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Molly wrote:
telefiend wrote:Your pain is our pain. Reminds me of that time I bought a 5 pack of undies a size too small and stubbornly stuck with them.
Life's too short for that. If you can't reach down to adjust your pedals without your spuds falling out then those pants need to go.
Oh the spuds weren't going anywhere. Squished in tight they were. Child raising I won't be doing.

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

Can't believe the guy is still in business.
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Fuck bro that’s bad aye
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Zaulkin wrote:I've seen so much, but its probably lots of little weird things than anything horrendous. Like a an electric I bought that had completely fucked intonation, and that had been given an acoustic string in place of the regular B string. And there were several other bits that were glued on an destined to fail if the guitar were probably adjusted - clearly made that way to look good enough to get a sale and thats all.

I saw a horrendous body that had been originally made by Ash and butchered by some guy on TM. Completely full of epoxy and several other weird arrangements. Ash actually made me a new body for free as a swap just to get it off trademe and so that he could destroy it.

I know the body you mean!!!! I saw it when I was up in his workshop!!!! hahahahahah!!!
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Once bought a car for a friend of mine. 1996 curren. 3sfe 5 speed.
Within 15 minutes it’d shot a rod.

That was a shit night.
werdna wrote:Well at least I can still make toast in the bath without anyone telling me it's unsafe.

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foal30 wrote:Fairly recently I made the foolish mistake to clean the Music Room
I had some gear on the deck including an MTD in a stand and a roller chair...

A wind as foul as if it was emitted from Satan's anus took sudden arise turning said chair into a bowling bar and said Bass into skittles

Luckily Alan F repaired...
Satan's anus has a lot to answer for I bet :lol:
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I bought an iRig HD off Conway last week. Normally such things end up in a drawer never to be used, because the idea is always greater than the actual, but this weekend I made a concerted effort and plugged it into my iPad.

With Amplitube loaded into Garage Band it sounded pretty nice, dialed in some nice cleans, good bit of British bite, some dirty blues... Then selected modern metal tones and it immediately went into some weird loop, then went silent and gave me an error message "Error: device not supported". Despite my best efforts it remained silent, so it appears I broke it with metal.

(internetting indicates it is a relatively common issue... the error message, not breaking it with metal, just got to work through the various suggested fixes).
The older I get, the more disappointed in myself I become.

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Ryan

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StrummersOfThunder wrote:Ryan
I can feel your pain from here...

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A number of close calls, but no horror stories, which is surprising how many transactions I've done over the years.

I got a lot of "good outcome stories".
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GrantB wrote:A number of close calls, but no horror stories, which is surprising how many transactions I've done over the years.

I got a lot of "good outcome stories".
I'd value those as well Grant, we could do with some balance or we will all get very cynical in this thread!

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Yes please with the good vibes.

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olegmcnoleg wrote:
GrantB wrote:A number of close calls, but no horror stories, which is surprising how many transactions I've done over the years.

I got a lot of "good outcome stories".
I'd value those as well Grant, we could do with some balance or we will all get very cynical in this thread!
Yeah, I thought that. I'm really struggling to think of a horror story. Always fear that statistically it's just around the corner.

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Two words:

GOOD KICKING

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Ooooh has someone got a DSL for sale?!??????!!!!!???
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