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Aw man that Spector Forte is back at BassBros again... Haunting me it is! Haunting me I tell you...

That conveniently ignores the fact that musical instrument amplifiers only form part of the "sound" because when amplified instruments first started appearing the technology wasn't up to producing clean tones at any serious volume. The original idea of the electric guitar and bass was that they replicated the sound of their acoustic counterparts put louder. Of course with what was available and, more importantly, affordable in the 30s and 40s that was impossible, so they settled for being able to be heard over the rest of the instruments in the dance band. Listen to early amplified guitarists and they are all favouring clean sounds. The "character" that the amplification process imparted on the sound was an annoyance and not initially a desirable feature. While it is possible to build a clean valve amp, it's not cheap and it's not very efficient in electrical terms. Had the idea of the electric guitar and bass not come along until solid state amplification was well-established and easily affordable, the sorts of sounds we'd be used to would be very different.

Walking The Dog - Stones

I've always assumed that was intentional. I guess it show's that mistakes in music can make music better.

That's what i thought also, when i had Paul made me a new body (2011) I wasn't able to make one myself, plus the fact that if Paul would build it it would be an all original Wal again. Ever since i started at a luthiers school in 2018 i had thoughts if i could restore this body, cause its a really nice piece of wood with a beautiful centre stripe, but there's to many wood missing on crucial places to make something nice of it again... It's a shame but now i'm glad i've got some cash for it so i can use it for the new build!

Been thinking about this again (another sleepness night). The die used in the machine to stamp this out can't have been broken otherwise more material, not less, would be left. If it was broken and then repaired (die heads aren't cheap to make so repairing it makes sense, toolmakers are skilled craftsmen) then there would be more material in the tuner head. I'm going with a different die was made and perhaps they were looking to align this with something else. I will now do my best not to think about this as I walk the dog. Rob

Lead-o Boz Scaggs

I Need a Collar - Aloe Blacc

“Get back on E,” in Jean Genie, the ‘butt’ piano chord and laugh at the beginning of Roxanne, the random opera singer, picked up on Does Everyone Stare. All mistakes/unintended moments, but kept in by a smart producer/s are now ingrained, integral parts of those songs.

Walk This Way - Aerosmith

If that was the case FOH and recording studios wouldn't have converted to digital many years ago.

Given the guy was a born distuptor I think he’d find the veneration of his 70 year old designs and manufacturing methods laughable. He’d also probably take offence at everyone saying he was a cheapskate.

I don't think Dan was talking about the relatively small differences in quoted power that you can get by using different criteria when measuring. For example you can inflate the power rating by measuring at 10% distortion rather than at 1% but it won't be hugely different. Wikipedia quotes a variation of 10-20% between power as measured to EIA and FTC standards. That's confusing for many consumers but not actually dishonest, especially if the measuremnt criteria are disclosed. I think Dan was simply warning the OP who is not a technical person that sometimes advertisers tell lies. A good example of that would be Bugera who rate their BV1001M at 2,000W when it actually measures in at just over 700W into 4ohms at the point it starts clipping.

They all look genuine to me and match perfectly, but the headstock might be a Rickenbacker re-mould of the Gibson copy of an original Guild, Gretsch rip-off? To be sure, I'd sell it, or swap for a microphone. 👍