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Ruhar Joined: Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 3909 San Diego, CA	Posted on Oct 27 2008 04:12 PM Ben no geetar for 3 months That sucks Ben! Here's to a quick recovery — Ryan The Secret Samurai Website The Secret Samurai on Facebook Top
Ben Joined: Feb 11, 2007 Posts: 591 Encinitas, Ca	Posted on Oct 27 2008 04:13 PM relax guys...nobody is bashing your religions. let's not go there. anybody else got any interesting oweeies? Top
Brian Joined: Feb 25, 2006 Posts: 19321 Des Moines, Iowa, USA	Posted on Oct 27 2008 04:14 PM I hope you recover quickly and completely Ben. — Site dude - S3 Agent #202 Need help with the site? SG101 FAQ - Send me a private message - Email me "It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea Top
Kman1 Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Posts: 694 Surf City	Posted on Oct 27 2008 04:15 PM Wow, sorry just specifying, if this wasn't SG101, I would've gone to more detail, BTW, it's Freshman, not 7th Grader. Your school system means nothing to me. — Sonichris I also like to think that all early 60's fender equipment is happy to be playing surf music again. After all, its the music it was meant to play. Top
dp Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 3546 mojave desert, california	Posted on Oct 27 2008 04:23 PM About 12 years ago, I severed the extensor tendon in my right index finger: I couldn't straighten my finger and point anymore! As a bassist, this injury truly sucked: that finger is my main plucking finger! Anyway, a hand Dr. did surgery and hooked me back together. After I healed, had to do finger exercises in order to reduce the stiffness. Eventually, things went back to normal, but I still have a gnarly scar on that finger. (ps: the lesson learned from this incident? PULL the socket wrench towards you....never EVER EVER PUSH it away from you with a closed grip...you will surely slip and find the jagged sheet metal edge of your Econoline's engine compartment!) Top
bigtikidude Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 25648 Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.	Posted on Oct 27 2008 04:27 PM get well soon Ben. — Jeff(bigtikidude) Top
Kman1 Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Posts: 694 Surf City	Posted on Oct 27 2008 04:28 PM I wish I could get you a burrito, Ben. — Sonichris I also like to think that all early 60's fender equipment is happy to be playing surf music again. After all, its the music it was meant to play. Top
Ben Joined: Feb 11, 2007 Posts: 591 Encinitas, Ca	Posted on Oct 27 2008 04:49 PM thanks for the encouragement guys. Kman, thank you too on the burrito offer but i'd hate to see you wipe out your surfboard fund. hang in there bro'. Top
Kman1 Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Posts: 694 Surf City	Posted on Oct 27 2008 04:51 PM Thanks, get well soon. — Sonichris I also like to think that all early 60's fender equipment is happy to be playing surf music again. After all, its the music it was meant to play. Top
Surfabilly Joined: Apr 21, 2006 Posts: 852 Connersville, Indiana, USA	Posted on Oct 27 2008 05:15 PM Back in July 1997, I stepped off-balance in the kitchen, and as I put my arms out to help re-steady myself, my left hand crashed into the corner of a cabinet. Long story short, from here, I severed the nerves that run alongside the 5th metacarpal (bone between the wrist and pinky finger). This was at a time when I was looking to take lessons/learn chords, but a neuropathy developed where the severed nerves grew back together, and my left pinky finger isn't any good for fretting on guitar or bass. I still need to put up my poster of standard tuning chords, and figure out which ones I can do without the pinky involved. Otherwise, my playing style is somewhat of a cross between Django Reinhart and Keith Richards. It always amazes me at what I can learn to play, without even making barre chords in some instances, even if I have to travel up and down the neck a bit more for some things. Matt — Fast Cars & Loud Guitars! Top
tommyalvarado Joined: Jan 03, 2008 Posts: 512 Delaware, USA	Posted on Oct 27 2008 05:49 PM I once thought about smacking my hand with a ball peen hammer so I'd have an excuse for my bad playing... Top
donsdad Joined: May 20, 2008 Posts: 169 NW Florida	Posted on Oct 27 2008 06:08 PM I got lucky I guess. I cut my left pinky finger to the bone on a piece of tin that I was trying to bend without adequate gloves. After I got sewn up it took several months for me to be able to straighten it and regain full usage but I did. It's still tingly after 3 years. The worst part was that I sold my first G&L Legacy ,not expecting to recover. Top
Kman1 Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Posts: 694 Surf City	Posted on Oct 27 2008 06:25 PM That's a shame Donsdad. — Sonichris I also like to think that all early 60's fender equipment is happy to be playing surf music again. After all, its the music it was meant to play. Top
surferXmatt Joined: Aug 27, 2008 Posts: 1570 New York	Posted on Oct 27 2008 07:48 PM No need to pray for me because I am not religious by any means. Sounds like some of you have had some really bad injuries, far worse than mine. Top
MissingLink Joined: Jul 23, 2008 Posts: 488 Edge of the East China Sea	Posted on Oct 27 2008 11:01 PM If I haven't missed the boat on this thread (damn this time zone difference!), here's my two cents' worth. Once when I was making wedge shims for a rear axle swap, I cut through my left index finger with a hacksaw. Not all the way, although I thought it was gone at first because there was so much blood everywhere. Later, I broke my right pinky behind the knuckle in a boxing mishap. The doctor put a splint on it and said to come back in three weeks. When I did, he found the fracture (actually a complete snap) had already healed back together, in the wrong position. This meant breaking the bone again. Medieval as it sounds, one doctor held my shoulders from behind while the other tied a length of gauze around the finger and yanked on it until it snapped. After a few months, I was able to close the hand properly again. This stuff happened before I ever picked up a guitar, but the relevance to injured fellow SG101ers is that -- as much as I'd like to blame my guitar playing on some kind of disability -- there hasn't been any long-term impairment from either injury. Take care, and good luck with the healing process. Top
Kman1 Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Posts: 694 Surf City	Posted on Oct 28 2008 06:26 PM Oww, I just smashed my hand on the edge of a whiteboard my dad has, it's going to be fine, I hope, but it's numb, and I feel heat coursing through it. I also was kicked in the fingers by accident, and it smashed my thumb in, and it got better, but I couldn't feel it for a while. I have trouble gripping things, it's gone away, but not completely, it's been two weeks, so I'm kind of confused. — Sonichris I also like to think that all early 60's fender equipment is happy to be playing surf music again. After all, its the music it was meant to play. Top
HBkahuna Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 1778 Star, Idaho. Formerly lived in Surf City USA.	Posted on Oct 28 2008 06:32 PM Perhaps a poll to determine how long it will take you to recover will help. Top
Kman1 Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Posts: 694 Surf City	Posted on Oct 28 2008 06:37 PM I went to Polls anonymous group. I'm finally over them, you did bring up some old wounds Kahuna. — Sonichris I also like to think that all early 60's fender equipment is happy to be playing surf music again. After all, its the music it was meant to play. Top
HBkahuna Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 1778 Star, Idaho. Formerly lived in Surf City USA.	Posted on Oct 28 2008 06:41 PM Kman1 I went to Polls anonymous group. I'm finally over them, you did bring up some old wounds Kahuna. I hope you are not too traumatized by the experience. Top
Kman1 Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Posts: 694 Surf City	Posted on Oct 28 2008 06:43 PM It's ok. sniff — Sonichris I also like to think that all early 60's fender equipment is happy to be playing surf music again. After all, its the music it was meant to play. Top

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