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mica

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Some Things I Found When We Moved
« on: March 28, 2020, 05:52:31 PM »
OK, so some of the stuff I show on this thread I knew we had. I might not have known where all of it was, and there were a few hidden treasures for sure. Some things I'll be putting in our store, some I'll just share pictures of.

The first stuff I'm going to share are old brochures. If you know us, you know we are good at saving everything. I have a couple hundred or so sets of these brochures: 2000 bass, 1989 basses and guitars, 1980s basses and guitars, 1997 Rackmount. I'll get some better images when I put them in the webstore (prob ~30 bucks), but for now you'll know they will be available shortly.
I've got piles of used bass and guitar electronics to sort through, a variety of backplates in various conditions, and a bunch of other stuff for people that like to do restorations and their own builds. I'll add these as I get the time to paw through them.

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2020, 05:58:46 PM »
Cool!   I’ve often said one never realizes how much one accumulates until it all has to be moved!   Looking forward to seeing the new old stuff.

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2020, 06:32:31 PM »
Very exciting...I'll stay tuned in  :D

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2020, 11:51:33 PM »
Ooh! There are some random electronics I could use.

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2020, 11:58:21 PM »
Ooooh.  Random Electronics.  As in random pickups and wiring harnesses and pots?

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2020, 05:21:59 AM »
I look forward  to the various items of electronics , hardware and other items to be revealed :)

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2020, 10:05:10 AM »
Must have been fun looking through everything, a time capsule.  Any interesting artwork or long-forgotten designs? :)

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2020, 10:46:03 AM »
I am still looking for some old style Molex pickup connectors!

mica

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2020, 11:13:29 AM »
I am still looking for some old style Molex pickup connectors!
Molex hasn't changed anything except the color. If you mean the coaxial connectors, we still have those for restoration projects and we make adapters to go either from Molex to coaxial or vice versa.

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2020, 11:28:13 AM »
What about some of those Kit guitars you did a while back. Did you find any more of those gems in the move?
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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2020, 11:31:53 AM »
Or maybe an old Spyder for JE that never got finished?!

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2020, 12:22:51 PM »
Must have been fun looking through everything, a time capsule.  Any interesting artwork or long-forgotten designs? :)

It was fun, I just wish I had a little more time while I was handling everything. Lots of scans i wish I could have made, but that's a project for another day. Not really found, but revisited many abandoned projects - some I may wind up offering for adoption to finish up, others I don't have any idea why we kept them!

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2020, 12:23:28 PM »
What about some of those Kit guitars you did a while back. Did you find any more of those gems in the move?

Didn't find any more, but there's still 6 or 7 bodies I believe.

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2020, 12:26:14 PM »
Ooooh.  Random Electronics.  As in random pickups and wiring harnesses and pots?

Yeah. Like random Activator parts from test projects, but I don't need to keep 25 of one thing for future testing. Some are truly used parts, where we may have done a rare warranty exchange, then later repaired the original, and what do we need with a used harness?

In the pickups area, there's a few really weird ones, like some clown-vomit splash type in cream, red, and black. No trapezoids, the few I have are reserved for the archives.

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Re: Some Things I Found When We Moved
« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2020, 12:26:55 PM »
Or maybe an old Spyder for JE that never got finished?!

None of those - we finished every order we got from him.