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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: MrBump on November 08, 2009, 11:52:35 AM

Title: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: MrBump on November 08, 2009, 11:52:35 AM
Just looking on the Thomann site, and they do an own brand small valve amp, the Harley Benton GA 5 H.

"GASH".

Ha, ha, ha!
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: badgermark on November 08, 2009, 12:01:24 PM
I call all my guitars the same name, which is the same nickname I give my penis. Excalibur.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: gingataff on November 08, 2009, 12:12:25 PM
In the '80s Yamaha made a pickup called the
Quote from: Yamaha MG-M guitar ad
"FOCUS" - SH1T (Ceramic)


EDIT: I also remember seeing a small practice amp in a second hand shop, the brand name was P.O.S.
 :?
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: DavidRees on November 08, 2009, 12:40:06 PM
Rothwell's Love Squeeze compressor - coolest name ever
regards - david
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: WezV on November 08, 2009, 12:50:44 PM
big muff has to be the classic, although the BYOC version 'large beaver' has to rate a close second
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Plexi Ken on November 08, 2009, 01:20:46 PM
Wasn't there an amp with a channel switcher called Foot Unit 2  - f*ck you too  :lol:
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Jonny on November 08, 2009, 02:28:09 PM
I call all my guitars the same name, which is the same nickname I give my penis. Excalibur.
lmfao, quoted. Soooo quoted.

Noooo it won't fit the word limit - gah!
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: dave_mc on November 08, 2009, 06:07:20 PM
the sho is a fairly crude name too.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: nfe on November 08, 2009, 06:35:32 PM
I thought this was gonna be about the names people give to their gear, something which makes we want to stab myself in the face.

I'm glad it isn't.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Philly Q on November 08, 2009, 06:46:28 PM
It's childish, but I still find this funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by7nNwQe_Sc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by7nNwQe_Sc)
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Ratrod on November 09, 2009, 11:35:56 AM
There was a pedal that was called Teese Monkeys Fly Out Butt.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: tomjackson on November 09, 2009, 11:48:06 AM


http://www.coopersonic.com/

The valve slapper has Thrust, Ball's, Tits and Ass controls.....
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Ratrod on November 09, 2009, 11:57:39 AM
And how about the Malekko Assmaster bass overdrive?
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Dmoney on November 09, 2009, 12:11:35 PM
nobody mentioned koch and fuchs yet?
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: ToneMonkey on November 09, 2009, 12:14:57 PM
Not guitar related, but I once saw a snooker cue endorsed by Marco Foo.  It was called the Foo Cue.... made me larf anyway.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Philly Q on November 09, 2009, 12:24:55 PM
(http://media.createdigitalmedia.net/cdmu/images/storiespre2k6/TX2big2.jpg)
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Herbie the Rad Dorklift on November 09, 2009, 01:49:52 PM
####!!z Acoustic guitars.

http://www.####!!z-guitars.de/en/ (http://www.####!!z-guitars.de/en/)

Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: DavidRees on November 09, 2009, 09:09:24 PM
okay Philly you win!!
regards david
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: il˙ti on November 09, 2009, 10:03:35 PM
I thought this was gonna be about the names people give to their gear, something which makes we want to stab myself in the face.

I'm glad it isn't.
I don't think said people would mind if you stabbed yourself in the face.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: nfe on November 09, 2009, 10:15:54 PM
I thought this was gonna be about the names people give to their gear, something which makes we want to stab myself in the face.

I'm glad it isn't.
I don't think said people would mind if you stabbed yourself in the face.

I'd imagine not, but I can always sit safe in the knowledge that I'm infinitely less of a wank.  :)

Oh, and chicks dig scars, so I'd see an even higher percentage of the birds they cannae get unless they buffer, y'know?
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: il˙ti on November 09, 2009, 11:12:53 PM
cannae get unless they buffer, y'know?

'fraid I don't, good sir.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: nfe on November 09, 2009, 11:22:22 PM
...

I'm the very face of astonishment  :wink:
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: CaptainDesslock on November 09, 2009, 11:22:39 PM
I thought this was gonna be about the names people give to their gear, something which makes we want to stab myself in the face.

I'm glad it isn't.
I don't think said people would mind if you stabbed yourself in the face.

I'd imagine not, but I can always sit safe in the knowledge that I'm infinitely less of a wank.  :)

Oh, and chicks dig scars, so I'd see an even higher percentage of the birds they cannae get unless they buffer, y'know?

You don't name your guitars NFE? Is it really that offensive to said face?  :D
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: nfe on November 09, 2009, 11:27:40 PM
I thought this was gonna be about the names people give to their gear, something which makes we want to stab myself in the face.

I'm glad it isn't.
I don't think said people would mind if you stabbed yourself in the face.

I'd imagine not, but I can always sit safe in the knowledge that I'm infinitely less of a wank.  :)

Oh, and chicks dig scars, so I'd see an even higher percentage of the birds they cannae get unless they buffer, y'know?

You don't name your guitars NFE? Is it really that offensive to said face?  :D

I'm not a 12 year old girl.

Honestly, it just drives me up the wall. At work, even hearing dafties utter nonsense like "SHE plays great" makes half the shop staff visibly wince. It just seems so unbearably childish. People naming ANY inanimate object seems stupid to me, though I can almost tolerate boats, given it's such an old tradition.

Is this really unusual? As I say, the entire staff at my work find it laughable, and we're a whole shop of musicians, obviously.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: CaptainDesslock on November 09, 2009, 11:35:24 PM
I thought this was gonna be about the names people give to their gear, something which makes we want to stab myself in the face.

I'm glad it isn't.
I don't think said people would mind if you stabbed yourself in the face.

I'd imagine not, but I can always sit safe in the knowledge that I'm infinitely less of a wank.  :)

Oh, and chicks dig scars, so I'd see an even higher percentage of the birds they cannae get unless they buffer, y'know?

You don't name your guitars NFE? Is it really that offensive to said face?  :D

I'm not a 12 year old girl.

Honestly, it just drives me up the wall. At work, even hearing dafties utter nonsense like "SHE plays great" makes half the shop staff visibly wince. It just seems so unbearably childish. People naming ANY inanimate object seems stupid to me, though I can almost tolerate boats, given it's such an old tradition.

Is this really unusual? As I say, the entire staff at my work find it laughable, and we're a whole shop of musicians, obviously.

Hmm...I think your probably on the far side of the fence this time, inanimate objects that can have a "personality" of sorts and is central to your craft (a ship, a car, a guitar) are often designated in the feminine tense.  Its not uncommon at all really.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Philly Q on November 09, 2009, 11:57:08 PM
Honestly, it just drives me up the wall. At work, even hearing dafties utter nonsense like "SHE plays great" makes half the shop staff visibly wince. It just seems so unbearably childish. People naming ANY inanimate object seems stupid to me, though I can almost tolerate boats, given it's such an old tradition.

Is this really unusual? As I say, the entire staff at my work find it laughable, and we're a whole shop of musicians, obviously.

I tend to agree.  Not so bothered about naming things - it can be just a convenient label, with no great anthropomorphic significance -  but when people call guitars "she" (or refer to their car as "the old girl") it does make me cringe.

Which doesn't mean I don't get sentimentally attached to inanimate objects.  I tend to ascribe mystical significance to the fact that something's old, or that I've owned it a long time.  Which is why I wouldn't carve up a vintage guitar.  Probably just as bad as the names thing, really.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Herbie the Rad Dorklift on November 10, 2009, 01:12:02 PM
Surely my entry wins. It was blanked out for God's sake!

C untz Guitars, google it!
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: FernandoDuarte on November 10, 2009, 03:37:47 PM
That pedal PhillyQ found is amazing!
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: gingataff on November 10, 2009, 04:15:45 PM
I think Way Huge's Swollen Pickle and Pork Loin should be up for consideration.

Shame he was bought up by Dunlop :(
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: il˙ti on November 10, 2009, 10:19:04 PM
...

I'm the very face of astonishment  :wink:

I still have no idea what "cannae get unless they buffer" means.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: nfe on November 10, 2009, 10:23:16 PM
Cannae just means Can't. Internet videos buffer.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: badgermark on November 10, 2009, 10:32:53 PM
...

I'm the very face of astonishment  :wink:

I still have no idea what "cannae get unless they buffer" means.

Bloody southern pansies.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: il˙ti on November 10, 2009, 11:39:39 PM
That's pesh, ye'd freeze ye bollocks off in Canada ye nyaff!
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: dave_mc on November 10, 2009, 11:44:21 PM
I tend to agree.  Not so bothered about naming things - it can be just a convenient label, with no great anthropomorphic significance -  but when people call guitars "she" (or refer to their car as "the old girl") it does make me cringe.

while i agree and don't call inanimate objects "he" or "she", i wonder is it a throwback to when english had genders for nouns? I know most other european languages do (certainly romance and germanic). and english is pretty much german and norse whacked together with french and a bit of latin. and maybe a wee bit of celtic.

EDIT: yup, old english had gender for nouns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_english#Germanic_origins

yeah, i know i suck for being interested in this kind of shite. :lol:
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: nfe on November 10, 2009, 11:51:11 PM
If people regularly did it with ANY inanimate object then there'd maybe be some merit in that. But they don't, it's only ever prized possessions or something they're proud to own.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: dave_mc on November 10, 2009, 11:58:35 PM
yeah, of course, they might just be prats. :lol:

it's done a lot with ships, though. they always seem to be called "she". though any words for ship in either german or french i just looked up were either neuter or masculine... :lol:

going with prats, yeah. :lol:
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Philly Q on November 11, 2009, 12:04:57 AM
while i agree and don't call inanimate objects "he" or "she", i wonder is it a throwback to when english had genders for nouns? I know most other european languages do (certainly romance and germanic). and english is pretty much german and norse whacked together with french and a bit of latin. and maybe a wee bit of celtic.

EDIT: yup, old english had gender for nouns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_english#Germanic_origins

yeah, i know i suck for being interested in this kind of shiteee. :lol:

It's a good argument, Dave, but why is it always "she" not "he"?  Surely old English nouns had both genders, just like modern languages.

Lets stick with prats.  :lol:
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Mr. Air on November 11, 2009, 11:55:30 AM
I tend to agree.  Not so bothered about naming things - it can be just a convenient label, with no great anthropomorphic significance -  but when people call guitars "she" (or refer to their car as "the old girl") it does make me cringe.

while i agree and don't call inanimate objects "he" or "she", i wonder is it a throwback to when english had genders for nouns? I know most other european languages do (certainly romance and germanic). and english is pretty much german and norse whacked together with french and a bit of latin. and maybe a wee bit of celtic.

EDIT: yup, old english had gender for nouns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_english#Germanic_origins

yeah, i know i suck for being interested in this kind of shitee. :lol:

No need to think you suck, Dave. Interest in language is quite healthy in my book.  :D
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Plexi Ken on November 11, 2009, 12:43:21 PM
That's pesh, ye'd freeze ye bollocks off in Canada ye nyaff!

Bollocks is a little more English (but not uncommon in Scotland), baws (balls) would be more common/traditional (at least in the West).
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Will on November 11, 2009, 12:44:18 PM
If people regularly did it with ANY inanimate object then there'd maybe be some merit in that. But they don't, it's only ever prized possessions or something they're proud to own.


If people all did the same thing, life would be boring. It atleast gives you something to talk about, right??
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: JDC on November 11, 2009, 03:44:18 PM
If people regularly did it with ANY inanimate object then there'd maybe be some merit in that. But they don't, it's only ever prized possessions or something they're proud to own.


If people all did the same thing, life would be boring. It atleast gives you something to talk about, right??

isn't the weather good enough for you?
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: choucas09 on November 11, 2009, 08:47:04 PM
No it's raining.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: Lukie on November 12, 2009, 06:34:57 PM
What about the zvex Super Hard-On?   :D
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: WezV on November 12, 2009, 06:41:21 PM
screw you guys!!!   my archtop is called bertha, my epi LP is gertrude and my old 3/4 size camping classical has XcalibA carved into the headstock with a pen knife  :P    ;)

Nfe - can you video the face stabbing please, i want to know you are taking this seriously ;)
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: AndyR on November 12, 2009, 07:38:22 PM
Yeah we (me, Edith and Alice) wanna see the scars :lol:

Not all me geetars have names though - and Edith and Alice aren't even my favourites, but the names just appeared from somewhere and stuck.
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: CaptainDesslock on November 12, 2009, 11:59:45 PM
Yeah we (me, Edith and Alice) wanna see the scars :lol:


no!!!!

We need nfe on this forum, without all his ruckus rousing we'd all just be pissing ourselves over in politeness!

Someone needs to be the blunt voice of dissent, and he's teh man for the job!
Title: Re: Amusing Names For Gear.
Post by: marauder on December 17, 2009, 12:17:28 PM
http://biyang.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=6042131

Complementary to the GASH.