What's been your best antique,thrift,pawn find this year?

[BrianWitty]

Mine was a 1959 hi-fi console with telefunken el84s and a 1959 concert Jensen 15" speaker for $35 at an antique store. I didn't know it had the telefunkens or the 15 - until I pulled off the back- I just knew it sounded great and I hook up my old marantz turntable to it and get some great sounds. I figured $35..... What the heck...

[sepulchre]

Okay, where do you find a place where they don't think anything old and dusty is worth $1000?

[BrianWitty]

This was in my own backyard. Bowling green KY... Is was an antique shop that had a guy that was a self proclaimed "audiophile" and the upstairs was nothing but stereo equipment he'd set up from the 80s,90s,and 00s. This particular item was downstairs with a sign that said "Works 39.95" I told him I'd do $35 (was all I was carrying) and take it then- he was surprised I was even interested..

I pulled the telefunkens replaced em with new jj's and guess where the TF tubes went....

[sepulchre]

Nice find indeed! Telefunkens, no less.

[Structo]

I don't even bother with the pawn shops anymore.

Ever since ebay they inflate the values so there is no good deal.

Except, you see the same dusty shit every time you go in.

Several years ago I was looking at a Bassman Ten 4x10 combo.

They wanted $500 for it.
When I asked if I could try it out the guy said it was being sold as is and no, I could not play through it.

I muttered, good luck on the way out the door.

It was still sitting there six months later.....

[67plexi]

I scored a pair of Fender1966 Twin reverb amps mint.

$400.00 each sold for $4000.00 each. Back in 2007.

The best score was a Moonstone Guitar for $85.00 made in 1976.

[NickC]

Gibson EBO bass (cherry finish) with a sheared off headstock for $35. Repaired and traded for a new Ampeg V4 4x10 cabinet.

[DonMoose]

In the last 3 years:

Audrey's Place on 10th in Indy:
1960 Bell (TRW) HiFi Stereo with Garrard Turntable and Jensen 3-ways with 12" woofers (need reconed) $20 - 2 pairs of 6V6 outputs. Connected to Roku M1001 audio thing. Main stereo
1962 Zenith HiFi Console $35 - EL-84 outputs - another Roku. Dining room stereo.

Joseph's Pawn, 38th@Illinois in Indy:
Mark III Green Stripe RM head, slightly broken $200 - sold $650

Indy Pawn, Pendleton Pike, Indy:
Yamaha T100C, slightly broken $90 - sold $450

Cash America - 3 locations, Indy
Hartke bass amp $90
Squier Strat $60
several iPod Classic 160GBs - $75 to $125 - I keep killing them
MacBook 13" $400
Asus/Win7 laptop $200
Acer/Win7 laptop $200

Woodruff Place Garage Sale (East of downtown Indy, 1st June weekend, 6 blocks, 2 days):
Yamaha T50 head + double TL604 $60
too much other stuff to list

If you know what you're looking for, and know what you're looking at, and make regular stops to watch how long stuff's been out, you can find deals.

College towns are also especially good as you get toward holidays, spring break and garaduation.

[Buschman]

http://ampgarage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22072

[vibratoking]

1977 Fender Strat free...sort of...I noticed it hanging in the pawn shop. It was stolen from me several years earlier. Called the police and got it back.

Early 80s TC Electronic SCF - $25...still have it.

[Jerry2013]

nothing really stands out.

[skyboltone]

A working Amprobe 500V megger for $25. Needed leads.

[jeff12]

I have to say mine was a " Finder Pre ABC Bass guitar with case".
$500 Sunburst, with no modifications. And yes that is what the tag said.

[sepulchre]

So, Don . . . Hoosier Cash, eh? Nice hunting! Guess I need to get down to Indy more often.

[mhartman]

Broken 1965 Showman for $300 and 30 minutes of my time to fix. Now she sounds great and I'm debating whether to keep or sell.