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worst you've broken a bass.

#4
In the early 80s sometime, I watched in horror as my Alembic Series 1 fell over from its guitar stand and the headstock (well, the part of the neck where the tuners are) broke right off. I was positively horrified. A drunk woman jumped on the stage on my side and ran across the front of the stage toward the guitar player (figures, right?). It was quite a scene, the headstock flying violently from the strings releasing suddenly. We stopped the set, I regained my composure, and packed the parts up as best I could. When I got home, I check with the old piano tuner in town that built his own soundboards and pin blocks, figuring he knew a thing or two about glueing wooded things under a lot of tension. He managed to glue the headstock back on. I wish I knew what glue he used, but I can't remember. We let it sit for 4 days, then we put strings on, raising them to pitch slowly. The repair held, and I played the bass for another 3 years, finally selling it to another player, with full disclosure about the repair, who played it for many years, when I finally lost track of him.
 
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#5
I broke my Aria Pro II's output too.

I think I by accident stepped on the jack plug which caused the rather thin wood around the output socket to rip up an make a hole in the bass.

Luckily nothing happened to either the wires or the solders, so I fixed it right away myself by cutting out some metal from a tin can and some plastic from a medicine container's lid, made a hole for the output socket to fit in and then glued it on from the back inside of the bass with some super glue.

It doesn't exactly look pretty, but it works, and then again it was never the most beautiful bass out there to begin with, and by that time I had another and better main bass anyway.

Oh, I also managed to break it's pickup switch, you know literally break the small metal pin, simply by using it intensely, you know wiggle it back and forth rapidly for changing characteristics of the feedback sound when making noise, which surprised me since it is made of metal. The actual switch function still works though, just a little harder to get hold of the switch.

I'm a little more careful with my Mikro, even though it has cost me less.

I did manage to drop that too though, due to me carrying too much stuff and the one strap gig bag it comes with, but luckily the only thing that happened was cosmetic.

A big chunk of the finish came off on the back close to the upper edge of the lower part of the body.
 
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#7
Worse I've done was chip the finish on a guitar while tossing an empty beer bottle around like an idiot. Friend of mine though snapped the headstock off his Stiletto custom via smacking it into my other friends cymbals at shows.
 
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Watched a buddies Ric 4001 get knocked off it's stand by a drunken idiot at a college gig, the head snapped off and whanged back into the body, leaving a nice big ding. He wept bitter tears of woe. In my hack college band, the drummer took an overzealous solo, flung a stick and put a nice drumstick head-sized ding between the bridge and rear pup on my Jetglo Ric. More bitter tears.
 
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Double E said:
Sawed the heastock off my Beatle Bass copy...I was bound and determined to make a headless bass. The project ended right after I cut off the headstock and realized I was in over my head. I wish I hadn't done that to my very first bass, no matter how crappy it was.
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Do you still have it?
That sounds like a fun project, throwing a headstock back on that is.
 
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#15
I snapped the truss rod on my Mayones BE Exotic. I don't know, 8 maybe 9 months ago. Looked into getting it fixed at the time, but had no money. I have been using it and it is solid, plays great and the neck has not moved after an initial very slight bow. I am shocked actually that it is still playable. It stays in tune gig after gig after week after month, so I am going to keep using it. I am looking into a new neck from Mayones but have not progressed very far with that.
 
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Bumped my Squier Precision Special into door stocks, ceilings, walls, etc. numerous times without a scratch. I even threw it at our singer once when she was teasing me that I don't have the balls to do it. Ofcourse she didn't catch it. The only thing that happened was that the bridge side strap knob screw got a little bent but it was a Schaller straplock screw. Screwed it out and in again and I still use it that way, holds as it should.
Squiers are freaking terminators!
 
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