What was the last thing you bought and wished you hadnt?
Mine was actually a couple of years ago now. I bought a double neck guitar that was pretty banged up, theyd done a terrible spray paint job on it and all the guts were ruined, and ad to that someone had gloss painted the fretboard...
It cost me about £120, and it doesnt require that much work. The gloss paint came off without damage to the fretboard besides what it had done, the frets were easy to clean, replacing a couple of them though, and there arent many ajustments needing done. But I have no idea how to clean this horrible paint job and im useless at electronics, so its gathering dust in a corner until I finish education and have lots of free time, because I know exactly what I want to do with it and it'll look ace when its done, its just... doing it.
Oh yeah, it has coupled humbuckers and Ibanez supers pickups, and they are extremely warm sounding, I think the cost of the guitar was worth the pickups themselves, but.. yknow...
Your turn.
Quote from: "SerFox"What was the last thing you bought and wished you hadnt?
Mine was actually a couple of years ago now. I bought a double neck guitar that was pretty banged up, theyd done a terrible spray paint job on it and all the guts were ruined, and ad to that someone had gloss painted the fretboard...
It cost me about £120, and it doesnt require that much work. The gloss paint came off without damage to the fretboard besides what it had done, the frets were easy to clean, replacing a couple of them though, and there arent many ajustments needing done. But I have no idea how to clean this horrible paint job and im useless at electronics, so its gathering dust in a corner until I finish education and have lots of free time, because I know exactly what I want to do with it and it'll look ace when its done, its just... doing it.
Oh yeah, it has coupled humbuckers and Ibanez supers pickups, and they are extremely warm sounding, I think the cost of the guitar was worth the pickups themselves, but.. yknow...
Your turn.
Mate, I've mentioned this before on the old forum, if you ever need any help with electronics or wiring etc, advice, or even maybe some work done, I will probably be able to help. Especially considering your present location.
Project wise....I've got a valve amp sketched out, but finding the time, now that's the difficult bit!
Quote from: "Brom"Quote from: "SerFox"What was the last thing you bought and wished you hadnt?
Mine was actually a couple of years ago now. I bought a double neck guitar that was pretty banged up, theyd done a terrible spray paint job on it and all the guts were ruined, and ad to that someone had gloss painted the fretboard...
It cost me about £120, and it doesnt require that much work. The gloss paint came off without damage to the fretboard besides what it had done, the frets were easy to clean, replacing a couple of them though, and there arent many ajustments needing done. But I have no idea how to clean this horrible paint job and im useless at electronics, so its gathering dust in a corner until I finish education and have lots of free time, because I know exactly what I want to do with it and it'll look ace when its done, its just... doing it.
Oh yeah, it has coupled humbuckers and Ibanez supers pickups, and they are extremely warm sounding, I think the cost of the guitar was worth the pickups themselves, but.. yknow...
Your turn.
Mate, I've mentioned this before on the old forum, if you ever need any help with electronics or wiring etc, advice, or even maybe some work done, I will probably be able to help. Especially considering your present location.
Project wise....I've got a valve amp sketched out, but finding the time, now that's the difficult bit!
Im still quite a new frost*ie, dont hate me :(
I dont actually have it down here in hatfield. I might get it sent down at some point though.
A BMW 5 series touring.
Bloody thing keeps having an electronics paddy. The electrics are shite. The voice recognition thing has converted to Martian and it had a total electrics failure on Wife as she was doing 60 down the A267 last week. The speedo went, the power steering, the airbags...everything.
And on the iDrive display came the message "Drive Carefully".
Yeah right. Right to the bloody garage in exchange for a car that actually bloody works.
More on the blog later.... :evil:
Quote from: "Jem"A BMW 5 series touring.
Bloody thing keeps having an electronics paddy. The electrics are shite. The voice recognition thing has converted to Martian and it had a total electrics failure on Wife as she was doing 60 down the A267 last week. The speedo went, the power steering, the airbags...everything.
And on the iDrive display came the message "Drive Carefully".
Yeah right. Right to the bloody garage in exchange for a car that actually bloody works.
More on the blog later.... :evil:
Jem, I thought your worst ever was the smart car?
No no, I LOVED the Smart Car. I had to ditch is coz Wife was making more babies and our drive's not big enough for 3 cars.
I still go all window licker whenever I see one. SUCH fun to lamp about, I had paddle gear shifts on my one and big fat sports tyres, I miss it to this day. :(
A Peugeot 307. Grrr.
And Wagner's Ring Cycle.
Quote from: "SerFox"Quote from: "Brom"Quote from: "SerFox"What was the last thing you bought and wished you hadnt?
Mine was actually a couple of years ago now. I bought a double neck guitar that was pretty banged up, theyd done a terrible spray paint job on it and all the guts were ruined, and ad to that someone had gloss painted the fretboard...
It cost me about £120, and it doesnt require that much work. The gloss paint came off without damage to the fretboard besides what it had done, the frets were easy to clean, replacing a couple of them though, and there arent many ajustments needing done. But I have no idea how to clean this horrible paint job and im useless at electronics, so its gathering dust in a corner until I finish education and have lots of free time, because I know exactly what I want to do with it and it'll look ace when its done, its just... doing it.
Oh yeah, it has coupled humbuckers and Ibanez supers pickups, and they are extremely warm sounding, I think the cost of the guitar was worth the pickups themselves, but.. yknow...
Your turn.
Mate, I've mentioned this before on the old forum, if you ever need any help with electronics or wiring etc, advice, or even maybe some work done, I will probably be able to help. Especially considering your present location.
Project wise....I've got a valve amp sketched out, but finding the time, now that's the difficult bit!
Im still quite a new frost*ie, dont hate me :(
I dont actually have it down here in hatfield. I might get it sent down at some point though.
I don't hate you!!! I'ts a habit of mine to mention that I've mentioned things before. It's not wanting people to think that I'm a rambling old git, a la... When I was in the war, Uncle Albert sort of thing...I thought I'd just mention that.
:)
Sorry to make this all about (bloody) cars.... but: A Chrysler Stratus on lpg.
My first and last American car. Refuses to run on lpg properly even after 2000 euro on repairs. The damn thing has more problems (requires another 1500 euro or so on repairs/replacements) so I'm going back to a Ford Mondeo Tdi next week. Those actually work and go vraooomvrooamm. :|
Quote from: "tomskerous"And Wagner's Ring Cycle.
....which washing machine did that come with?
Bloody Renault Bloody Five. :oops:
Our house here in Florida.
Quote from: "Jem"No no, I LOVED the Smart Car. I had to ditch is coz Wife was making more babies and our drive's not big enough for 3 cars.
I still go all window licker whenever I see one. SUCH fun to lamp about, I had paddle gear shifts on my one and big fat sports tyres, I miss it to this day. :(
I thought you could park the Smarts pretty much anywhere -use your new phonebox as a garage :D
Pioneer Laserdisc, bought in 1988 - The future of digital A/V.
Not only that, but a few months after I replied to an ad where a bloke was selling a dozen 'laser discs' for £30. He offered to meet me locally as he would be passing the area.
I looked in the bag he had and there seemed to be around a dozen sleeves for movies and some music. He got one out and showed me a silver coloured disc, so I thought I'd give it a shot and paid him the £30.
(by this time - you're starting to tut and feel like you know what's coming... aren't you?)
Got them home and took them all out of their sleeves. Funny... the rest of these aren't silver coloured...
Turned out to be some old Philips analogue format, audio only I believe. Didn't have the player for them, total waste of money.
The silver disc was a Japanese language promo thing that had people on it doing some kind of extreme sports. At least it actually played.
Of the grand total of 7 proper laserdisc discs I ever had - I sold four on ebay for £3-4 each, two wouldn't play anymore and I kept one, my favourite - Def Leppard In The Round, Live Concert. I loved that one.
Got the player and the Leps out a few years ago having moved house and it being in mothballs for yonks. Plugged in, loaded up, got the full-on servo whoosh as it tried to spin 2KG of disc up to speed. On came the Leps - doin' their thang, in mega-techno glory.
Then GRINDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!! Phiz, Pop, Gurgle.
No disc, no player. :-( Bastard.
EIMA.
Got you. :D :D :D :D
My last silly purchase was damn Gateway E 155C Tablet PC. The thing was about 700 bucks, and 2 weeks in the touchscreen went, and then the screen its self. So i got the bloody thing repaired, and a week later the touchscreen wen on it AGAIN. SO ....... Don't buy Gateway. Oh well, my next purchase will be a Dell Latitude XT.
Quote from: "tomskerous"A Peugeot 307. Grrr.
I am SO fed up with my 307.
Everything keeps on failing on it.
I've had awful problems with the brakes this year and last year - a recurring fault with the ABS which ended up costing stupid amounts of money to fix and scaring me silly into the bargain. And the indicator stalk isn't so much self-cancelling as self-deciding-to-indicate-in-the-opposite-direction-when-I-come-out-of-a-corner. The 5-cd changer is dead, the power steering has an untraceable leak (but the fluid slowly ebbs away over the course of about 9 months) and the fuel economy's pretty rubbish. Also the computer is wildly overoptimistic about everything and told me that I had enough petrol to go 30 miles left in the tank... just as I ran out of fuel after midnight one night coming back home from a gig. I will NEVER buy a Peugeot again.
They should never have discontinued the 306, it's a great car and mine (touch wood) is still going strong!
I really shouldn't post this should I?
Quote from: "catherine"And the indicator stalk isn't so much self-cancelling as self-deciding-to-indicate-in-the-opposite-direction-when-I-come-out-of-a-corner.
At the last MOT I was failed for that as 'a control issue'. Despite it having got through three times before. A totally crappy design flaw that cost nearly 300 quid to have fixed.
Cant we have some more amusing silly purchases?
What is it with you and cars, I mean fuck, I have to walk, I'll never be able to drive... :(
Well those Manolos will never last then will they?
One of these!
Having just checked what they're going for on ebay, maybe not so silly...hmmmm, I can feel a new listing coming on ;)
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How much, Beano?
Quote from: "SerFox"How much, Beano?
One can never have enough Beano....
BTW my lad started playing a demo of the most recent Banjo & Kazooie game the other day....it is now on his Xmas list. Those tunes and cheery colours make a pleasant change from the constant drab aural barrage of "Resident BioGears of Far Fallout Duty War Carnage 2"!
Quote from: "Pedro"BTW my lad started playing a demo of the most recent Banjo & Kazooie game the other day....it is now on his Xmas list. Those tunes and cheery colours make a pleasant change from the constant drab aural barrage of "Resident BioGears of Far Fallout Duty War Carnage 2"!
lovely stuff, hope he enjoys it :D
Quote from: "SerFox"How much, Beano?
I'll post the link when I eventually get round to listing it
cheers mi dears
My last silly purchase ....
My son loves it ! :D ... the wife is not amused though :roll:
Cor! I used to have it when I was a little kid! :lol:
i bought a wig!
Quote from: "wickedwitch"i bought a wig!
and the fancy dress begins... :P
absobloominlootly!