Thanks..I've had it since I was 18, traded my friend my EKO 12 string. It's been a great trade as the years pass on. The speaker is not original since the original blew 15 years ago.
I have to find a correct replacement as well as it would not hurt to have the amp's electronics looked into and cleaned up or parts replaced that are gone.
However it works completely so I;m not sure if it really needs anything.

Funny thing about vintage amps is that some days it sounds 100% others it's more like 95%.
My guess is that most of the vintage components are affected by atmospheric pressures.
In other words it's temperamental.
I never take it anywhere, but I did offer Mark Cutler to use it for future recordings, which I'm kind of dying to hear it in a studio recording situation..

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"C'est parti mon Kiki "

I have very little gear that is really beat up, but the worst would have to be this mid 90s Duo-Sonic reissue after I got it back from my grandsons...







I asked them what happened to it, but they said they couldn't remember...

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Dennis in CR
Rockin' since 1963

I got nothing beat up.

Looks like it was a pillow fight, only they used a guitar instead of a pillow.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

my most beat up guitar is just worn to hell..... no real dings in it just wear and tear......but it feels sooooo good to play.

I actually abuse the car far more tha my guitars...... here's my recent handy work after some speed bumps.....

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speak slowly I'm a drummer too!!

And I proudly lack a stick or a kazoo up my arse...........

re-built gibson explorer. i'm too stupid to post pics. it stays covered in dust because i play it every day.
whats the story on the on the LTD Mr. Nik? i'm in the market for a trade up. i'm leaning toward charvel.

Not much to report. Even my 25+ year-old Strat, the "Venerable Black No. 1", is nearly flawless except for fret wear. For the longest time it was my only guitar.

My most abused gear would be strings and picks.I bash the strings in the style of Pete Townshend and Chris Britton.I really am fastidious about the care of my other gear,especially guitars.There was a time when amps and speakers took the brunt of my fury,back when I was heavy into high volume Hendrix,Who,Troggs etc.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

i have a custom tele from the 90's that seems to smash into everything it could possibly smash into. it takes a crazy beating. i could probably throw it from my roof and i would still be in tune. best guitar i've ever played. theres a pretty gnarly gash in the back from a thrown ride cymbal.

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jarvis probes/octafish
http://www.octafish.bandcamp.com

Jeebus the LTD was the Hanneman model. Not worth the cupboard space in my opinion. A horrible guitar. The best thing about it was the Kahler trem. It's long gone and suffered a fate worse than the Les Paul copy I burned then chainsawed, I gave it to my nephew!

Based on my experience of that guitar, I wouldn't recommend em to anyone. The Jacksons though, they are a different story. I've never played one I didn't like.

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lol. I had the ESP/LTD JH-600. The neck-thru with alder wings, black, ebony fret board, X-jumbo frets, EMG's, beautiful cross and dagger inlays. The guitar was utterly impeccable but for the hybrid Kahler trem they put on it, that trem sucked, bad -- no sustain, and it just lost it on pushes and pulls -- it would not stay in tune and notes would fade way too fast. Nobody could get that trem working well enough to keep it. My HWY 1 vintage trem holds on better than that hybrid Khaler. I thought about upgrading that trem but since it was a signature guitar I said feck it, and traded it for an Ibanez, which sucked too...major fret sprout and the wood around the locking nut was too weak and the parts stripped out quickly, the electronics were defective out of the box, blah blah blah.

I wish I had a photo of a Steinberger Spirit I beat a carpeted concrete floor with, went right through the carpet, chipped the concrete...didn't even phase the steiny, and I beat it real good. The latch on the trem wore out quickly so I didn't want it anymore and I was curious to see if it was able to "take a tumble down the stairs and stay in tune"...no stairs. ...it stayed in tune though. And those were over the head, way pissed off hatchet whacks, HARD. I put some Bill Lawrence XL 500's in it, didn't like the result (the guitar was eh, the pickups excellent), sold it off. I would not want to be on the receiving end of a hit from that guitar, for sure.

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"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a Conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst." J. Edgar Hoover

Who's your grandson, Pete Townsend?

I have a BC Rich Mockingbird that's had a hard life. It's fallen many times, been dropped because of bad straps, selector switch knob and stem broke off, tunner broke on another fall, dents, dings, etc... Still one hell of a metal shredder and although it's not much to look at, it's a keeper. On the other hand, all of my other guitars look almost new. I've got to get another switch someday for it though, hard to throw that little stub in a hurry!
The other gear that I have that's showing signs of wear is my amp and cab. Peavey XXL with a 412 slant cab. Tolex looks like crap, road wear is a $@!&* sometimes! I've also got to replace the master volume pot as the stem got bent somewhere along the way. It still works and I have a new one now but I haven't done it yet. Also thinking about redoing the Tolex in a different color someday just to be different.