Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[AtomicEraTom]

Oh, it was rusty.

Been working on cleaning up the sign. Thinking about putting LED's in it (not gutting out the Flourescents and the ballasts, of course.) Just wanna run it on the cheap.

Rough?! Over there that means rust bucket. :eeek:



That must be some pretty bad champagne. :doh:

 

[jamespowers]

Oh, it was rusty.

Been working on cleaning up the sign. Thinking about putting LED's in it (not gutting out the Flourescents and the ballasts, of course.) Just wanna run it on the cheap.

Geez! Use it the way it was meant to be used. Don't be overly tight man! :doh: For goodness sake they are already cheap enough being fluorescents.

When I turn all of mine on, It is like the sun.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I think it's creative and good for resale. I've had a couple people interested in buying it already and I had no intention of selling it haha.

Geez! Use it the way it was meant to be used. Don't be overly tight man! :doh: For goodness sake they are already cheap enough being fluorescents.

When I turn all of mine on, It is like the sun.

 

[jamespowers]

I think it's creative and good for resale. I've had a couple people interested in buying it already and I had no intention of selling it haha.

Creative is for hippies.
They want it the way it is----not with hippie modifications.

 

[Jaxworx]

Just a small, somewhat bittersweet item. My buddy's dad passed on a few months ago. While cleaning out the house, we ran across this hat rack:



It's bent brass tubing and turned hardwood ends; very simple. Buddy doesn't wear anything on his kopf but ball caps and motorcycle helmets, so he passed it along to me.

This hangs near our front door now. He visits quite often.

Cheers,

Jack

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Not much of a modification. No drilling no rewiring, or anything. If they don't like it, they can just take it out.

Creative is for hippies.
They want it the way it is----not with hippie modifications.

 

[jamespowers]

Not much of a modification. No drilling no rewiring, or anything. If they don't like it, they can just take it out.

And throw the hippie crap away.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I don't like it anymore than you do, but I gotta do what the landlord says I gotta do. "Old things are expensive to power and are fire hazards" I hear it all the time.

And throw the hippie crap away.

 

[jamespowers]

I don't like it anymore than you do, but I gotta do what the landlord says I gotta do. "Old things are expensive to power and are fire hazards" I hear it all the time.

You know of course that they are neither. lol lol
Modern things have many more functions and whizz bang which equals more power to run. It also means there is more to go wrong and make a bigger fire.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

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[Stearmen]

Creative is for hippies.
They want it the way it is----not with hippie modifications.

Hippies never modify anything, if they did, they might work up a sweat, and then they would have to bathe!

 

[jamespowers]

Hippies never modify anything, if they did, they might work up a sweat, and then they would have to bathe!

Bathe?! Not even then. They modify dope.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Side 2 was the bigger project, mostly cleaned up, now.

 

[esteban68]

that's looking rather good Tom...good job!

Here's a nice little find I got on Satrurday along with two pair of early 20th century gloves;

It has some crazing but no chips and as it's going to be used I am ok with that!

 

[esteban68]

The gloves, sadly too small(size 8-they fit the wife!) but I had to save these;

The cream ones I think are early mid century c 1940's/50's?

These I think are much earlier, I have never seen this type of brass button on gloves before and the quality of the very supple leather and stitching is outstanding, how I wish they fit me!!!

 

[esteban68]

a couple of detail shots;

 

[jamespowers]

a couple of detail shots;

Nice finds there. What is that cup used for?

 

[esteban68]

It's a shaving mug JP!

 

[jamespowers]

It's a shaving mug JP!

Ah! Makes sense now. lol lol Obviously I don't use one.

 

[esteban68]

Well I sort of do.... goatee and I mainly use shaving stick because it's quicker ( though I tend to let it grow a bit all over in winter for the warmth!)but I liked the fairly rare advertising for TWA on this one.