don't lend important gear away
 

My dad and brothers came up to visit me and stayed at my apartment for a few days. while we were out and i was showing them the city, the car broke down and we were able to barely get to a gas station.

luckily, a friend i hadn't seen in a year was getting gas and he gave us a ride home. he's a hip hop producer, and really good at it, and we agreed to keep in touch. about a week later he asked if he could borrow my mxl 990 condenser. now, this is my only condenser at the moment so it was my best quality, but being grateful for earlier, i agreed.

he brought it back the following week with many apologies because some of his guests were very rough with it during recording. it was all banged up, with at least 2 significant dents in it. the stand height adjuster is rusted. and he forgot to bring my pop filter.

fortunately it still works fine (which i find remarkable) but since it looks ugly i feel a greater urge to replace it. too bad i won't get funds like that until this coming fall. :(

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wow man that sucks...i mean i feel ya for lending it to him becuz he helped you guys but he probably could have taken better care of it i would be bummed to

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yeah, and one of my friends kept saying "you shouldn't have lent it to him " and i kept saying "nah, i trust him" etc, and he was there when the guy brought it back and had that I Told You So look on his face


made it worse lol

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yeah that is never a good saying "i told you so" haha my gf gives me that one a lot

on a second note i forgot to mention i lent my squier 51 to a friend before and i modded it to have a bridge with a tremolo and when i got it back the tremolo was broken out and couldn't get it back in i was alittle disappointed but the guitar worked fine still and just figured i would fix it someday...well that day has not come yet :frownz:

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that sucks...


well i can't say i never messed up someone elses stuff... my cat knocked over my friend's bong in the middle of the night... i woke up and found it smashed in my living room... still in the box - it provided no protection and it was just tipped over, not knocked off of something

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aww man yeah that sucks too haha just remember though if you still have one don't let anyone take your pic with it haha :biggrin:

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lmao i might lose my cereal deal oh nos

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haha yeah we wouldn't want that now would we :no: haha

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Sorry to hear your mic got banged up. I've been lucky, I actually lent a guitar to a friend a couple times when his were out of commission and he had a show. Of course, it wasn't a Gibson or anything (an inexpensive Fernandes Native X, which he was fond of because of it's silver spakle finish, among other things), but still I didn't want it to get banged up.

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yeah, i'm a very trusting person, and i still trust this guy. it seems like it was out of his control, just some bad guests. but yeah it sucks. at least it still works.


silver sparkle finish? got any pics?

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Yeah, will have to dig it up, but I know that somewhere I have a live shot of it in use.

Don't still have the guitar, as it was sacrificed on the altar of Hamer USA when I had a chance to buy a Hamer Special 5 or 6 years ago and needed to raise some cash. I sold two guitars (that Fernandes Native X and a very cool Yamaha AES500) to be able to get that Hamer.

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yeah i mean you always take a risk when you lend your stuff to someone whether it be guitars or just anything...but yeah i would like to see pics of that guitar to haha

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The live shot must be on my work computer.

Looked like this but with a white pickguard:

http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.c..._2025_19002859

Maybe I can post the shot I'm remembering from work tomorrow.

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i like that a lot but yeah i think a white pickguard would make it look better

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Here's is the live shot of my Fernandes Native X that I was talking about:

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/7...ow71200lv1.jpg

The bassist in the pic, PJ, is now the guitarist for a local punk band called Billy Reese Peters.

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yeah that guitar is definitly slick looking....billy reese peters is quite a name haha

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They're actually pretty successful, much more so than Crash Pad (the band he was in with me) ever was. They have some records out on a small but well-established punk rock label, I think it is No Idea Records probably, if not then Fueld By Ramen. They've had national tours and played outside north America and such.

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o wow that is pretty good well i can't say that i ever had that haha :frownz:

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thats nasty..one of the guys in my band borrows stuff from me on occasion, and quite happily treats it like crap, kicking the power button on the front to switch it off etc. I'm like..dude thats my stuff, back off.

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yeah any more i don't really lend stuff out unless it is something i don't really care about or don't really want anymore...but now i am thinking i might replace the tremelo that got broken with a floyd rose but i dunno yet