Yard sail find of the week!

Br4d13y · July 25, 2009, 12:50:58 PM

picked up an epiphone beast(http://media.photobucket.com/image/epiphone%20beast/sam_the_man106/Image017.jpg)

50 bucks, and the pickups are amazing! the neck sounds better than the neck in my 89 sg custom

Paul Marossy · July 25, 2009, 03:54:28 PM

Quote from: Br4d13y on July 25, 2009, 12:50:58 PM
picked up an epiphone beast(http://media.photobucket.com/image/epiphone%20beast/sam_the_man106/Image017.jpg)

50 bucks, and the pickups are amazing! the neck sounds better than the neck in my 89 sg custom

Wow, you guys have good yard sales where y'all live. That's a good deal, can't beat that.

oliphaunt · July 25, 2009, 04:35:30 PM

I bought 2 Mellotron M400s for $250 once.

Taylor · July 25, 2009, 11:01:58 PM

Quote from: oliphaunt on July 25, 2009, 04:35:30 PM
I bought 2 Mellotron M400s for $250 once.

Ok, I've been reading this thread with moderate jealousy up until now, but you sir: I hate you!

But actually I really do hate you.

panterafanatic · July 25, 2009, 11:10:58 PM

this isn't a yard sale.. but on ebay i got a sansamp GT-2 for 65 today.. we dont really have much yard sales around here.

gigimarga · July 26, 2009, 01:45:22 AM

Quote from: panterafanatic on July 25, 2009, 11:10:58 PM
.. we dont really have much yard sales around here.

we don't have any sales yard here

...anyway, yesterday I had a lot of luck and I bought a perfect functioning fuzz-wah Jen Double Sound at 30$...

snufkin · July 26, 2009, 04:23:33 AM

I Have had quite a few good scores in the uk

a boss digital delay sampling rack and psu for £15
3 boss fs-u5 footswitches for £5
casio sk-1 £3
casiotone-201 £2
boss dm-2 £50
free bolt neck les paul copy found lying in the street
korg ms10 with a roland tr606 for £180 (combined worth about £600)

and every week I see an effects pedal or a few small 70s transistor amps for sale cheep

these are the ones I can remember

doitle · July 26, 2009, 04:28:16 AM

Quote from: Br4d13y on July 25, 2009, 12:50:58 PM
picked up an epiphone beast(http://media.photobucket.com/image/epiphone%20beast/sam_the_man106/Image017.jpg)

50 bucks, and the pickups are amazing! the neck sounds better than the neck in my 89 sg custom

That would have been the find of the century for me... I love the Explorer and am trying to raise money to buy an Epiphone Les Paul Plus Top... This would have totally fit the bill. I want a Gibson/Epiphone now because most of what I play is Classic/Hard Rock and my Ibanez... It just doesn't seem to quite do it. It feels... dis genuine somehow. Also the flat neck hurts my fingers...

Renegadrian · July 26, 2009, 06:10:31 PM

Lil OT - I personally dislike ibane$!!! Sell that piece of scrapwood and go ebaying for an ol' american Kramer (I have some and they were the best...) - there were other good brands, but ibbies...well...Maybe until the first 90s...

newfish · July 27, 2009, 05:17:28 AM

+ 1 on the Ibanez. Sold my RG450 LTD for a Telecaster and haven't looked back.

My thumb used to really ache after a couple of hours playing - now it's just my ears!

Picked up an old Arion SDA-1 (I think) - an early digital sampler / delay. It ate batteries, but was a lot of fun.

Found it in a local music shop and paid less than 20 quid for it. The guy in the shop didn't know what he had.

Same with a PRS Santana SE I found for 90 pounds in a 'Cash Converters' store near work. This thing was immaculate.

Thomeeque · July 27, 2009, 07:00:50 AM

Really pleasant surprise few years ago when diggin' in old-crap-"all for 30CZK*"-box in one local HW bazaar

It's 100% functional and turned to be very handy (it's bit slow /up to few kHz signals/, but it has 12-bit precission and very good SW downloadable for free, it's even supported by some LAB soft, LabVIEW namely).

T.

*around 2USD

Thomeeque · July 27, 2009, 08:33:17 AM

Quote from: Taylor on July 25, 2009, 11:01:58 PM
Quote from: oliphaunt on July 25, 2009, 04:35:30 PM
I bought 2 Mellotron M400s for $250 once.

Ok, I've been reading this thread with moderate jealousy up until now, but you sir: I hate you!

But actually I really do hate you.

Don't be jealous, build yours, it's easy!

T.

12milluz · July 30, 2009, 04:28:35 PM

Today I found a MIDI keyboard and Cakewalk 3 Home Studio for $10!

Plus, I got a TI-83 graphing calculator for $20!

JasonG · July 30, 2009, 05:16:51 PM

Ok
Last week I got an entry level tube tester for 20 an ok find.
Today I picked up a bunch of stuff another electronics junky was throwing out and got a free reverb pan, some motors for a pickup winder and some small tube radios for free!
I have done better in the past but the timing is perfect for the free stuff.

Gregory Kollins · July 30, 2009, 06:14:35 PM

I got an Epiphone Firebird VII in unplayed condition at a pawn shop for $200. It has replaced my Gibson LP studio as my primary guitar.

I got an excellent dual channel sony stereo amp for free.

I got an Aria electric that plays great and looks really funky from goodwill for $25.

And I got a orange and brown plad suit from goodwill for $4.50

Paul Marossy · July 30, 2009, 08:00:05 PM

Quote from: Gregory Kollins on July 30, 2009, 06:14:35 PM
I got an Epiphone Firebird VII in unplayed condition at a pawn shop for $200. It has replaced my Gibson LP studio as my primary guitar.

I got an excellent dual channel sony stereo amp for free.

I got an Aria electric that plays great and looks really funky from goodwill for $25.

And I got a orange and brown plad suit from goodwill for $4.50

That's a cool deal. The pawn shops here where I live are ridiculous. I have seen crappy guitars hanging in the pawn shop with a price tag higher than the things would have cost new.

It sucks here for yard sales and pawn shops.

edvard · July 30, 2009, 09:15:37 PM

Went to visit the in-laws this weekend and some guy had some boxes of free stuff on the corner.
Looked inside and saw 4 gigantic bags of old-school capacitors (the kind that were dipped in wax) and 50 or so odd-looking potentiometers.
Some of them probably cathode bias pots (2 inches around, no shaft, just a screwdriver slot) and a few big rheostats to boot.
also a handful of odd tubes that are look used or bad. Haven't tested them yet.

Not bad for free!

donald stringer · July 30, 2009, 09:19:28 PM

Hey gregory ,I am partial to arias could you post a picture of that aria.

JKowalski · October 20, 2009, 09:02:50 PM

I had to resurrect this topic because I had a killer craigslist find the other day:

A Hammmond M-3 with a Leslie cab...

Guess how much...

FREE!

The people we got it from recently took it off their grandparents, who moved to another state, and they had no idea what to do with it. They tried hooking it up but it didn't work, even though it apparently worked at their grandparents house just before they moved states. So I am taking a look, seems like it might be a simple power amp problem, cause the motor system works beautifully! Haven't tried the leslie cab yet, they couldn't find the hammond->leslie cable to give to me.

So. Psyched. OMG.

I also had some fun cause I have always wanted to see the hammond motor system in action. Such a neat device.

pazuzu · October 20, 2009, 09:10:52 PM

my friend gave me a dbx dual comp gate rack unit for a 12 pack of beer. i had been using it for a long time and i said "what do you want for that?" he told me to buy the case of beer for the jam session that night and split it with him.

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