I wasn't going to bother with this thread after seeing those Lions.... they are just too much!
Ok, well... I'd been after a Cornford Hurricane for a while but just hadn't the cash but came across one that had been made into a head... a flippin' horrible leppard print one. They had also covered the control panel with some kind of horrid gold film, maybe to give it a Plexi look? I don't know. Bottom line is, apart from a couple of crackly pots it sounded wonderful. Oh yeah, the reverb unit came in a bag, whoever designed the head box didn't take into account the reverb unit? :lol: WTF. After 2 patient night of softening the gold film and nearly buring out my better halfs hairdryer, the chassis was back to normal with minimal damage to any of the lettering. So I called both Mongotone and Cornford ref a combo box (I would have loved a Mongotone built one - can't say enough about his work) but they were both too expensive, I may as well have bought a combo to start with. I got lucky and found an oversized 1 x 12 Cornford cab on the Bay and drove to surrey to pick it up. The cab was pretty darn good and to be honest I started to doubt if I should be chopping this up to get the amp to fit. I shouldn't have doubted myself, it all turned out pretty good... looks good and sounds huge. So I guess it's a kind of one off... a wide bodied Hurricane! :lol:
The new pedal is a Keeley Ltd Edition Time Machine for adding a littlemore of the same to my amps, haven't really got a clue why I bought it but I did! :lol: Should be here today ready for Saturdays gig.
