Modern Saint
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Dumble was famous for that too. I knew a guy in college (actually a friend of El Borrachito's) who ordered a Dumble in the early 90's. At that point the process was to pay the full amount of $5500 and then wait for two years. You were told that if you pestered Howard about the build you'd lose your deposit and go to the back of the line. This guy waited almost two and a half years and then finally called to find out that Howard had given his amp to Jackson Brown and he'd have to wait even longer. I never heard how that story finally turned out.
When I moved to SoCal in '89, Steve Trovato was my private counsler at MI for my first 2 quarters. I mentioned to him of my interest in a Dumble and he was in the process of ordering one. He told me that the waiting list was about a year and was getting longer then. I kind blew the idea off after that.
By the mid 90's I started to get an interest in Trainwreck amps and started to correspond with Ken Fischer. Sadly his illness kind of stopped him from taking any more orders for new builds. Ken mentioned to me that if his health improved, he would take an order from me but sadly we lost a great one in early 2000 - RIP Ken.