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Location: Texas | What kind of hanger was it on? |
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Location: Indiana | My condolences.
Have them save the body for you. They make nice conversation pieces.
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Location: East Tennessee | Major Ouch. The gang at the factory can fix it. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Jonmark, that actually looks like an undamaged body. Stripped, but undamaged. |
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Location: Indiana | Long story short, it didn't make it into the hotel with the rest of the instruments one sub freezing night in Kansas... top split wide open in three places. The good folks in Connecticut made it all better though. |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Jonmark Stone:
Long story short, it didn't make it into the hotel with the rest of the instruments one sub freezing night in Kansas... top split wide open in three places. The good folks in Connecticut made it all better though. They're not bad at that..... |
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Location: Orlando, FL | I guess I'm going to get it fixed, but now I'm on the other side of the "is it still a 1537, if all that's left is the neck" situation.
There just isn't anything that is made like a 1537, or sounds like one... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | As one who has had one rebuilt, I would make the case that it IS still a 1537. A NEW 1537. Different? Definitely. But I've had my totally rebuilt 1537 for about three years now and I'm really enjoying listening to it open up (and I would also say that due to the thinner materials used today, it probably opens up more quickly). Do it. Play it. It's well worth it. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Thanks Weas. That helps a bit. |
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Location: California | Sorry to see what happened. I Know the feeling
:( when you find out that the aged wood top broke! Sure you know by now what the outcome of the repairs are going to be.
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | see below... |
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Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba CANADA | Originally posted by standing:
Despite having wall hangers and guitar racks available, I tend to keep my best guitars in their cases, fearing that children, friends of children, or more likely my own clumsiness might knock one (or more) down if I leave them out for prolonged periods of time.
You just validated my paranoia… +1
Have never been much of a fan of hanging guitars on walls and that set of brutal pictures won't help to change that. Absolutely heartbreaking...
I am so paranoid about wall hangers that when I take a guitar down off the wall in a shop, I find myself going back three times just to be 110% sure that the arms have closed... that it's actually anchored to the wall...
Anybody else do that as well? |
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Location: Tennessee | Stuff happens. With the Hercules hangers I have, you know right away whether it's in and locked or not. Sometimes weird things happen to your guitars. Ask Moody. Guitars that are out get played. I've seen a lot of dinged up tops from case bites, too ... so there you go.
The good thing about Mother is that they know how to make them just like the old ones and they are a small craftsman shop to make them right. Sorry about the old girl 'Zilla, but you are going to be totally stoked with what comes back from the spa. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | The Mothership....and Hercules hangers.....none better
It'll be fine Zilla......cosmetic surgery at it's best
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Location: Orlando, FL | Thanks everyone! I am at least feeling like this will have a good outcome.
I still can't figure out how the hell it stayed up there for 2 days and then just fell. I guess it's time to upgrade my hangers. |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Sorry to hear, but still interested in which kind of hanger it fell from.
Best regards,
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| If I remember right, 'Zilla's got 'em all hanging from String Swings (or similar).
I got all mine on Hercules, with the hangars screwed into an oak plank, and the oak plank lag bolted into the wall studs. I tested the mounts by hanging my full weight (all 250 lbs/114 Kg) from each hangar. Shouldn't have a problem.
Steve, my friend, I still get sick every time I see those pictures. I'm sure Keller and the gang will do a superb job, better than new. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Yes, they were string swings. Again, it wasn't a hanger failure. The guitar must not have been fully seated in the hanger. But I have no doubt that it would definitely have been seated properly on a Hercules hanger. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | While I don't do the hanger thing, I have upgraded all my guitar stands to Hercules...with kids etc. while they are out I feel they are safe...then, back in the cases... |
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Location: south east Michigan | As the Black Knight sayeth...
"Tis but a flesh wound." |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Well for good or bad, my guitars are all out and ready to be played.
And they all pretty much get played. My son and his friends are free to grab the guitars and play. That's what they are for. I have found them to be very careful and respectful of the instruments.
And yes, I did check to see if anyone else had used the 1537 after me. But it looks like I was the last. For acoustics they mostly play my Adamas II, Country Artist, the National, and the 1538. I've actually never seen any of them pick up the 1537.
I love my guitars, but they are meant to be played. Also, my wife thinks of them as decorations for the house and likes to see them on the wall, how can I argue with that? |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Hey Steve, when you buy the Elite Bass I'll through in a Hercules hanger. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Originally posted by cholloway:
Hey Steve, when you buy the Elite Bass I'll through in a Hercules hanger. :D |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Those Hercules hangers are so good I'm surprised anybody even bothers with the competition. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I use 55 wall hangers of various makes and models. Most of the hanger kit is discarded, then using the exposed threaded rod on the backside of the hanger itself, I fabricate custom braces or other types of attachments depending upon where the hanger is going. Not all go on the wall. A dozen are off the ceiling, another dozen or so are attached to metal racks, and I've even fabricated some horizontal hangers (Temp's award winning units weren't yet available). Knock wood, I've never had a guitar fall off a hanger. Then again, nobody uses the room but me, and there are no children in the house (other than me :) ). I have, however, tipped numerous guitars over that were sitting in stands due to clumsiness, negligence, tight and crowded spaces, yanking on a cable that gets tangled up with stand leg, etc. That's one of the reasons I prefer Adamas guitars. They're (almost) indestructible. |
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AAAAARRRRGGGGG! 1537...
