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If you want a broken amp feel free to bid on mine :lol:

Ooh here’s another g rated horror story:
2011, James wants a small amp for pissing around with because an ac30 is just immense.
So I go buy this tiny little Jansen thing. 20 odd watts, all solid state. 12” speaker, volume and tone and that’s that.

15 minutes later it just stops.
Not sure why.
No power no nothing.

I think I got most of the purchase price back - $125 or something total. Props to the dude who sold it to me but yeh.
werdna wrote:Well at least I can still make toast in the bath without anyone telling me it's unsafe.

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telefiend wrote:Yes please with the good vibes.
Maybe it's perspective that helps out. I've had plenty of things go wrong etc...but the process of getting them sorted has always delivered some kind of silver lining. Life is too short to dwell on shyte.
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Ding ding!

also it’s called horror stories for a reason :lol:
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My Grandad had a pre-WW2 Dobro that my grandmother gave away in the seventies because it was old. Kept the tenor banjos he had though.
Tin arse!!

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I think I just aged 10 years
werdna wrote:Well at least I can still make toast in the bath without anyone telling me it's unsafe.

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GrantB wrote:
telefiend wrote:Yes please with the good vibes.
Maybe it's perspective that helps out. I've had plenty of things go wrong etc...but the process of getting them sorted has always delivered some kind of silver lining. Life is too short to dwell on shyte.
That's the kind of thing I was hoping to see in this thread. I'm sure we've all had some horror stories but they don't have to turn into a whinge session. One can almost always try to see the positive side of a frustrating/traumatising event.

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Terexgeek wrote:My Grandad had a pre-WW2 Dobro that my grandmother gave away in the seventies because it was old. Kept the tenor banjos he had though.
I knew a woman who let her kids play in the street with a 1910 Gibson B-series mandolin. She had no idea what it was worth. (I did try to explain)

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olegmcnoleg wrote:
Terexgeek wrote:My Grandad had a pre-WW2 Dobro that my grandmother gave away in the seventies because it was old. Kept the tenor banjos he had though.
I knew a woman who let her kids play in the street with a 1910 Gibson B-series mandolin. She had no idea what it was worth. (I did try to explain)
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It was a cold, dark, stormy night...

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olegmcnoleg wrote:
Terexgeek wrote:My Grandad had a pre-WW2 Dobro that my grandmother gave away in the seventies because it was old. Kept the tenor banjos he had though.
I knew a woman who let her kids play in the street with a 1910 Gibson B-series mandolin. She had no idea what it was worth. (I did try to explain)
I'm sure Tarantino can incorporate that into his next movie somehow...

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codedog wrote:
olegmcnoleg wrote:
Terexgeek wrote:My Grandad had a pre-WW2 Dobro that my grandmother gave away in the seventies because it was old. Kept the tenor banjos he had though.
I knew a woman who let her kids play in the street with a 1910 Gibson B-series mandolin. She had no idea what it was worth. (I did try to explain)
I'm sure Tarantino can incorporate that into his next movie somehow...
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codedog wrote:
GrantB wrote:
telefiend wrote:Yes please with the good vibes.
Maybe it's perspective that helps out. I've had plenty of things go wrong etc...but the process of getting them sorted has always delivered some kind of silver lining. Life is too short to dwell on shyte.
That's the kind of thing I was hoping to see in this thread. I'm sure we've all had some horror stories but they don't have to turn into a whinge session. One can almost always try to see the positive side of a frustrating/traumatising event.

Indeed. Along the range of traumatising events, x showed up a bit broken/y routed a hole in my z is pretty low.

Unless y routed a hole in your '62 strat or something...

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Sanctuary wrote:This one: http://nzguitars.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... an#p725589

Can't believe the guy is still in business.
I've had no dealings with this particular gentleman but certainly remember my bullshit detectors screaming at the promotional material he blitzed out when he first appeared on the Wellington scene.
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Bought a DSL40 from a chap in the sticks near Whangarei. Drove all the way up to collect it. On plugging it in, quietest 40w amp I've ever heard in my life! Trip into Ryan (the Ryan of old) and a few hundred on a replacement transformer and it was going again. No recompense from the seller. Bugger.

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Life is a beautiful horror story. I look at my garden and it's cycle of birth, sex and death.
2024; I have explored the extent of the perimeter dome, there is no escape. I am become Morpheus

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