<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi MC,<div><br></div><div>I have a stock (working) Avatar here. Can you tell me more about the mods you are doing?</div><div><br></div><div>Ben<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 22 Mar 2025, at 16:22, Michael E Caloroso <mec.forumreader@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">Run, don't walk, run very far away.<div><br></div><div>No idea who Jim Chandler is, but those mods are poorly done and no mention in the auction if schematics for the mods are included. On top of that, I see bad corrosion on the jacks which is a good indicator that this has seen some road abuse. Add all that to a product with a history of labor intensive restorations - replacing tantalum caps, slidepots, ripping out the useless guitar interface, fixing the PSU with the same fault as ARP Omni, other potential problems.</div><div><br></div><div>Did I mention that I bought an Avatar that I am currently restoring and converting into an Odyssey module with MIDI retrofit?</div><div><br></div><div>Other red flags "bought from estate" "don't know how to test it" are known euphemisms for "it is very broken, we don't want to put the $$$ into fixing it, so we're passing the buck onto you".</div><div><br></div><div>Run very far away,</div><div>MC</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM Todd Sines via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Space is a premium in our place and wondering if I should let go of my ARP avatar — and then I saw this.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Anyone know Jim Chandler? This was done in 1982.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">ARP Avatar Custom Modified Guitar Synthesizer 1982<br><a href="https://reverb.com/item/25863293-arp-avatar-custom-modified-guitar-synthesizer-1982?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=25863293" target="_blank">https://reverb.com/item/25863293-arp-avatar-custom-modified-guitar-synthesizer-1982?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=25863293</a></div><br id="m_-2826390719773534902lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Todd</span></div><div><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="line-break:after-white-space"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://scale.la/" target="_blank"><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5f3aef279c6e50436b69e4d1/5f5859b1d99f85e4e2b810a9_SCALE.png"></a><br>Todd Sines, director, <a href="mailto:sines@scale.la" target="_blank">sines@scale.la</a><br><strong>+ SCALE</strong><br><a href="tel:+1.646.258.5214" dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-color:rgba(128,128,128,0.38)" target="_blank">+1.646.258.5214</a> mobile<br><a href="tel:+1.646.543.3329" dir="ltr" style="text-decoration-color:rgba(128,128,128,0.38)" target="_blank">+1.646.543.3329</a> studio<br><a href="http://scale.la/" target="_blank">http://scale.la</a> | <a href="http://toddsines.com/" target="_blank">http://toddsines.com</a></span></div></div></div></div></div><br id="m_-2826390719773534902lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Todd<br></span><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><img src="http://scale.la/SCALE_2015.png"><br>Todd Sines, director, <a href="mailto:sines@scale.la" target="_blank">sines@scale.la</a><br><strong>+ SCALE</strong><br><a dir="ltr" href="tel:+1.646.258.5214" target="_blank">+1.646.258.5214</a> mobile<br><a dir="ltr" href="tel:+1.646.543.3329" target="_blank">+1.646.543.3329</a> studio<br><a href="http://scale.la/" target="_blank">http://scale.la</a> | <a href="http://toddsines.com/" target="_blank">http://toddsines.com<br></a><a href="http://facebook.com/toddsines" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/toddsines</a></span></div><div><a href="http://instagram.com/sines" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font>http://instagram.com/sines</font></a></div><div><font style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://soundcloud.com/sines" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank">http://soundcloud.com/sines</a></font></div></div></div></div>________________________________________________________<br>
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