bobbilynn you are not eccentric, or that crazy lady.
The world needs more of your resourcefulness.
We all pray for your strength and for your husband to return strong.
Thinking of that, a selfish turn that might inspire others.
It's about the strength of relationships and saving hopeless stuff.
Copied from my gear forums, this is what we did:
Peavey Mark III Restoration
Was talking with and old friend and I joked I don't post about 80% of what I do
for amp work because most simply wouldn't give a shat in a shredder forum.
Radio restorations, and Cygnus builds (which might pop up in the classifieds), etc.
Well here's something I can only take a little credit for but it's a cool story.
In my never ending quest to get a bass that actually fit my hands (long story), I decided to sell my 5 string two octave Dean Edge to a guy at work that wants to take up the bass.
I'll be shopping for a jazz bass to fulfill my own needs.
I reminded him that although that's all the bass guitar he'll ever need for quite some time, he will be spending most of his money on the amp and speaker.
I advise against combos, especially for bass use.
So he asked the obvious: "Don't you build amps"?
Well....yeah, but by the time I'm done it would easily cost way over $1,000 and would weigh a ton.
SS is the way to go here.
Told him something would turn up on CL and I'd keep an eye out.
Again, advising that even if a decent head came up, the cab would still be a challenge.
So about 5 minutes later I saw a CL ad for a Peavey Mark III. Good.
Then scrolled a bit and saw a Kustom 1x15.
Same phone #, and a number I recognized.
Called the guy, we laughed and talked BS and I finally said that head is in TERRIBLE shape.
I'd give him sum X.
He didn't want to budge insisting it sounded great.
So I tacked another direction and got a free gig bag and strap out of the deal for the coworker.
Here's the awful pic, lawd only know what they were thinking, or smoking...
Wife and I worked on it and I thought for sure it was going to be a strip-and recover job.
She'd taken an interest in trying a Dupli-Color Vinyl & Fabric spray.
I was doubtful, but she's the cab queen, so naturally we gave it a shot (or 12).
Man, it came out great and seems plenty tough.
After shots:
The Kustom cab was not in bad shape.
Speaker is good and does not rattle (important...LOL)
So hat's off to Mrs. Cygnus once again for a great job.
I'm sure my friend will be stunned when he sees it and plays it.
I wanted to keep it for myself, but still do my bass work direct.
