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I dropped my electric guitar

UncleWai

UncleWai

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Am I screwed? I missed the guitar stand and dropped the guitar.
Now it's completely whacked. What can be the source of the problem?
 
If the truss rod is broken (unlikely), there will be excessive neck rattle, and the guitar will most likely have to be replaced. What brand/model is it?
 
/i'm willing to bet you a large sum of imaginary money that it is fine. Just tune it. If it's a floating trem and you broke a string, then change the string lol.

What guitar is it?(model, colour is unimportant 😛)

Are you sure it's not just a broken string somewhere or other? Guitars don't normally break if you drop them. Well, in my experience anyway. A bassist I know crashed (rolled) his car, with bass on the backseat, and it was fine. Still is fine. It falls over regularly lol.

Have one of the strings sort of frayed apart at the bridge? Re-string it, if it's still a problem, then it might be screwed.

Pics?
 
Ok, I think I got A, D, G retuned, I think. But Low E just sounds way off, way higher than it should.
 
Unless it is a floating tremolo model, then there's no reason it can't be tuned. Trust me, missing a stand and dropping a guitar on the floor is not going to break it.
 
I threw my guitar and the strap came off the straplock and it went flying. Only thing wrong besides a huge crack in the finish was a broken solder joint from when I did a sh!tty job soldering in my pickup. It's a good idea to do a once over. Open the panel up on the back and make sure everything looks okay. If it's a strat with a pickguard, you'll have to take the strings off.
 
Originally posted by: UncleWai
Ok, I think I got A, D, G retuned, I think. But Low E just sounds way off, way higher than it should.
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So lower it..... generally, twist the tuning peg clockwise.
 
The only way to even begin to get it back in tune is to take your strings off, dip them in coco butter and meditate on top of them for an hour. You have to be naked, of course....the more ass hair you have, the more immediate the effect.....
 
i dropped a guitar once from about 1.5 feet and after that it made a buzzing noise on the frets when it was played.
 
Originally posted by: dwell
Originally posted by: pontifex
i dropped a guitar once from about 1.5 feet and after that it made a buzzing noise on the frets when it was played.
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Your truss rod is out of whack.
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thats what my friend thought. he tried to fix it but i don't think it worked. i ended up selling it to him because when you played loud, you couldn't really hear it.
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: dwell
Originally posted by: pontifex
i dropped a guitar once from about 1.5 feet and after that it made a buzzing noise on the frets when it was played.
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Your truss rod is out of whack.
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thats what my friend thought. he tried to fix it but i don't think it worked. i ended up selling it to him because when you played loud, you couldn't really hear it.
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Yeah, it's a good thing, because if he screwed it up even more you could have had a bowed neck.
 
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