Yard sail find of the week!

[donald stringer]

 Boss DR. Rhythm Graphic  DR-10  5.00$ works great

[JKowalski]

I got a "California Blonde" acoustic amplifier in perfectly new condition at a local thrift store (savers) for $20. Worth $700 new.

From the same store, I also got a perfectly functional Fender '85 combo amp for $15

[liddokun]

you guys make me so jealous.

[Cliff Schecht]

Goodwill Blue Hangar in Austin!! I'm pretty sure I mentioned this before, but I got a Furman Compressor, DOD dual 15-band EQ and an MXR digital rack delay for $5 a unit, all in working condition. That's the tip of the iceberg though, my dad is a huge Goodwill shopper and brings home empty wah shells and old broken effects all the time. He finds some really useful stuff sometimes though, like professional mic stands and long XLR to XLR cables.

[tiges_ tendres]

I got a "California Blonde" acoustic amplifier in perfectly new condition at a local thrift store (savers) for $20. Worth $700 new.

From the same store, I also got a perfectly functional Fender '85 combo amp for $15

Savers is one of my favourite stops.  I picked up a Korg Electribe for $9.  You're not in the bay area are you?

I found a dreadnaught sized acoustic in the trash yesterday on my way to work.  $8 later, I have an awesome acoustic!

[kierc]

I wish the UK had "thrift" stores likes your's 

[Radamus]

I once got one of those electronic kits... you know, the ones where you snap the pieces together to make the fan move... I'm not jealous...

[anchovie]

I wish the UK had "thrift" stores likes your's 

I wish that too. Even the charity shops are wise to anything that looks valuable and will stick it on Ebay rather than selling it for a few quid to somebody local.

[JKowalski]

I got a "California Blonde" acoustic amplifier in perfectly new condition at a local thrift store (savers) for $20. Worth $700 new.

From the same store, I also got a perfectly functional Fender '85 combo amp for $15

Savers is one of my favourite stops.  I picked up a Korg Electribe for $9.  You're not in the bay area are you?

I found a dreadnaught sized acoustic in the trash yesterday on my way to work.  $8 later, I have an awesome acoustic!

Phoenix.  

I also forgot to mention, I found a wonderful 50's/60's all tube organ at savers as well for $25. It sounds pretty nice.

Has anyone ever looked in the back of those tube organs!!?? They are insane! There's quite literally 30-40 tubes inside of them! I wish I took a picture of it when I opened it up to show you guys. Sadly, my brother has taken it to his new house in Tuscon. A great source of parts, thats for sure. 90% of the tubes in mine were 12AU7's, a couple 12AX7's, a regulator, and an array of power tubes I can't recall right now. Also, like 20 total transformers. And a leslie assembly.

I'm hoping to find another one so I can salvage the parts and create a stand alone leslie cab...

[StephenGiles]

In 1988, I bought  2 EH Spacedrums for £2 each, got them working and sold them for £100 each!

[Cliff Schecht]

I got a "California Blonde" acoustic amplifier in perfectly new condition at a local thrift store (savers) for $20. Worth $700 new.

From the same store, I also got a perfectly functional Fender '85 combo amp for $15

Savers is one of my favourite stops.  I picked up a Korg Electribe for $9.  You're not in the bay area are you?

I found a dreadnaught sized acoustic in the trash yesterday on my way to work.  $8 later, I have an awesome acoustic!

Whoa! I paid a friend $250 for mine and had to completely disassemble it to clean out the sticky digipots and pushbuttons. Since then, it's works like a charm and sounds great (although a roommate recently spilled something else on it ). I have a lot of fun playing on the Electribe though, very fun toy!

[tiges_ tendres]

I got a "California Blonde" acoustic amplifier in perfectly new condition at a local thrift store (savers) for $20. Worth $700 new.

From the same store, I also got a perfectly functional Fender '85 combo amp for $15

Savers is one of my favourite stops.  I picked up a Korg Electribe for $9.  You're not in the bay area are you?

I found a dreadnaught sized acoustic in the trash yesterday on my way to work.  $8 later, I have an awesome acoustic!

Whoa! I paid a friend $250 for mine and had to completely disassemble it to clean out the sticky digipots and pushbuttons. Since then, it's works like a charm and sounds great (although a roommate recently spilled something else on it ). I have a lot of fun playing on the Electribe though, very fun toy!

I'll sell you mine for $249!    It's a great deal!

[Radamus]

Phoenix.  

I also forgot to mention, I found a wonderful 50's/60's all tube organ at savers as well for $25. It sounds pretty nice.

Has anyone ever looked in the back of those tube organs!!?? They are insane! There's quite literally 30-40 tubes inside of them! I wish I took a picture of it when I opened it up to show you guys. Sadly, my brother has taken it to his new house in Tuscon. A great source of parts, thats for sure. 90% of the tubes in mine were 12AU7's, a couple 12AX7's, a regulator, and an array of power tubes I can't recall right now. Also, like 20 total transformers. And a leslie assembly.

I'm hoping to find another one so I can salvage the parts and create a stand alone leslie cab...

I'm in Phoenix, too. If you don't mind sharing, what's your favorite place for finding these things? I like the savers on 56th street a lot.

[JKowalski]

Phoenix.  

I also forgot to mention, I found a wonderful 50's/60's all tube organ at savers as well for $25. It sounds pretty nice.

Has anyone ever looked in the back of those tube organs!!?? They are insane! There's quite literally 30-40 tubes inside of them! I wish I took a picture of it when I opened it up to show you guys. Sadly, my brother has taken it to his new house in Tuscon. A great source of parts, thats for sure. 90% of the tubes in mine were 12AU7's, a couple 12AX7's, a regulator, and an array of power tubes I can't recall right now. Also, like 20 total transformers. And a leslie assembly.

I'm hoping to find another one so I can salvage the parts and create a stand alone leslie cab...

I'm in Phoenix, too. If you don't mind sharing, what's your favorite place for finding these things? I like the savers on 56th street a lot.

I kind of find them scattered everywhere. Goodwill is typically my source for interesting electronic/audio equipment - however, I will randomly find amps (and amps only) at savers. I got them at two different locations, I forgot which.



Well, the reason I updated this topic was because of a good run a few days back:

- Went to a savers and found a 1959 Magnavox portable record player (in a suitcase!) for 5 bucks - the cool thing about it is that it has a 65 watt tube two channel amplifier in it!!!!! And it works perfectly fine - the output tubes have been replaced (now RCA instead of magnavox) but the preamp tubes are still magnavox - and they are still in perfect condition! It sounds excellent, I plan on using this for my leslie project I am working on (with some heavy modification, obviously).

Then, stopped by goodwill and found two things:

- A 100 watt radioshack brand PA amplifier, for 10 bucks (its actually pretty well made, don't let the brand fool ya)

- And - pretty awesome - another tube 60's organ. It has 54 tubes inside, most in fairly good or excellent condition, a humongous power transformer, and two 15"? speakers, which also look (and sound) like they have withstood the test of time. And guess how much money? $0.80. It's absolutely excellent, because I was wanting to build a high power tube guitar amplifier, and this puts me off the an excellent start - not to mention the ridiculous amount of money I just saved on my parts!! 

[Paul Marossy]

About the only thing I ever find at a thrift store is various wall warts for like 50 cents each. 

Yard sales here generally suck, it's usually just a bunch of crap that thrift stores wouldn't even really want. Although, down the street from me, we did actually recently see a decent yard sale for a change. If I needed a wireless lapel mic, I would have scored. 

[Cardboard Tube Samurai]

I bought a late 70's EHX Small Stone the other day for $25. Pretty happy with that really

[zombiwoof]

I got a "California Blonde" acoustic amplifier in perfectly new condition at a local thrift store (savers) for $20. Worth $700 new.

From the same store, I also got a perfectly functional Fender '85 combo amp for $15

Savers is one of my favourite stops.  I picked up a Korg Electribe for $9.  You're not in the bay area are you?

I found a dreadnaught sized acoustic in the trash yesterday on my way to work.  $8 later, I have an awesome acoustic!

Phoenix. 

I also forgot to mention, I found a wonderful 50's/60's all tube organ at savers as well for $25. It sounds pretty nice.

Has anyone ever looked in the back of those tube organs!!?? They are insane! There's quite literally 30-40 tubes inside of them! I wish I took a picture of it when I opened it up to show you guys. Sadly, my brother has taken it to his new house in Tuscon. A great source of parts, thats for sure. 90% of the tubes in mine were 12AU7's, a couple 12AX7's, a regulator, and an array of power tubes I can't recall right now. Also, like 20 total transformers. And a leslie assembly.

I'm hoping to find another one so I can salvage the parts and create a stand alone leslie cab...

Cool finds!  I used to live in Phoenix, and I was never hip to these thrift stores for stuff like that.

What I suggest if you want to keep the organ in playing condition is to see what vintage tubes are in it that would be good in guitar amps, and replace them with new manufacture tubes, keep the vintage stuff for your amps!  Best of both worlds, the organ will work fine with the cheap tubes and you'll have a stash of good vintage stuff.

Al

[wavley]

My best yard sale finds are: 69 Vibrolux $40, 65 Mustang $75, Showman 2x12 $15, 101 Space Echo $50, Earth Super guitar stack $50, and a racked pair of Neumann v476b's $50

Needless to say... I LOVE YARD SALES!!

[Renegadrian]

I wish the UK had "thrift" stores likes your's 

I wish Italy had pawn shops...

[GREEN FUZ]

Not bargain of the century but I picked up a Boss DM-3 for £30 the other day. And a Hornsea Muramic pottery wall plaque ( don`t ask) for a quid.