I'm still a beginner, had my guitar for a bit more than a year. It's not fancy, but it's the only one I have, and I adore it. I leave it out all the time, so I can play five minutes whenever I want to. I'm no graceful swan. I have: dropped it flat on a hardwood floor; knocked the neck on doorposts a dozen times, walked into the Christmas tree with it, slid it on its back down the deck steps (just caught it before it hit the concrete bottom step); the cat tried to use it as a scratching post and knocked it down; and so on.

There's not a scratch on it.

Apparently Epiphone DR100s are made just for people like me: too tough to traumatise.