Sir Knowsalotnot

Hi guys, first time here. I'm not a Guitarist per se, I'm mostly a keyboards man. I procured my Crate KX 160 in a trade...(2 JBL PA cabinets. This was back in 1989 I used it for club gigs, and it didn't fail me. I used it with a "Voce" mini B and a midi setup with a Roland G800 keyboard, It has 160 watts of power and features a 15" Crate Custom woofer and a Foster bullet tweeter housed in a ported tuned enclosure. It really kicks ass! Well, when it is working any way.... I'm 78 now, retired, and don't get out to play much anymore. But aside from that the KX160 has developed a little quirk! The sound output goes dead after mebbe 7 -10 minutes. I'd like to find a tech that would fix it, but the unit is so old the schematics are difficult to find. So... I bought myself a "Line 6 Spyder IV" with 2 "Celestion" 12's it's an amp emulator, and really amazing!! Recemtly built a Fender strat clone, and a Gretsch Country Gentleman clone. I have almost completed a "Bruno Ventura" 12 string Acoustic restoration. Not a well known brand and worth mebbe 300 bucks. It had sat in someone's attic, no case, for 10 years or more I'm told. Looking at the guitar I'd agree!!! the neck was over trussed into a bowed position and the truss rod nut was stripped, So a new dual action rod was replacing the old single rod. There was also a slight radial twist in the neck. Long story short, it required a neck reset, got a new fretboard and Nickle frets, a new pick guard Peizo under saddle pickup with a pre-amp and integral tuner. Tuner keys were reusable,But it got a new (bone) nut and saddle. Now this was done out of pity for the poor guitar being in a Houston attic for ten years, unloved unplayed, just gathering dust, dirt and humidity Lots of humidity. Most of the time the humidity is in the 80% plus! range and summer temps in the last six years have been in the triple digits here. So before I bore y'all to death I'll end this here I'll stop back with an update, in the future.