Treasure! collectors. Flea Market And "In the Garage" sales

[Cravillon]

Found a Aria Pro II and Japanese Les paul copy at separate occasions, both in pretty bad shape but quite cheap. Also bought an Arion Bass chorus for €10 and cheap HM-2 about 2 months ago. Other than that I haven't seen too many instruments worth buying at flea markets. I do find a lot awesome novelty/toy instruments for next to nothing, which are really cool to play around with. And old videogames of course.

[Swordfishtrombone]

I'll post some pics when I'm feeling up to digging out some of my stuff, but I'll list the stuff that comes to mind off for you now.

Camera: Fotron 3 (nothing to make it work, but it has this cool, wonky 60s aesthetic that I liked. Was free, so whatever)

Clocks: Both older alarm clocks. One is from some company that started in the US, but moved to England during 50s iirc (doesn't work), and the other was made in West Germany (works, but I've never used it). Scored both for maybe $5 total.

Vinyl: Not really into vinyl (hell, I don't even own a record player...), but came across two compilation things from a series that was released (5ish in each one last time I looked) with loads of speeches, radio broadcasts, and other stuff of that nature from WW2. There's meant to be three, but could only find the two. $1 total

Other odd things I have lying around somewhere are a small postal scale from early 50s, one of those irons that you need to heat up on a stove or something, some pot that appears to be vaguely south western/mexican native in origin, Beavis and Butthead bendy doll things, and some other things that I can't be bothered to remember atm.

I'll get pics up when I'm able to dig stuff out.

[Swordfishtrombone]

Okay, between not feeling well + doing other stuff, I kinda forgot to get around to taking + posting pics. Here's some of the ones I was able to dig out:

Cool pot:

Wooden whistle with some native American dude carved into it:

Beavis + Butthead:

Can't see it very well, but it's a candle holder that appears to be made out of brass or some similar metal. I use it to hold picks:

Fotron 3 camera:

Not a pipe:

Ingersoll clock (nonfunctional):

Bradley clock from West Germany (functional, something something German engineering):

Those records that I mentioned in my previous post:


Sorry for taking so long to post these, guys.

[BitchPudding]

I've found lots of stuff over the years.

Luckily enough my fiance's father Joel works in landscaping and occasionally hauls in massive amounts of stuff from the houses he works on. So i often get first pickin's before stuff gets tossed. I've found (and kept):

-Old military badges. I picked out two that are Navy since I have family members that have served and put them on the strap of my bass. The rest I have stored since I'm scared to wear them.

-Two futons that replaced my bed. One has become something of a guitar island for my many instruments. The other I sleep on. Makes the place nice an cosy for when I have friends over.

-An old bathhouse medicine cabinet. The wood was very old but in tact as luck would have it. So I cleaned up that bitch and mounted it to my wall. It currently stores my incense collection and candles.

-Wii games, specifically Mario Party and Super Mario Brothers.

-An old Casio Keyboard. Its pretty crummy, but I usually run it through pedals if I wan something nasty sounding. I plan on circuit bending it eventually.

-Lots of rich people clothes.

-Some old jazz CD's.

-A scream mask that has since been mounted on the fence to oversea the mess. Might nab it for the lulz one day.

Outside of that, I go to lots of flea markets and thrift shops to scour for hand me downs. At these locations I got:

-Bootleg Pokemon cards

-An original Gameboy DMG model, Fully functional with games.

-A volume pedal.

-A gamecube who's price I heckled down from $50 to $15 (proud of that one).

-and most recently an old battery powered AM/FM radio that functions like an old boom box.

Joel has also dug up guitars before but that was before I came in the picture. So here's hoping he finds on while I'm here!


I'll get pics tomorrow once I'm back at homebase.

[snipelfritz]

Damn, too bad this thread is out of season. I should head up to shorewood in the spring for some estate sales or something.

[Swordfishtrombone]

Can't wait to see those pics, BitchPudding!

Also, I forgot to mention it when I made my last post, I saw an old harmony acoustic like this when I was shopping for jeans at thrift store the other day:



They wanted $20 for it, and I would have got it if it wasn't for it needing some repairs (new saddle, part of fretboard coming off + top needing to be reglued) that I'm not familiar with doing. I enjoy working on my guitars and learning new things and all that, but I've been feeling so shit (both mentally and physically) lately that I can't be bothered to deal with that. It sucks cus I've always had a thing for those old cheapo acoustics, but I guess I'll try to find another one at some point in the future instead. I hope someone that's willing/able to do the repairs buys it and gives it some love.

[BitchPudding]

Alrighty, here comes the shit. NSFW for amount of pics.

NSFW: show

Potato pic of the protel volume pedal. Theres barely anything going on inside wirig wise, I could probaby have the circut resized in something tinier. Which I may do once Skully is out of his hiatus. Cause DIRGE.


The Bath House medicine cabinet. Smelled like dead wood and soap, now it smells of incense.



Old battery powered radio. Did some research and it seems to be from the 80's. Will be sick to have around if it works.


My Knightlight.


The brown futon, usually used for guitar storage and a work bench. Currently messy.


The grey futon where me and my dog sleep. Also messy.


Assorted tech junk next to my computer. The wiring is non functional in the speakers, died after I blasted Sunn o))) at max volume. The two switch bays power everything in my room, including my pedalboard and amps. The xbox sorta works, the eject and power buttons are busted but it will power on and play the Halo 2 disk thats inside. The frilly laptop is my main computer, using it currently attached to a second monitor, keyboard and mouse. The bright side is no one will steal it! lol.



My second computer, only used for recording due to the non functioning wireless card. It also houses my music library. Still running XP like a true bitch. Next to the computer is a 200 CD holder/player. Just need to replace the lazer diode so it doesnt skip as much. So beefy. the stereo on top is junk cause the speakers for it are dead. So its basically a platform. The subwoofer next to it is for the XP.

That's the bulk of it so far. All of this is stuff I've gotten second hand for free. Some stuff I had to referb a bit but for the most part everything functions....sorta.

[rustywire]

Lol@Knightlight. Awesome.

I didn't buy anything on BF or CM. But I managed to find myself with a whole bunch of new stuff over the past week

New:
Pair of JBL LSR305 studio monitors
Jamstands for the monitors
a NOS '90s Korean made Epiphone PA
2 new records; a gatefold 2xLP and a 12"
Used:
160+ secondhand 45s & 100+ secondhand LPs...both in remarkably good condition
DMM #5, another '80/'81 unit
'50s Revere 1/4" reel2reel (needs new pinch rollers)
Anvil case, approx PT Jr sized

Only had to come out of pocket on the Monitors/stands, new records & DMM

[Swordfishtrombone]

That's some pretty cool stuff, Pudding. Wish I could come across music related stuff more often.