It hurts me to do this but there's a deal on a Mesa I'm intrigued about.My amp started life as a Crate V3112 (30w, 1x12 combo) which I bought new in 2006 for $549. Built in USA, Class A, 3 x 12ax7, 4 x EL84, spring reverb, Celestion speaker, boost button and presence button (basically a mid and treble boost respectively), 2 button footswitch for Ch 2 (drive) and boost.I had it modded with the SLO mod with turns the gain stage into that of a Soldano Lead 100. When I was with the tech (SHO amps in Syracuse, NY) we also went over the schematic and incorporated a Mesa MK IIC into there as well, removing around 70% of the stock components and replacing them with boutique Sprague and Mallory components to a) even out the sound b) more clean headroom c) a huge variety of gain tones from classic rock at low gain to super-beefed up Marshall sounds at the high end d) a smoother drive and not the fizz that stock units have.It's LOUD.There's quite possibly not another amp like this and I wanted the most versatile thing I could get my hands on since I played a lot of different styles and it's nice going from super clean to fiery death. The clean sound is awesome... gets a lot of compliments and surprised looksand the drive can do a hell of a lot. Sounds great with strats, teles or LPs.The preamp tubes were replaced with this set:I bought it from Amazon about... 6 or 7 months ago. Plenty of life left.Power tubes are Sovteks. I was told by aforementioned tech to install JJs but honestly, these sound rather nice.Speaker: stock Celestion 70/80. Does a fine job.This is a stock photo but my amp is identical, albeit with a small ding in one of the corner metal things.Back panel looks like this (photo from elsewhere but again, mine is identical)If you see those metal tubes through the grill they're the equivalent of tube-tamers and there's also a cage around the tubes too which looks like this:One thing you should be aware of - the knobs were a bitch to see in the dark due to lack of any real pointers on there. I sloppily applied some black nail varnish to mark dots on the knobs to facilitate indication. This can be scraped off if you so desire, or you can replace the knobs entirely... they're more of a style-over-substance situation.Have some reviews:PRICE: I'd like to get around $500 out of it, but I'm open to offers/trades. The amp I'm looking at is a Mesa F-30 FWIW.If you're around Upstate NY we can work something out, but if it's past Tuesday I'll be out West in Montana for about 6 months.