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Post by spellcaster on Mar 2, 2022 4:23:42 GMT
I just found a guy advertising on Facebook Marketplace who's got a new Ampeg Portaflex 15" cabinet that he wants to trade for a 2 x 10". Sent him a message and told him we should talk.
(Edited to add:) Sounds like we have a deal. He's driving down to Duncan on Thursday and bringing his cabinet. I've always thought the 10"'s sounded wimpy, so I'm pleased as punch with this deal. I even have a backup plan to try to trade the Gibson box for something else I want.....But I'll tell you about that after this deal is finalized.
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 2, 2022 12:41:50 GMT
I just found a guy advertising on Facebook Marketplace who's got a new Ampeg Portaflex 15" cabinet that he wants to trade for a 2 x 10". Sent him a message and told him we should talk.
(Edited to add:) Sounds like we have a deal. He's driving down to Duncan on Thursday and bringing his cabinet. I've always thought the 10"'s sounded wimpy, so I'm pleased as punch with this deal. I even have a backup plan to try to trade the Gibson box for something else I want.....But I'll tell you about that after this deal is finalized.
Boy, you are really on the prowl for gear...
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Post by Sinster on Mar 2, 2022 20:50:53 GMT
Nice!
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Post by spellcaster on Mar 2, 2022 21:00:44 GMT
I just found a guy advertising on Facebook Marketplace who's got a new Ampeg Portaflex 15" cabinet that he wants to trade for a 2 x 10". Sent him a message and told him we should talk.
(Edited to add:) Sounds like we have a deal. He's driving down to Duncan on Thursday and bringing his cabinet. I've always thought the 10"'s sounded wimpy, so I'm pleased as punch with this deal. I even have a backup plan to try to trade the Gibson box for something else I want.....But I'll tell you about that after this deal is finalized.
Boy, you are really on the prowl for gear... I guess it probably looks like I'm doing more equipment transactions than usual, but it's just the way things happened. I'm fairly pleased with this deal....The PortaFlex 15" cabinet is exactly the same size as the 2 x 10" box, which works out well - When I acquired the 2 x 10" cabinet last year, the original owner had purchased an expensive CoverAmp naugahyde custom cover for it which he gave me. Since the 2 x 10" and 15" cabinets are identical dimensions, that CoverAmp cover will fit the new cabinet perfectly. I also did a brief specs comparison, and two things were noteworthy.....The 15" version is marginally lighter, so there's a weigh savings, and the 15" has more extended low end response, so a little better gut-punch. The timing for this couldn't have been better....I saw the guy's ad as soon as it went up, so I was able to be first in line to deal with him, and he mentioned in the ad that he was planning a trip to Vancouver this weekend, so if I'd responded just a couple of days later, I might have missed this chance. He's going to call me tomorrow morning to tell me what time he's coming by.
The only irony is that if this had happened a couple of weeks ago, I'd have probably passed on the Gibson cabinet if I knew I was getting the PortaFlex 15". I'll try to sell the Gibson cabinet now because I really don't want two 15" cabinets. I found something I've got the hots for that's advertised on Facebook Marketplace, so I've sent a trade offer to a guy in Victoria. He's trying to sell a Ric 4001 copy - What's commonly called a "Fakenbacker", a Chinese copy of a Ricky. He's asking 350.00, and since that's what I've got invested in the Gibson box, I'm prepared to trade straight across if he's interested. I haven't heard back yet, so I don't know if its going to fly. Fingers crossed.....
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 2, 2022 21:24:48 GMT
Boy, you are really on the prowl for gear... I guess it probably looks like I'm doing more equipment transactions than usual, but it's just the way things happened. I'm fairly pleased with this deal....The PortaFlex 15" cabinet is exactly the same size as the 2 x 10" box, which works out well - When I acquired the 2 x 10" cabinet last year, the original owner had purchased an expensive CoverAmp naugahyde custom cover for it which he gave me. Since the 2 x 10" and 15" cabinets are identical dimensions, that CoverAmp cover will fit the new cabinet perfectly. I also did a brief specs comparison, and two things were noteworthy.....The 15" version is marginally lighter, so there's a weigh savings, and the 15" has more extended low end response, so a little better gut-punch. The timing for this couldn't have been better....I saw the guy's ad as soon as it went up, so I was able to be first in line to deal with him, and he mentioned in the ad that he was planning a trip to Vancouver this weekend, so if I'd responded just a couple of days later, I might have missed this chance. He's going to call me tomorrow morning to tell me what time he's coming by.
The only irony is that if this had happened a couple of weeks ago, I'd have probably passed on the Gibson cabinet if I knew I was getting the PortaFlex 15". I'll try to sell the Gibson cabinet now because I really don't want two 15" cabinets. I found something I've got the hots for that's advertised on Facebook Marketplace, so I've sent a trade offer to a guy in Victoria. He's trying to sell a Ric 4001 copy - What's commonly called a "Fakenbacker", a Chinese copy of a Ricky. He's asking 350.00, and since that's what I've got invested in the Gibson box, I'm prepared to trade straight across if he's interested. I haven't heard back yet, so I don't know if its going to fly. Fingers crossed.....
Good luck, that would be a nice trade for the "FRick"
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Post by infant on Mar 2, 2022 21:58:34 GMT
Good luck with all the “flipping”! You are lucky that you aren’t married. Although she’s never really said anything in the past, I’m sure my wife would wonder what I was doing if I started flipping equipment this quickly!
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Post by spellcaster on Mar 2, 2022 23:18:24 GMT
I feel slightly uncomfortable with the word flipping. When I think of flippers, it brings to mind the people who have habit to buying cheap and selling high, with the aim of leveraging themselves into something at someone else's expense. I'm not trying to take advantage of anyone....just looking for opportunities to do straight across trades of stuff at equal value to acquire the gear I think is best-suited to my needs. This isn't something that's a habit with me....I sometimes go months or years without any gear changes, but it just happens that circumstances are making these possibilities available unexpectedly at once. And, it doesn't always work....Over the last year, I tried to trade my way into that Hofner 459, that Vox VR30R amp, that Altec Lansing 2 x 15" bass cabinet, and that JBL D140 speaker, but didn't succeed. I just know that nothing good happens unless I make the attempt, and once in a while, I luck out, such as this PortaFlex cabinet trade. If the other stuff happens, great, but if not, I won't mope and drip endlessly about it - I'll just look ahead for something else to come along.
I do understand what you're saying though, Rob. When I first got back into bands in the early 2000's, I had to really sell my wife on my buying the SuperTwin Reverb, my red Fat Tele, and my violin bass. A couple of years later, I was unexpectedly single, so didn't have anybody to keep me from buying that 8 foot stack of Peavey bass gear, or the Ampeg SVT 6PRO....But I'd have traded the trouble that stuff might have caused for the chance to have my wife back. Life's always got pros and cons, and unfortunately, I didn't get to choose what kind of trouble I'd rather have had. I'm trying hard to be positive and count my blessings....Whatever that means, lol.
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Post by markr on Mar 2, 2022 23:49:13 GMT
When I first read that I thought you had to sell your wife to buy a Super Twin Reverb, turns out maybe you should have! Lol
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Post by spellcaster on Mar 3, 2022 0:13:14 GMT
When I first read that I thought you had to sell your wife to buy a Super Twin Reverb, turns out maybe you should have! Lol Lol, you'd have laughed to hear me pitching the idea of the SuperTwin Reverb to her. She was dubious about me purchasing a high-powered tube amp that needed six output tubes. I showed her a pin-adaptor online that allowed a person to do tube substitutions that meant I could use less popular, cheaper tubes if I had to replace the six 6L6's - not that I'd ever have done that, lol. The easiest idea to sell was the violin bass....She liked it enough that she agreed to loan me the money and then turned it into a gift. Actually, I found buying band gear was less of an uphill battle than using household money for other toys would have been.....At least she could see playing in a band was giving me a lot of pleasure, and gigging meant that there was money coming in over time. I suspect that finding money for parts to build guitars would have been a tougher thing if she saw a couple of dozen partscasters piling up and rarely getting played. But then, if she'd still been alive, I probably would never have inherited the computer I'd bought her and discovered I could buy guitar parts on eBay, and I never would have started building guitars. It's funny how stuff happens.
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 3, 2022 1:50:57 GMT
I feel slightly uncomfortable with the word flipping. Let's just call it trading up
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Post by infant on Mar 3, 2022 5:32:38 GMT
When I first read that I thought you had to sell your wife to buy a Super Twin Reverb, turns out maybe you should have! Lol Lol, you'd have laughed to hear me pitching the idea of the SuperTwin Reverb to her. She was dubious about me purchasing a high-powered tube amp that needed six output tubes. I showed her a pin-adaptor online that allowed a person to do tube substitutions that meant I could use less popular, cheaper tubes if I had to replace the six 6L6's - not that I'd ever have done that, lol. The easiest idea to sell was the violin bass....She liked it enough that she agreed to loan me the money and then turned it into a gift. Actually, I found buying band gear was less of an uphill battle than using household money for other toys would have been.....At least she could see playing in a band was giving me a lot of pleasure, and gigging meant that there was money coming in over time. I suspect that finding money for parts to build guitars would have been a tougher thing if she saw a couple of dozen partscasters piling up and rarely getting played. But then, if she'd still been alive, I probably would never have inherited the computer I'd bought her and discovered I could buy guitar parts on eBay, and I never would have started building guitars. It's funny how stuff happens. Sorry, maybe flipping was the wrong word. I use it to describe selling something to buy something else. When I was playing in a wedding band in the 80s and 90s, I was making over $6000 a year some of those years and hardly ever upgraded my equipment. I used that money to take vacations with my wife and family. So after paying off the house and cars, I had some cash to spend on equipment and my wife never questioned it. However, I never could bring myself to spend the money on a high end guitar or amp.
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Post by johnreardon on Mar 3, 2022 9:29:53 GMT
I feel slightly uncomfortable with the word flipping. Let's just call it trading upI'm not even sure 'up' is the right word.
People often talk about 'upgrading' when they really mean 'changing'. Changes are not necessarily 'improvements'. They are just changes.
If the changes make the person happy, then great but I often see changes that, for me, made the guitar or amp sound worse
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Post by highdeaf on Mar 3, 2022 18:23:26 GMT
Let's just call it trading upI'm not even sure 'up' is the right word.
People often talk about 'upgrading' when they really mean 'changing'. Changes are not necessarily 'improvements'. They are just changes.
If the changes make the person happy, then great but I often see changes that, for me, made the guitar or amp sound worse
Exactly right. In the MI world, there is seldom 'better/worse' and most often it's all about what you like. Two guys could swap a Strat and a Les Paul and both feel like they got 'the better deal'.
On SNL last weekend, the band's (LCD Soundsystem) guitar player used a cheap $200 guitar that he obviously really liked. I suspect they could afford better, since the backline showcased a couple of McIntosh tube monoblocks (about $8k each) for a bass amp, something easily accomplished with a $200 SS stereo power amp. To each his own.
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 3, 2022 21:21:28 GMT
I'm not even sure 'up' is the right word.
People often talk about 'upgrading' when they really mean 'changing'. Changes are not necessarily 'improvements'. They are just changes.
If the changes make the person happy, then great but I often see changes that, for me, made the guitar or amp sound worse
Exactly right. In the MI world, there is seldom 'better/worse' and most often it's all about what you like. Two guys could swap a Strat and a Les Paul and both feel like they got 'the better deal'.
Hey that's really a win/ win outcome!
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Post by spellcaster on Mar 3, 2022 21:22:27 GMT
Well, made my deal and we both walked away happy....Him with the 2 x 10", and me with the 1x15. I'd like to get out somewhere and play where I could hear it. Right now, these equipment trades feel a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Haven't heard back from the guy I pitched on trading my Gibson/Eminence cabinet for his Fakenbacker. I guess I'll put the Gibson cabinet up for sale on Facebook Marketplace this afternoon. I'd still be interested in buying the bass if I get the cash from the cabinet sale.
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Post by markr on Mar 4, 2022 3:16:27 GMT
When I first read that I thought you had to sell your wife to buy a Super Twin Reverb, turns out maybe you should have! Lol Lol, you'd have laughed to hear me pitching the idea of the SuperTwin Reverb to her. She was dubious about me purchasing a high-powered tube amp that needed six output tubes. I showed her a pin-adaptor online that allowed a person to do tube substitutions that meant I could use less popular, cheaper tubes if I had to replace the six 6L6's - not that I'd ever have done that, lol. The easiest idea to sell was the violin bass....She liked it enough that she agreed to loan me the money and then turned it into a gift. Actually, I found buying band gear was less of an uphill battle than using household money for other toys would have been.....At least she could see playing in a band was giving me a lot of pleasure, and gigging meant that there was money coming in over time. I suspect that finding money for parts to build guitars would have been a tougher thing if she saw a couple of dozen partscasters piling up and rarely getting played. But then, if she'd still been alive, I probably would never have inherited the computer I'd bought her and discovered I could buy guitar parts on eBay, and I never would have started building guitars. It's funny how stuff happens. I apologize, it appears I may have ben insensitive, I assumed that she was still with us.
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Post by spellcaster on Mar 4, 2022 3:31:09 GMT
Lol, you'd have laughed to hear me pitching the idea of the SuperTwin Reverb to her. She was dubious about me purchasing a high-powered tube amp that needed six output tubes. I showed her a pin-adaptor online that allowed a person to do tube substitutions that meant I could use less popular, cheaper tubes if I had to replace the six 6L6's - not that I'd ever have done that, lol. The easiest idea to sell was the violin bass....She liked it enough that she agreed to loan me the money and then turned it into a gift. Actually, I found buying band gear was less of an uphill battle than using household money for other toys would have been.....At least she could see playing in a band was giving me a lot of pleasure, and gigging meant that there was money coming in over time. I suspect that finding money for parts to build guitars would have been a tougher thing if she saw a couple of dozen partscasters piling up and rarely getting played. But then, if she'd still been alive, I probably would never have inherited the computer I'd bought her and discovered I could buy guitar parts on eBay, and I never would have started building guitars. It's funny how stuff happens. I apologize, it appears I may have ben insensitive, I assumed that she was still with us. No problem, No way you'd have known unless you were one of my forum friends from back in the AxeTalk/Gibson Talk days.
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Post by Sgt Rock on Mar 4, 2022 3:47:13 GMT
Well, made my deal and we both walked away happy....Him with the 2 x 10", and me with the 1x15. I'd like to get out somewhere and play where I could hear it. Right now, these equipment trades feel a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Haven't heard back from the guy I pitched on trading my Gibson/Eminence cabinet for his Fakenbacker. I guess I'll put the Gibson cabinet up for sale on Facebook Marketplace this afternoon. I'd still be interested in buying the bass if I get the cash from the cabinet sale. just curious, Ken. which Gibson amp is/was in the Gibson cabinet ? I have two old Gibson amps from the 1966 era. I have my original GA-15RVT from when I got my first guitar. and some years back I bought a GA-45RVT. so, old Gibson amps are near and dear to me.
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Post by spellcaster on Mar 4, 2022 4:33:01 GMT
Well, made my deal and we both walked away happy....Him with the 2 x 10", and me with the 1x15. I'd like to get out somewhere and play where I could hear it. Right now, these equipment trades feel a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Haven't heard back from the guy I pitched on trading my Gibson/Eminence cabinet for his Fakenbacker. I guess I'll put the Gibson cabinet up for sale on Facebook Marketplace this afternoon. I'd still be interested in buying the bass if I get the cash from the cabinet sale. just curious, Ken. which Gibson amp is/was in the Gibson cabinet ? I have two old Gibson amps from the 1966 era. I have my original GA-15RVT from when I got my first guitar. and some years back I bought a GA-45RVT. so, old Gibson amps are near and dear to me. I don't think this was ever a Gibson combo amp. The speaker is definitely an Eminence 15" that has a Gibson-sticker on the magnet. I'm not positive, but have a very strong suspicion that the cabinet is a Lab Series that originally came with a JBL, which has been replaced with the Eminence. I tried to do some research on which older Gibson amp would have come with a 15" Eminence, but didn't have much luck tracking it down. My best guess is that it might be one of the drivers from a Gibson SuperThor, which was a 100 watt 1972 vintage bass amp. The number code on the speaker in my cabinet places it at production 41st week of 1972.
.. Initially manufactured by Eminence in the mid 70's, these are the heaviest AlNiCo magnet units I have seen like this from Eminence. They have the large 2 1/2" diameter voice coils,and were used in all sorts of high bass output applications from monitor use, and bass rigs such as Ampeg, Traynor, Fender, Kustom, and various PA systems as well.....
*Frame- Heavy stamped steel
*Magnet- AlNiCo
*Litz wires- .055" diameter woven cotton conductors
*Spider- Treated textile/cupped profile
*Gaskets- 4/8 hole pressed chip
*Surround- textile/accordion profile
*Dust caps- OEM/ REAL aluminum!
*Voice Coil- Copper windings on polyamide formers
*Coil Diameter- 2 1/2"
*Cone- re-pressed pulp
*Cone profile- semi curve-linear/smooth ribless
*Hook up- standard sad terminals
*Depth- 7"
*Impedance- 8 ohms
*Power- 100 watts RMS
*SPL- high efficiency - 98dB
*Response- 30-3.5KHz
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Post by spellcaster on Mar 12, 2022 0:29:17 GMT
I still haven't had any bites on my Gibson speaker-box although my ad's getting lots of views. I reduced the price down to 300.00, which represents a 50.00 loss, but who knowsm - Maybe that'll be what it takes to sell it. I've also been mulling over the possibility of using it as a way to upgrade the sale of my PA system.....The Fender Passport system has a sub output, and I've debated offering my Fender Rumble 150 head and Gibson speaker-box as a sub upgrade for the PA. I'm sure it would sound great.
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Post by infant on Mar 12, 2022 0:35:58 GMT
Why not just sell the fender Rumble and the Gibson speaker as a bass amp unit?
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Post by spellcaster on Mar 12, 2022 0:41:14 GMT
Why not just sell the fender Rumble and the Gibson speaker as a bass amp unit? Yeah, I guess that's another possibility. I've found quite often that when I've advertised a head and cabinet, people inevitably want me to split them up. I can't see there being a big enough return in just selling the Rumble 150 for it to be worthwhile, but maybe it would be a way to market the Gibson cabinet. I'll think on that, and maybe create a head and cabinet package listing to put on Facebook Marketplace.
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 12, 2022 1:41:49 GMT
And don't lower that price too quickly either!
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Post by infant on Mar 12, 2022 4:53:16 GMT
Why not just sell the fender Rumble and the Gibson speaker as a bass amp unit? Yeah, I guess that's another possibility. I've found quite often that when I've advertised a head and cabinet, people inevitably want me to split them up. I can't see there being a big enough return in just selling the Rumble 150 for it to be worthwhile, but maybe it would be a way to market the Gibson cabinet. I'll think on that, and maybe create a head and cabinet package listing to put on Facebook Marketplace. Yeah, I don’t think people would consider those as a proper “subwoofer”. I think they really need to be sold separately from the PA
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Post by spellcaster on Mar 12, 2022 5:21:23 GMT
I just created a Facebook Marketplace listing for the Fender Rumble 150 and Gibson Eminence cabinet.
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Post by spellcaster on Mar 12, 2022 20:34:25 GMT
Ironically, when I advertised the amp and speaker last night, I had an inquiry asking if I'd sell the speaker separately. The fellow said he'd buy it, so I've left him my phone number and I'm waiting for a call.
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Post by spellcaster on Mar 13, 2022 17:36:29 GMT
Sounds now like the buyer will buy the amp and the cabinet. I'll need to do some time studying my bankbook, but this might be enough to let me order the Hofner now.
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Post by infant on Mar 13, 2022 18:08:32 GMT
That sounds good Ken! Just remember, it’s not sold until he picks it up and gives you the cash. I’ve had too many people lead me on that I now tell them that the first one with the cash gets the item.
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 13, 2022 22:11:54 GMT
Sounds now like the buyer will buy the amp and the cabinet. I'll need to do some time studying my bankbook, but this might be enough to let me order the Hofner now. You've Been talking about the hofner for some time now- would be great if that works out!
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Post by spellcaster on Mar 13, 2022 23:24:14 GMT
It's a done deal! The buyer just left here with the Fender Rumble 150 and the Gibson/Eminence cabinet and I've got 400.00 that I'm about to deposit in the bank. I just ordered the Hofner 459 and it'll be here Saturday, April 9th. The only glitch is that it doesn't come with a case...Maybe a gig bag, but not sure, and I wouldn't trust a set neck guitar with a tipped-back headstock to a gigbag....That's just asking for a Gibson-style tragedy. What I've discovered is that Hofner doesn't offer a case for the 459 (and the violin bass case doesn't fit the shorter neck of the six string guitar, and it appears to be an elusive item. When I bought my violin bass (from a dealer in London Ontario), they were able to get a rectangular Yorkville hardshell case to fit it. I ended up buying a shaped violin bass case on eBay (from the same dealer I just ordered the guitar from) and when it arrived, I used the shaped case for the bass, and used the rectangular hardshell case for my Jay Turser JT-G2 violin guitar. Unfortunately, I had to sell the Turser with that case because I was shipping it to Florida, so all I have now is the shaped case which won't fit the guitar. I'll have to try Long and McQuade, which is the Yorkville dealer now, and see if they have something that'll fit the new guitar. Can't seem to find any good full-size pictures online, but here's a teaser I snapped from the eBay ad....
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