DjangoBooks.com
Welcome to our Community!
Categories
- 18.2K All Categories
- 445 General
- 286 Welcome
- 11 Archtop Eddy's Corner
- 82 CD, DVD, and Concert Reviews
- 38 FAQ
- 9 Gypsy Jazz Italia
- 19 Photos
- 27 Gypsy Picking
- 4 Unaccompanied Django
- 4 Pearl Django Play-Along Vol.1
- 1 Gypsy Fire
- 26 Gypsy Rhythm
- 605 Gypsy Jazz University - Get Educated
- 117 Gypsy Jazz 101
- 191 Repertoire
- 144 History
- 96 Technique
- 40 Licks and Patterns
- Daniel Givone Manouche Guitare Method Users Group
- 17 Eddie Lang Club
- 1.1K Gypsy Jazz Gear
- 700 Guitars, Strings, Picks, Amps, Pickups and Other Accessories
- 352 Classifieds
- 41 Recording
- 39 Other Instruments
- 17 Violin
- 3 Mandolin
- 6 Accordion
- 3 Bass
- 10 Woodwinds
- 223 Gypsy Jazz Events
- 87 North America
- 87 Europe
- 49 International
In this Discussion
Who's Online 0
Today's Birthdays
Beware the propane heater!
Lango-Django
Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator
I do an annual outdoor freebie for the local Rotary Christmas house tour, playing Christmas carols over backing tracks.
And my playing must have been super hot yesterday, because my guitar caught fire!
Well not actually.
My guitar did catch on fire, though.
What really happened was that my guitar has white celluloid binding around the head.
And it turns out that celluloid has a bad habit of bursting into flame when it reaches a certain temperature.
And little did I suspect that just playing close to a propane heater would make it reach that certain temperature.
Remember when you were a kid roasting marshmallows, and suddenly yours would catch fire so you’d have to blow on it to put it out?
Yeah, it was just like that.
I was able to blow it out pretty quickly and the damage was just cosmetic… some of the binding has simply disappeared, and the wood at the end of the headstock is all burnt out and resembles charcoal.
So I’m waiting for a repair quote from my guitar tech and hopefully the Rotary Club will cover it, we shall see.
Anyway- be super careful playing near propane heaters!
Merry Christmas,
Will
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Comments
😲
Sorry Will...holy cow, never considered that. So, the temperature wasn't uncomfortably hot for you to sit there? How did it feel for you?
That is crazy, wow!
This thread does beg for this however...PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN! 😀
Don't repair that! A caramelized marshmallow headstock sounds like some serious mojo
Yeah I guess battle scars are kind of cool.. what do you think?
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
Hell yeah!
Seriously, don't bother. Imagine how many friendships you'll miss out on without people asking you what the heck happened there?
PS In one year if you look at it and think this is driving me nuts, then repair it...
PPS but if they'll pay for it, then I'd fix it because the offer won't last forever...
Looks like it "used" to be a nice guitar. Is it an Ivanovski?
I might just do the job myself if need be.
I wouldn’t mess with the burnt wood at all but just replace the binding.
And definitely not the cellulose binding this time.
Stewmac has some nice ones…
Have any of you guitar nerds ever tried to do your own binding job? What was it like?
Will
Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."
Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
I concur…Hell Yeah. Greatness, could have been worse!
And it turns out that celluloid has a bad habit of bursting into flame when it reaches a certain temperature.
You don't say! Just ask Django. You must have been creeping into the trailer late at night....