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Hey all,
Thought it would be interesting to hear what your best musical find has been at a garage/yard sale, flea market, thrift store, dumpster, etc.

And...go!

I once scored a 1967 Harmony Archtone tobaccoburst-lookin' archtop guitar for 20bux, "as is". It had a few hairline cracks that were easy to fix.
And a 1948 Olds Special tenor trombone for 40bux! I made a mute for it out of a few pieces of cork, a coffee creamer bottle and a contact mic. It enables you to play it without pissing everyone off while also running it through effects 'n stuff.
Now if only I actually practiced.

Oh hey look what my dad just brought over

I found a really cool cheap guitar in a market shop in india, but I ended up not buying it solely because I hadn't withdrawn cash that day. Low key regret, even though I'm sure it was crap quality.

got one of these at a flea market for $40. I had to have a power supply cobbled together for it, and a couple of the keys didn't work, but it was a lot of fun. I gave it to a bandmate who I think actually threw it out eventually, like an asshole.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ZOEnnuF8k[/youtube]

I found this bass once that was a sunburst LP with an F hole thin line style. Passive, some no name humbucker. Actually sounded great. Gave it to a buddy of mine whos been using it for making beats. Sounds super clean.

Here's it being used with my noise rock band a few years ago.

My second electric was found in a skip (a kind of temporary dumpster)

Paul_C wrote:My second electric was found in a skip (a kind of temporary dumpster)

Was probably stolen

Once got a boss ce-2 and a fulltone supa-trem for $20 each at an estate sale. Flipped em both and used the cash towards a new amp. My stepdad is seriously the king of finding crazy deals tho, i'll have to find some pics of his weird scores.

I'm afraid of putting too much in this thread...

A couple years ago from a warehouse sale at a local electronics recycler I picked up three AB International Precedent 1100A power amps (It's a big and heavy class H power amp good for 500 wpc into 8 ohms down to 1100 wpc into 2, or 1700 into 4 bridged) and a project Syncaset 234 for $25. Nothing worked completely right out of the gate, but I do have two of the amps up and running now.

Achtane wrote:I once scored a 1967 Harmony Archtone tobaccoburst-lookin' archtop guitar for 20bux, "as is". It had a few hairline cracks that were easy to fix.
And a 1948 Olds Special tenor trombone for 40bux! I made a mute for it out of a few pieces of cork, a coffee creamer bottle and a contact mic. It enables you to play it without pissing everyone off while also running it through effects 'n stuff.
Now if only I actually practiced.

Nice, that’s awesome! I always feel like I’m going to luck out and find something sweet like a vintage harmony, but no luck yet!

friendship wrote:got one of these at a flea market for $40. I had to have a power supply cobbled together for it, and a couple of the keys didn't work, but it was a lot of fun. I gave it to a bandmate who I think actually threw it out eventually, like an asshole.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ZOEnnuF8k[/youtube]

What a butthole!

Blood_mountain wrote:
What a butthole!

Don't date your bandmates lesson: learned.

I daydream on finding something musical, but it's usually teddy bears and old chairs...the dumpster where I used to live had a broken acoustic guitar.. and picks littered around from time to time, tons of times where Ive seen speakers & I regret not thinking at the time "parts"

BitchPudding wrote:I found this bass once that was a sunburst LP with an F hole thin line style. Passive, some no name humbucker. Actually sounded great. Gave it to a buddy of mine whos been using it for making beats. Sounds super clean.

Here's it being used with my noise rock band a few years ago.

Looks like a nice find! Do you have any pictures of the full bass?