Had a great day at the Bootsale yesterday!!

[johnbaz]

Hi all

some of the stuff I found at my local bootsale

Gorgeous Vintage Les Paul style guitar- cleaned up lovely and plays dead creamy

Bargain at £15!! :Wow:

BSA Scorpion in .22....

Nice Armani watch, fantastic quality case/bracelet

Needs a clean and a battery, a 616 instead of the dead common 626 (have hundreds of them but not one 616- typical!)

Three little axes, only paid a couple of quid each!!

Enjoyed my morning out


John

 

[ozzy1977]

Cracking score

 

[Samon]

Jammy rotter!

Some people have no idea how much their unwanted goods are worth to us wombles..!

 

[wigs55]

Axes look a real bargain.

 

[johnbaz]

Here's some more axes that I bought a few years ago too!!

L to R-

Plumbs US 1942 (military axe I was told)..
Speare & Jackson made here in Sheffield!
Swift (also made here in Sheff!!)
Kent pattern, not sure where it was made

A few more bootsale bargains had over the years!!

Herbertz Boot knife??

I paid £25 for this home made guitar but it came in a fab Selmer croc hardcase!!

£25 paid for this Marshall DSL401 combo though it needs to go in as the valves are burnt and need replacing/biasing, still a heck of a bargain as these are still being made and cost £600 :yikes:

Harmony Sovereign- a good blues-y acoustic for £14! the bloke in front of me wouldn't buy it because the seller wouldn't knock him a quid off!

1960 Hofner President with after market Framus pickup fitted, paid £30 for this and really felt like I stole it!!

I've had all manner of tools, knives, lanterns, SLR Cameras etc over the years from the bootsales but will be needing a bigger house eoon as it's filling up at a steady rate!!


Cheers, John

 

[Samon]

Lol.. Wow.

Some people amaze me!

How does the scorpion shoot??

 

[swotty]

Blimey.....far better carboots up there! All the ones I go to seem to have complete and utter carp for sale

Although I did get a Burco blowtorch for a tenner the other week

Love the Horned and the Marshall amp!

 

[johnbaz]

Lol.. Wow.

Some people amaze me!

How does the scorpion shoot??

Hi Samon

We have some great bootsales around Sheffield, had literally thousands of good finds over the years

Blimey.....far better carboots up there! All the ones I go to seem to have complete and utter carp for sale

Although I did get a Burco blowtorch for a tenner the other week

Love the Horned and the Marshall amp!

Hi Swotty

The Blowtorch sounds great mate

Not sure what the 'Horned' is (Typo??) (EDIT- unless you mean the white guitar with the two 'horns' )



Cheers, John

 

[swotty]

Hi Samon

We have some great bootsales around Sheffield, had literally thousands of good finds over the years



Hi Swotty

The Blowtorch sounds great mate

Not sure what the 'Horned' is (Typo??) (EDIT- unless you mean the white guitar with the two 'horns' )



Cheers, John

Ah! Spellcheck! Horned should have read 'Hofner'

 

[johnbaz]

Ah! Spellcheck! Horned should have read 'Hofner'

Oooof!!!

Had it turned off on my phone as it was a nuisance!!



Cheers, John

 

[Tank]

Harmony Sovereign- a good blues-y acoustic for £14! the bloke in front of me wouldn't buy it because the seller wouldn't knock him a quid off!

1960 Hofner President with after market Framus pickup fitted, paid £30 for this and really felt like I stole it!!

Very nice, i would have taken the guys arm off at them prices!

 

[Nohoval_Turrets]

Gorgeous Vintage Les Paul style guitar- cleaned up lovely and plays dead creamy

Bargain at £15!! :Wow:

I'm looking for a 1954 Gibson ES-175 with a blonde finish. If you could pick one up for half nothing and send it on, that would be super. Ta.

 

[Clouston98]

Some cracking finds there, some great little axes!

The car boots up,our way are usually full of tat, it's rare to find something nice- yours looks to be a good one!

 

[johnbaz]

Hi all

I bought a cell for the watch, it was a pretty rarely used 616 cell rather than the 'common as muck' 626!!

I polished the case and bracelet with my Dremel and it came up a treat!!

I'm going to have top remove the movement to clean the dial and inside of the crystal as there's some lint inside The case back wasn't fitted correctly when I bought the watch so it could have been stood for ages letting the muck in!!

The watch is keeping excellent time so it doesn't seem to have penetrated the movement!!


Cheers, John

 

[Tengu]

Your beating me, I see

all I found today was 3 small plastic containers, some sealant and a can of PVA glue....

 

[johnbaz]

Your beating me, I see

all I found today was 3 small plastic containers, some sealant and a can of PVA glue....

Didn't have a great day this week

Only managed an air pistol (Bugger had done his homework and knew roughly what to ask for it )

It's a Walther LP2 match pistol, shoots very well but the barrel release lever has be broken, it can still be used though!!

Also bought a Guitar effects pedal, an overdrive unit called 'Big Muff' :yelrotflm

Couldn't believe that when I plugged it in, it actually worked!! for my 50p I get a very overdriven sound plus endless sustain!!!


That was all I managed

BTW, The3 pistol takes my tally back up to 117 mixed pistols and rifles!!!

John

 

[Wiseman]

50p for the Big Muff is great - they are pretty sort after!

 

[nephilim]

Think I need to start hitting car boot sales!