My guitar receives much abuse mainly because I get carried away playing guitar, doing the whole headbanging thing then realising that the headstock of my guitar is stuck in the walll I know thats not the way your supposed to treat an 800 dollar guitar but i really cant help it. Im also a rather short and clumbsy person which means when I transport my guitar, I usually knock it around a fair bit. My solution to this was to buy a hardcase. I never looked back since, ive saved my guitar and wallet on numerous occations and if i had never bought one, my guitar would be in peices and so would I because as much as I abuse it, its because I love it so much in the first place.Cheers