Anyone have a crazy collection to share?

[chazmo]

Aside from guitar and amps... books and vinyl records are collections (or problems when moving!!!) Vinyl records are 700+ (all in boxes right now) Books are an unknown quantity. Books everywhere!

And my wife is an artist of many types and when I asked her just now what she collects her answer was: "Any item that doesn't rot"



This is a shot from the former apartment. Now that we are in house, the books are in bookcases or boxed out in the garage.

Books and vinyls! Yup, signs of generations who will not exist in the future.

 

[Harp Tail]

Books and vinyls! Yup, signs of generations who will not exist in the future.

I honestly believe the "books and vinyl" generations will be a resource for the ones that came after... if those will ever lift their eyes from their "smart" phones' screens...

 

[awagner]

I accumulated quite a collection of Haffenreffer bottle caps (with the rebus puzzles) in college. Probably still have them somewhere.

 

[chazmo]

I accumulated quite a collection of Haffenreffer bottle caps (with the rebus puzzles) in college. Probably still have them somewhere.

That I've gotta' see!!!!

 

[DougH]

Just met a USAFA graduate last night, I'm guessing graduated late 60's. Being a south shore boy, I know where Randolph is. But even better is like you said, "let's support a fantastic local manufacturing business". That's Great!



I worked on the Alaskan Pipeline 1976 to 1978. This very minute I'm going over my pictures as there 45+ years old, from film days and yellow. But with digital editing programs, they can look much better. I've been to 46 states.

I'm farthest to the right

Remember the Harbor Club? Played there in '78 with our band "Myrtle". What a circus was that place!

 

[chazmo]

I honestly believe the "books and vinyl" generations will be a resource for the ones that came after... if those will ever lift their eyes from their "smart" phones' screens...

Well, books have been around since history was invented, but whether people will have that urge to collect them in the future is hard for me to say. As for vinyl records, well, I would bet heavily against them being around 100 years from now.

 

[Harp Tail]

Well, books have been around since history was invented, but whether people will have that urge to collect them in the future is hard for me to say. As for vinyl records, well, I would bet heavily against them being around 100 years from now.

William Gates III collects ancient books and manuscripts - not microchips or hard drives

 

[GAD]

William Gates III collects ancient books and manuscripts - not microchips or hard drives

I collect books, manuscripts, microchips, and hard drives.

You might be surprised at the vintage computer collections some people have.

 

[GGJaguar]

That's weird.

I cannot disagree.

 

[Harp Tail]

I collect books, manuscripts, microchips, and hard drives.

You might be surprised at the vintage computer collections some people have.

I've heard of them, and always recommended my brother to hold on to his pre-historic Sinclair

 

[Nuuska]

I have been "collecting" Studer-ReVox tape machines and mixing consoles - but have come to my senses and am selling them - no nice collection pic's available - but in case any of you is interested in some particular article - and if I have one - I'll take the pic and send.

But to condence - I still have one of the very first Studer-built tape decks - T-26 w pre-Studer-name - and C278 - 1/2-inch 8-track deck.

After that Studer sold his company - and later products do no more qualify. Even though I have a fancy Studer 980 mixing console . . .

 

[AcornHouse]

Not really a crazy collection, but my father collected paperweights. I put them all up on a WordPress blog to sell, but haven't really done much to promote it.

Paperweights DMK

Paperweights from the collection of the late DMK.Fine Art & Vintage & Accessories

paperweightsdmk.wordpress.com

 

[walrus]

Not really a crazy collection, but my father collected paperweights. I put them all up on a WordPress blog to sell, but haven't really done much to promote it.

Paperweights DMK

Paperweights from the collection of the late DMK.Fine Art & Vintage & Accessories

paperweightsdmk.wordpress.com

Those are very nice! And another collection that brings back some memories...

 

[FNG]

I have all my baseball cards from when I was a kid. Loads of 1970 commons.

My buddy used to collect cards in the late '60s. You could write Topps, and they would send you a mimeographed price list. I think you could buy a mid-50s in the box complete set for 12-20 bucks. I remember my Mom saying no way are we spending that kind of money on baseball cards.

He also had every Beatles album every made, I think. He put them in storage, and they all were warped badly by heat.

 

[hansmoust]

There are a lot of things that I have collected and most of those are guitar related. That doesn't mean that I still have those collections, since my focus changes from time to time. Of the collections that I still have, my guitar literature collection, which includes books, catalogs, photos, ads and other paper stuff takes up most of the space.

However there are also things that I've collected that are not necessarily a collection. When I started doing repairs for a living it was my habit, after a re-fret job, to throw the old frets in a box that was under my workbench. It turned out that while working on older guitars it could happen that I would be in need of a certain fret type with a specific size for the restoration of an older guitar and quite often I could find a suitable piece in my 'obsolete frets' box; remember that when doing complete re-frets, half of the frets are still pretty good.

So after many years of doing repairs my 'obsolete frets' box is a big drawer now and from time to time I can still find 'the right piece' that I would not be able to find commercially.

Here's the drawer that would never be my choice for the 'drawer of the month' thread:

And here's a closer look:

Even though I realize that I will never have a use for these frets, I cannot get myself to throwing them in the waste bin!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[wileypickett]

I collect covers of the song "Telstar." The original Tornados' recording (written by the legendary Joe Meek) was a massive hit all over the world in 1962, top of the charts in many countries, and the first British record to be #1 in the States. (It was #1 in the States and the UK simultaneously.)

Versions have been recorded in practically every country in the world, in virtually every genre you can think of (I'm still looking for a steel band version -- I'm sure there must be one!), and new versions of the song have been recorded in every decade since the '60s.

Why that particular instrumental?

I first heard it while up in a willow tree that me and friends used to climb in a vacant lot down the block from where I lived in Bellevue, Nebraska. It was 1962; I was 9. Some older kids arrived with a transistor radio and this song came on. I was used to hearing songs like "Who Wears Short-Shorts?" on the teenage stations, and Sinatra and Nat King Cole on my dad's car radio. But I'd never heard anything like "Telstar."

I was spellbound, frozen in the branches. It was the sound of the future!



(I wasn't alone in responding this way -- read some of the comments in the above link.)

It would be a couple years before I learned the name of the song and who it was it by. Not sure when I started collecting covers but somehow I've amassed 500 +/- different versions, including ones where vocals were added (including in Spanish, Italian, French, German, Croation and others!).

In 2012 a friend invited me on her radio program, where I played two hours of covers from my collection in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Telstar and the song's release.

Laugh if you like but hey, it keeps me out of trouble!

 

[hansmoust]

Love the looks of that Framus Star Bass!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[chazmo]

There are a lot of things that I have collected and most of those are guitar related. That doesn't mean that I still have those collections, since my focus changes from time to time. Of the collections that I still have, my guitar literature collection, which includes books, catalogs, photos, ads and other paper stuff takes up most of the space.

However there are also things that I've collected that are not necessarily a collection. When I started doing repairs for a living it was my habit, after a re-fret job, to throw the old frets in a box that was under my workbench. It turned out that while working on older guitars it could happen that I would be in need of a certain fret type with a specific size for the restoration of an older guitar and quite often I could find a suitable piece in my 'obsolete frets' box; remember that when doing complete re-frets, half of the frets are still pretty good.

So after many years of doing repairs my 'obsolete frets' box is a big drawer now and from time to time I can still find 'the right piece' that I would not be able to find commercially.

Here's the drawer that would never be my choice for the 'drawer of the month' thread:

And here's a closer look:

Even though I realize that I will never have a use for these frets, I cannot get myself to throwing them in the waste bin!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

beyond awesome, Hans!

 

[wileypickett]

Love the looks of that Framus Star Bass!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

Yes, me too!

 

[chazmo]

I collect covers of the song "Telstar." The original Tornados' recording (written by the legendary Joe Meek) was a massive hit all over the world in 1962, top of the charts in many countries, and the first British record to be #1 in the States. (It was #1 in the States and the UK simultaneously.)

Versions have been recorded in practically every country in the world, in virtually every genre you can think of (I'm still looking for a steel band version -- I'm sure there must be one!), and new versions of the song have been recorded in every decade since the '60s.

Why that particular instrumental?

I first heard it while up in a willow tree that me and friends used to climb in a vacant lot down the block from where I lived in Bellevue, Nebraska. It was 1962; I was 9. Some older kids arrived with a transistor radio and this song came on. I was used to hearing songs like "Who Wears Short-Shorts?" on the teenage stations, and Sinatra and Nat King Cole on my dad's car radio. But I'd never heard anything like "Telstar."

I was spellbound, frozen in the branches. It was the sound of the future!



(I wasn't alone in responding this way -- read some of the comments in the above link.)

It would be a couple years before I learned the name of the song and who it was it by. Not sure when I started collecting covers but somehow I've amassed 500 +/- different versions, including ones where vocals were added (including in Spanish, Italian, French, German, Croation and others!).

In 2012 a friend invited me on her radio program, where I played two hours of covers from my collection in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Telstar and the song's release.

Laugh if you like but hey, it keeps me out of trouble!

Glenn, that's wild! I don't think I've ever heard Telstar before, but that is really cool. Do you know what the keyboard is in The Tornadoes' version? Is it a Moog? I don't know what instruments were available to folks in 1962. That seems very early to me for performance synthesizers.