Friedman fire news

[Samhain]

This was posted by Metro George tonight on FB :

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Hey everyone! I have lots to share, so will present in a good news/bad news format...

Good news: another batch of transformers are shipping from Heyboer tomorrow. I'll be updating the order status and you'll get tracking when yours ship.
More good news: we've been building amps like crazy.
Bad news: headcabs are still a long lead time item. We have amps just waiting for them. I have a few leads I'll be following up on next week that might help get amps out the door.
Good news: I'm building 5 Head Masters this week!
Bad news (for some they are already spoken for. I'll order more parts (relays, footswitches) next week and get more of these done.
Good news: I spoke to Dave Friedman today and they are optimistic that a lot of inventory that survived the recent fire can be salvaged. It will be a ton of work to clean everything up, but it's better than a total loss.
Bad news: electronic part shortages a going to be with us for the foreseeable future. Everyday I have to search out substitute parts for things I can't get. Even simple resistors and caps.
That's enough for now. Play loud.

 

[headlessdeadguy]

Cool story.

 

[TheGreatGreen]

Glad everything seems to be less-than-catastrophic over there so that’s good.

I can’t help but get nervous over the part about component substitution becoming a regular thing though. That sounds horrible for consistency. Hope we don’t have to go back to the days of having to play 10 different examples of the same make and model amp to find the good ones.