= Introduce Yourself =

[phantasmagorovich]

The guitar in my avatar is my dream guitar, a Magnatone Mark V.

I've wanted one ever since seeing James Brewer play one in the documentary And This Is Free.

It also happens to be the only image on my hard drive that meets the size limitations for avatar pics.

Hm, white whale, right? I've seen Kosta asked the exact same thing. Anyway, I googled and came across this:
not impossible. Maybe you can talk them into a payment plan? Just saying.

[Chankgeez]

Yeah, PM Blues has had that guitar for at least around ten years. He's always been asking that much for it and that's way more than it's worth. I don't think he really wants to sell it.

[phantasmagorovich]

Damn, that was some sort of fuck-up. I meant it to be a pm.


Well, he has got it for sale, and it says that he has two. Maybe after ten years you could just shoot him an offer and see if he takes it? Well, whatever, I don't mean to be a smartass.

[Chankgeez]

Yeah, he has 'em for sale, but he doesn't really want to get rid of 'em. I talked to him years ago when he only had one and that was the impression I got. I know you're not being a smartass, but I don't want one that badly. I'm pretty broke right now, but even if I weren't it's not my style to pay overly inflated prices for guitars that dealers don't want to part with. I think he enjoys the fact that he has a couple of really rare guitars in the shop and doesn't want them going anywhere. The reason no one's bought them yet is because they're priced way too high.

Out of curiosity, is it against forum rules to post prices and/or links to dealers like that?

[phantasmagorovich]

No, not at all, like I stated above there's only one rule!
Well, aggressively pushing stuff that you sell might put you in conflict with that one rule or posting shit from eBay that someone else might be wanting to buy or stuff like that - you get the picture. I actually edited it out because I wasn't sure if you would not want to get that guitar after all... Wouldn't want to rouse the hounds...

Well, if those things are so rare then it's hard to tell what's priced too high and what isn't, I'd think. But of course, the fact that he hasn't sold it for 10 years speaks volumes.

[Chankgeez]

Oh, thanks, phantasmagorovich. I'm not going after those guitars. Thanks though.

They are pretty rare. I guess it all depends on how much someone is willing to pay for something like that. For me that price is way too high, for someone with lots of money it may not be so bad. At those prices they are more for collectors than players.

[Rob Fossil]

Hey Everyone, Rob here. I am a Fuzzhugger customer and have been checking out the gear on the board here for a while now, so I thought it was time to sign up and join the fray. I am the bass player for a band called ThunderJug, we have a heavy sound and our influences are pre-punk, punk heyday (70's) with a bit of Sabbath thrown in. We are just starting up, so I will link to our stuff as we record it. I am a longtime gear head and pedal fan, I play an 82/83 Rickenbacker 4003 that I bought when it was shiny and new (yeah, I'm old) back when I was a young pup. Looking forward to mixing things up on the boards with all of you.

[Bassus Sanguinis]

Hey Everyone, Rob here. I am a Fuzzhugger customer and have been checking out the gear on the board here for a while now, so I thought it was time to sign up and join the fray. I am the bass player for a band called ThunderJug, we have a heavy sound and our influences are pre-punk, punk heyday (70's) with a bit of Sabbath thrown in. We are just starting up, so I will link to our stuff as we record it. I am a longtime gear head and pedal fan, I play an 82/83 Rickenbacker 4003 that I bought when it was shiny and new (yeah, I'm old) back when I was a young pup. Looking forward to mixing things up on the boards with all of you.

welcome to the love boat I mean FUZZ LOVE FORUM oh silly me.

It's good to have even more bass players and old/-ish geezers on board.

The famous, official rule §1/1 of ILF is simply don't be an asshole, and that's about it. Follow that and we'll have a forum with members thinking highly of each other, relatively unmoderated and freely outspoken, too, without the childish auto-cencorship castrating all the profanities and the spicy bits.

Contribute a bit, hang around, make friends. Remember the opinions are like assholes - everybody's got one (and they are often fuzzy, as Theavondon added). Report spam, there's been a lot more laterly. And please don't feed the trolls unless they can funny show numbers

[eliasklingen]

Hey guys! Elias here. A 21 year old guy from sweden, I have played the guitar for about 11 years. I play alot of blues and jazz at the moment. Of course I love fuzz, but OD's is the thing I'm relly in to! I have played in alot of bluesbands, using a Fender Hotrod deville (4x10), Fender Stratocaster and a Eastman Thinline T185mx. I'm so glad that I found this forum, seems to be the perfect place for me

/Elias

[CaptainWampum]

Welcome to the club, bub!

[serfx]

hi
i'm serfx
or Serf X
or sometimes just plain ol Jim Nowhere
i joined ilovefuzz in 2009
i read a lot but hardly post
i've been playing guitar since 1993
i own.. several of them..
i like offsets & shortscales, and moding the fuck out of things
i love fuzz
and dirt
i play rhythm guitar in a band.. you can listen to us over at zerocoolband.com
i play bass and make noize in another band.. serfx.net
i'm 31
my main guitar rigs are a Vox AC100cph that i run though a vox 4x12, and a Sovtek Midget 50H that i run thought a trainer 2x12
for bass i rock a fender bassman through a trainer 4x12, or a trainer YBA200 through a 2x10 1x15

i may not post again for another year and a half

[CounterfeitGentleman]

Hi guys, my name's Tom, live in Chicago but originally British (my American wife imported me )

I just started a thread in DIY (poor etiquette for a newb?) but figured I'd come over and say hi also.

Been modding/rewiring guitars since I was 16 or so, finally culminating in a guitar build project I completed last year. Carved/painted/finished a body, customer wiring with an active circuit, etc. Bought the neck because I didn't have the tools/patience/skills to craft one myself.

Just starting to get into pedal mods, because I'm sick of the only pedals in my price range being Boss ones, and I like tinkering with gear. When I take the back off my Zvex Mastotron (the only decent non-massively-corporate pedal I own) it's like porn... except, like, some really weird Russian porn where I don't quite understand what's happening but I'm still turned on... ANYWAY.

So yeah. Hi. I'm new, hello, what's goin' on?

[musica23]

Hi, all. My name is musica23 AKA CeeCee AKA a lotta stuff. I'm female and I love fuzz!

[Main.Ace.FX]

I've been using this forum for only a few days and already broke the rules! Don't want that to happen again so it seems that formal greetings should be in order.

I am the co-creator of MAIN.ACE.FX, and I love guitars and effects, both playing, building, experimenting and modding.

Looking forward to some good discussions.

[Mudfuzz]

Welcome and stuff fuzzy people! May the ringing in your ears oscillate in time with the dreamscape in your subconscious mind's eye.