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What mods did you do on the combo and how much did you spend on parts?

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Thanks for the tip, jimi. New amp is alot quieter. May have only been a few bad tubes after all. There's 12 of them in there and I noticed on the old one some of them were barely glowing. Much healthier, even glow coming from the tubes in the new amp.

How much are they going for?

After a few more troubleshooting e-mails back and forth, Avi told me to bring the amp down to the factory and they would fix it or replace it with a new one. The factory is only a half hour south of me in Huntington Park, CA. So I drove down this morning and got there when they open at 7 AM...

My second on-line guitar buying experience went well also. Last December I hooked into the 1964 "USA" Epiphone Sheraton deal. A top of the line Epi ($3400.00 list) for $999.00 from MF. Arrived perfectly set up and tuned. Well, ok, one of the strings was down a half step. Two outta two, so far.

Yes. That's the thing. If you pay the extra money for a really good new guitar now, the expensive, choice woods are going to age well and sound even better as time passes.

I've got a Gibson BR8 lap slide from the 1950's. For a new one these look pretty nice for the money: http://www.elderly.com/fmic/items/FS52.htm I'm considering getting one myself.

Yes. The amount of time needed to pass before something is deemed 'vintage' seems to shrink every year. As misused and overused a term as 'classic'.

It's been a while since I last repped jimi. He may have one coming.

The Elitist Custom only $1100 with case. That's still at least a grand or two cheaper than the Gibson version. You could probably get it for less than $1100 with some shopping around and creative haggling.

Some Elitist models are equal if not higher quality than equivalent Gibsons. Compare some Elitist Customs to Gibson Customs before you buy.

Is it ok to us masking tape to keep a floating bridge in place? Just asking because I want to remove all strings so I can polish the pickups and hardware. Will the glue in regular masking tape mar the finish on a guitar?

What's with the typewriter font, bongo? Welcome back. Haven't seen you around these parts in awhile. Your posts are always very informative.

No, nowhere near one. Thanks for all the responses everyone.

I e-mailed B-52 yesterday and the owner responded today. Here's what he wrote: I'm going to fool around with it a bit more tonight. I'm going to try some more electrical outlets and a new power cord also. If that doesn't work I guess it goes in for warrantee repair or back to GC for a refund...

Someone with a very small dick neg-repped me for this thread and called me a "moron". How do I know he has a tiny dick: 1. Because he was afraid to sign his name to it. 2. Because he has little or no rep himself and his red chicklet had no effect on my rep.

The Strat is a little noisier but now after trying a couple of different kinds of guitars I've found it's not the guitar. I called the amp maker and he said to try a new guitar cord. So I went back to GC and got a 40 dollar monster cable guitar cord. The amp is pretty quiet but I still get the...

Ok. I was fiddling around some more and it seems the hum/buzz appears when I plug the guitar cord into either input jack on amp. Doesn't matter if other end of cord is plugged into guitar or not. Still the hum/buzz.

I plugged my Strat into my new amp and it buzzes really loud. Use middle position on the 5 way and buzz is reduced considerably. Thought it might be the cord or the amp but I tried out a few other guitars with the same chord and there is no prominent buzz so it has to be the guitar. How to fix?