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My guitar class at college was over and I put my Jackson SLSMG back in my gig back to get ready to walk back to my apartment. I also was tending to unplugging my amp, bagging it up (rain showers were in the area), and listening to the professor talk some more about what we are working on in class and so needless to say, I forgot to zip up my gig back all the way and left it partly open at the bottom. Long story short, once I put my gig back on my back, the guitar slipped out, fell to the ground and hit the floor with the bottom strap button taking the most impact and then it proceeded to fall strings first to the ground. Needless to say I was heartbroken and still feel like a major idiot right now for not making sure my guitar was secure. 
Immediately after it dropped, my professor quickly came over and examined it all over and he said the guitar was ok. Somehow, there are no dents on it, no scratches, and there looks to be no cracks in the wood anywhere on the neck or the headstock. The only thing wrong was that the strap button was jarred loose from the impact but I tightened it back up later at my apartment and aside from some of the soft material that is placed between the button and the body now being gone or not in place as before, the strap button is secure and tight again as it was before.
I haven't really examined any other aspects of the guitar such as setup, action, intonation, etc or neck adjustment. But I want to be absolutely sure that the instrument is ok. Has anyone here had a similar experience and found that their setup or neck adjustment was all out of whack and needed to be re-done? Is there anything else I need to examine on the guitar? Could the neck possibly be warped or damaged from the fall even though the angle looks the same as it was before and I see no wood cracks? If I examine the tuning stability more and find that it is going out of tune a lot, might the guitar have any other major problems?
Immediately after it dropped, my professor quickly came over and examined it all over and he said the guitar was ok. Somehow, there are no dents on it, no scratches, and there looks to be no cracks in the wood anywhere on the neck or the headstock. The only thing wrong was that the strap button was jarred loose from the impact but I tightened it back up later at my apartment and aside from some of the soft material that is placed between the button and the body now being gone or not in place as before, the strap button is secure and tight again as it was before.
I haven't really examined any other aspects of the guitar such as setup, action, intonation, etc or neck adjustment. But I want to be absolutely sure that the instrument is ok. Has anyone here had a similar experience and found that their setup or neck adjustment was all out of whack and needed to be re-done? Is there anything else I need to examine on the guitar? Could the neck possibly be warped or damaged from the fall even though the angle looks the same as it was before and I see no wood cracks? If I examine the tuning stability more and find that it is going out of tune a lot, might the guitar have any other major problems?
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