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Today was the first day of the local flea market and garage sale.
Musical found stuff:
- Capos – someone had a bunch of oooold brass Shubbs for sale for $3/each. I bought a bunch to spread among the guitar cases, never to be without capo again!
- Martin D with Formica body – they were trying to sell it as a D-18. Umm, no….had a Stratobond neck, didn’t know they came on those. Almost bought it for the neck alone; those things are tough and would be worth using on a knockaround guitar made of wood.
- Fenler (NOT Fender) 4 x 5881 amp (made in Vietnam to sell to serve people during the VN war; the logo is v close to a Fender). All point to point and well made, has the angled face and shell of one of the late-60s solid-state Zodiac-era Fender. Might go back tomorrow and get it if it’s still there. It needs some work (humming by bad filter caps, power tube replacement, wildly variant set of inputs with different resistor values on all of them, other weird stuff), but the breakup happens about 3.on the volume and it’s surprisingly tasty through the cheap-ass Silvertone speaker they had it plugged into. It looks like someone copied either a Bassman or Dual Showman but used 5881s rather than 6L6GCs, which kinda explains the early breakup. I mean, everyone needs a four-power-tube amp, right? BC I clearly have unlikmited storage space…
- A real old National, single cone. They’re asking real money for it, and aside from needing a neck reset, it’s in good nick and is great for slide. I don’t need a metal guitar, esp not one that costs that much….that’s what I keep telling myself.
- An old Teisco-Danelectro-Ekko-something from the late fifties, great sunburst. The saddle is a piece of threaded rod at an angle so you can adjust your string spacing on the fly….clearly a feature Fender should have copied 😀
Didn’t manage to sell any of the power tools I had for sale, alas, as they might fund new flea market finds.
Hoping to find weirder stuff tomorrow.
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$4200 and it plays up to maybe the fifth fret; after that, all slide. Needs a full-stick neck reset (as is common with old Nationals). Don’t think it had a truss rod. Neck bow wasn’t awful but it might need a plane and refret after a reset to get it up to snuff.
Owner wouldn’t budge on the price – “I know what I have and I can wait for a buyer.”
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