View Full Version : Today's Yard Sale Booty
Mr Graphic
05-25-2007, 07:43 PM
http://cityguitar.smugmug.com/photos/156246585-L-1.jpg
http://cityguitar.smugmug.com/photos/156246612-L-1.jpgALWAYS get out of the car and be sure to have a crisp hundred dollar bill handy...:dude
trpullen
05-25-2007, 07:44 PM
you dirty rat
tinkercity
05-25-2007, 07:45 PM
Jesus H. Christ!
Bo Faulkner
05-25-2007, 07:45 PM
how it sound?? (nice score!)
Mr Graphic
05-25-2007, 08:16 PM
It's on the bench now, disassembled, and will be at it's best tomorrow. It sounded pretty darn good for the 30 seconds I played it. Appears absolutely untouched. http://cityguitar.smugmug.com/photos/156273806-L-2.jpghttp://cityguitar.smugmug.com/photos/156246553-L.jpg
Tread
05-25-2007, 08:27 PM
WOW! ...Great Score!:AOK
BadCat
05-25-2007, 08:27 PM
Wow!!!!
teleamp
05-25-2007, 08:40 PM
you dirty rat
+1
Mike
hongsta
05-25-2007, 08:41 PM
I'll pay you TWICE what you paid :D
This is a very generous offer. You are doubling your money.
I'll even cover shipping and paypal fees! :roll
pfflam
05-25-2007, 08:45 PM
I dreaded opening this thread because I knew, JUST KNEW, I'd see exactly THAT AMP (or another equally beautiful Fender) . . .
Argh! -I'm gassing for Fenders right nfow . . . I need a doctor! Or a decent job!
Great score . . . . don't tell me you actually paid $100-?!?!
Gumby
05-25-2007, 09:32 PM
Nice score
Me too - as soon as I saw the title, I thought Fender. Nice.
dewman
05-25-2007, 09:36 PM
cap job- do it first....before even powering it up...just the electrolyics- then sit back and smile
:BEER Doesn`t this only happen in movies?:drool. Enjoy!
Mr. Mandolin
05-25-2007, 10:42 PM
that is so nice! the stuff we get around here tends to be crap solid state, and beat on. I have only ever once seen a (working) tube amp at a local garage sale and it was an Airline.
bluesjuke
05-25-2007, 11:02 PM
Couldn't talk them down any?
Nice find!
Billy Blooze
05-26-2007, 12:54 AM
How come I never find anything like that at garage sales ????????????????
gkoelling
05-26-2007, 05:38 AM
How come I never find anything like that at garage sales ????????????????
These are always my exact sentiments. However, I don't think I've ever bothered with a garage sale, so... :rolleyes:
The thing that gets me is...$100.00!!!???!!?!?
Argonaut4
05-26-2007, 05:46 AM
Dear lord.........
It's aged perfectly. What a great find.
Congrats!
Mr Graphic
05-26-2007, 05:52 AM
Stayed up late disassembling, cleaning, & routine maintenence. It is literally untouched. It may benefit from a more extensive service, but it sounds perfect as it sits. It's quiet, everything works perfectly, and it RIPS on 10!!! Has some nice Mullards in it too. Now all I need is the perfect boost pedal so I can play at lower volumes.
http://cityguitar.smugmug.com/photos/156316998-L-1.jpghttp://cityguitar.smugmug.com/photos/156406464-L-1.jpg
Mr Graphic
05-26-2007, 05:58 AM
http://cityguitar.smugmug.com/photos/156320031-L-1.jpg
wingwalker
05-26-2007, 06:17 AM
As someone who's trying to find and afford an early Silverface princeton reverb I am INSANELY jealous!!!
Best i've ver donw ws a Sond City 50+ head at a yard sale...but even that was a lot more than $100!!!
Very nice amp indeed, enjoy it for me too!!!
frank62
05-26-2007, 06:36 AM
That's great. There is still stuff like that out there. Did you ask them where the guitar is?
Jarrett
05-26-2007, 07:26 AM
Greatness
Garygtr
05-26-2007, 07:32 AM
Stayed up late disassembling, cleaning, & routine maintenence. It is literally untouched. It may benefit from a more extensive service, but it sounds perfect as it sits. It's quiet, everything works perfectly, and it RIPS on 10!!! Has some nice Mullards in it too. Now all I need is the perfect boost pedal so I can play at lower volumes.
http://cityguitar.smugmug.com/photos/156316998-L-1.jpghttp://cityguitar.smugmug.com/photos/156317005-L-1.jpg
Where in MA are you? Wait-I don't wanna know. You're probably right down the street from me and snagged this beaut while I was sleeping :BITCH
:D Congrats!
78tsubaki
05-26-2007, 07:34 AM
That's great. There is still stuff like that out there. Did you ask them where the guitar is?
Thats the $200.00 question!
You saved that Princeton. It was languishing under someones canning jars and you gave it the love it deserved.
JimAnsell
05-26-2007, 07:36 AM
No... and Way....
v-verb
05-26-2007, 07:40 AM
Score of the year!
Even better than that $500 plexi that was scored near Toronto - that needed some extensive work IIRC
James
05-26-2007, 07:41 AM
Great score! I'm in MA too. Where on earth did you find that? I wanna scope out the garage sales in your neighborhood, mate! :AOK
Lou Brush
05-26-2007, 07:58 AM
cap job- do it first....before even powering it up...just the electrolyics- then sit back and smile
Nope. Personally, I'd keep your electronically pristine amp intact. Just my 2 cents. Nice score, btw. I think I'm going garage saling today :D
Hackubus
05-26-2007, 08:00 AM
WOW. You did pretty good!
John Phillips
05-26-2007, 08:05 AM
http://cityguitar.smugmug.com/photos/156317005-L-1.jpg
You might at least have put the back panel back on the right way up :).
I know it's cool to find an amp as original as this, but please think of your own safety and install a 3-wire cord, even if you don't want to replace the electrolytics.
Mr Graphic
05-26-2007, 08:09 AM
Thanks, panel is now on properly {Duh}, and a three prong cord is in its future. You might at least have put the back panel back on the right way up :).
I know it's cool to find an amp as original as this, but please think of your own safety and install a 3-wire cord, even if you don't want to replace the electrolytics.
GuitarsFromMars
05-26-2007, 08:18 AM
One great deal,Mr.G,and a nice clean up job...
Jon Silberman
05-26-2007, 08:22 AM
HOLY SHIT! You scored!!!
picnic
05-26-2007, 10:48 AM
Congrats!!! I love hitting garage sales. You found a garage band sale.
Wow! :dude Congratulations!
Nolatone Ampworks
05-26-2007, 11:45 AM
http://cityguitar.smugmug.com/photos/156320031-L-1.jpg
Ok, NOW your just being hateful, rubbing it in like that.
All I ever see at garage sales is crap I wouldn't have played with when I was a kid!
Congrats (dirt bag!) :BOUNCE
I did just get a BadCat Panther R 1x12 combo is screaming read. It wasn't at a yard sale though, and it was a bit more than a C note!
Paul
808Beat
05-26-2007, 12:11 PM
Just had to chime in and say "You must have some good karma!" One of these days I hope I can score like that too. Good going.
Tread
05-26-2007, 01:11 PM
Thanks man, plus a whole lot of looking. I should tell you about the $10.00 Oud I bought a few months back. I never even heard of an Oud......................Sold on the bay for $3,600.00!!! :D http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/DAT12/ebayForSale/IndianInstrument012.jpg
STOP IT! ...You're Killin' Me! :)
MojoFilter
05-26-2007, 01:42 PM
That's awesome! I've got a similar story with one of my amps, but I'm not going to even try to steal your thunder.
Great score!!!
gkoelling
05-26-2007, 01:49 PM
I think I'm going to be sick.
v-verb
05-26-2007, 02:14 PM
That's awesome! I've got a similar story with one of my amps, but I'm not going to even try to steal your thunder.
Great score!!!
Dude - tell us!! Please...:RoCkIn
pfflam
05-26-2007, 02:17 PM
As someone who's trying to find and afford an early Silverface princeton reverb I am INSANELY jealous!!!
in my case its just:
"As someone . . . I am INSANELY jealous!!!
TheGrooveking
05-26-2007, 02:22 PM
Major find, reinforces the old saying, "if you don't stop, you don't know", it's always a battle of time versus laziness on my part. This reminds me to stop.
TheGrooveking
MojoFilter
05-26-2007, 02:24 PM
Dude - tell us!! Please...:RoCkInWithout going into details:
1964 Blackface Fender Vibrolux Reverb in all-original condition for $50. Yes, that was $50, not $500. I'll start a thread about that when I take some pictures this week.
B Bent
05-26-2007, 02:44 PM
I'm jealous!!
cap job- do it first....before even powering it up...just the electrolyics- then sit back and smile
dewman's right....just the electrolytics
bluesjuke
05-26-2007, 04:57 PM
Ya'll are a bunch of amp covetors!!!!
I believe I was the first jealous one so get in line!
Mikey01
05-26-2007, 07:43 PM
Congrats! I have a band member, here in Cincy, that has had his Princeton Reverb silver face since new. He never plays it but does play others. He treats it like a shrine. It has never been redone and therefore is as new. The grill cloth has not even yellowed.
Not to steal your thunder but here is one of mine reprinted from another thread:
"64" Epiphone solid body. A Corina maybe?? It was neck-thru glued w/one single coil. It came with the tube amp, w/10" speaker and 15 watts, as a package deal at the time. I bought both as an elderly Grandma was clearing it out of the closet. She said that they had bought it new and the son played it for two months and lost interest. It sat in the closet ever since. I paid her the asking price of $265.00 in 1999. I sold the guitar in 2003 (as new condition w/not a mark on anything) for $995 and the amp (same person and condition) for $500. Iv'e been cryin ever since. It weighed next to nothing with increditably close action. The guitar played itself. Im sooo stupid sometimes.
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/images/misc/progress.gif http://www.thegearpage.net/board/images/buttons/edit.gif (http://www.thegearpage.net/board/editpost.php?do=editpost&p=2526588)
cottoneyedjoe
05-26-2007, 07:50 PM
Good score...
I have a buddy that does auctions. He got a call from a lady whose husband had passed. She wanted to sell one of his dobros. It turned out to be a 1929 National Tricone with the square neck.
He didn't know what he had.... He paid $250 for it. It is worth close to 10k!
That stuff always amazes me...
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