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The older I get the more of a routine I get into about making sure I don't ding or harm my guitars. When I was younger I'd leave a guitar resting against an amp or chair or whatever. The idea is to look at it like it's a newborn baby. With some people, the way their guitars get damaged, the infant would be dead, its fontanel completely caved in. I am forever mystified how people can drop a guitar or let them fall when they would not let that happen with, say, a tray of food bought at a ball game. I have one guitar I don't care about dinging. I got it beat up 20 years ago and I leave it out and don't wash my hands or wipe it down when I play it. My nice guitars are always in their cases until I pull them out. Hands clean. And I treat them like newborn infants. Knock on wood, I have not as much as bumped a guitar that's important to me going on 16 years. One thing to watch out for: when playing onstage, some crazy dude might make a sudden move and swing his headstock into yours. That's happened a couple of times.
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