leading to a six-foot drop and every magnet poped off every speaker, and the cab shattered.

I suppose I have some basis

I hate morons, does that count as hate speech?

 

[jim_bass]

I was half way through a gig in our university bar a few years ago, when the (borrowed) bass amp just died. Turned out some idiot put a 3amp fuse in the power lead!

Now I never borrow equipment.

(I once blew up my old cassette walkman by plugging it into my Commodore 64 power supply. At 8 years old I didn't know what all those numbers meant )

 

[ALiP BoB]

Working part time in a small music shop,I can tell you lots of ignorance stories.

A lot of times people get old instruments/amps handed down/given to them.They fall out of playing or lose intrest & they leave them sit some where or they modify them.

Here's a list of some stuff I've seen:

1966 Fender P bass with a Kahler bass tremolo.

1957 Les Paul Standard with a locking Floyd Rose (I didn't know you could slap one on a Paul).

1947 Martin D-45 with multi colored Magic Marker psychedelic drawlings drawn directly on it(not a good job. I think the solvent in the markers helped destroy the finish).

Tons of seventies Fender guitars with Floyd Rose trems. That can kind of be excused. You needed one to do bar rock work & in the 80's nobody thought those instruments would become valuable.

Many ,many 50's & 60's Fender ,Gibson, Martin & Guild guitars & basses that were forgotten & brought in mildewed,rotted outmisused and rendered unplayable.

Sad but true, things like these do happen.

Kinda like slapping emo stickers on a hand-me-down Fodera.

 

[rustynuts]

Sad but true, things like these do happen.

Kinda like slapping emo stickers on a hand-me-down Fodera.

Yeah, but at least with the emo stickers all you get is a discolored patch on the finish, not a gouged out body.