Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Jeff Scott]

Well, we did do a bit of aunt-eeking today. Pretty good haul this afternoon. TSO got herself a very nice reversible silk Chinese jacket, and a vintage heat register grate that will be going into the master bedroom to replace the flimsy one there now that we doubt is original to the house, anyway.

I picked up a couple of Rookwood vases, a 2479 in a greenish-tan glaze from (19)XIX, the other a Madder Wine Cattails 2592 in a blue-green glaze from (19)XLIX. And, I got books. A 1983 exhibition catalog for an Alfred Stieglitz show - Invalid Link Removed - ; a book on FLLW early designs with photos and floor plans; a basic book on bungalows by Paul Duchscherer and Douglas Keister; and a very comprehensive book on Louise Comfort Tiffany and his company's output. No furniture this time, round. But, I am thinking about the Gustav Stickley 544 bookcase from 1903 that a dealer friend has. One of these:

After our day of spending way too much money we went out for sushi and other delights for dinner.

 

[notJaco]

Are you suggesting anything?

My first bass amp rig, after borrowing and/or scrounging things together for a couple of years, was a brand new Traynor YBA-3 and a pair of "home-built" (not by me) 1-15 TL style cabinets with SRO 15s in them that I got in 1974.

I had a used Traynor YBA-1 like this one as my first.

Pretty decent amp and all that I could afford at the time. I built my own enclosure and stuck an SRO 15 in it.
Rock and roll! and standards, too.

 

[notJaco]

I've never tried one of those but always heard good things about them.

They were punchy as hell and almost bullet proof.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Odin's very, very good day comes to a close

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my day is coming to a close too but not just yet. No colonoscopy prep here, it's a tasty porter. They do tell you not to drink alcohol at the conclusion of prep night, then, don't they?

That looks like a tasty treat.

 

[beans-on-toast]

I can't believe he still uses those Kustoms.

Could be it’s just for show. I see him using older Fender amps. He has several covid videos, some from his home studio. I’m amazed when I hear those signature sounds.

 

[GwenOnBass]

A friend I made at MI owned a sparkly red Kustom. Forty years, right?

At great personal risk, went outside this morning and played ball with Odin without first checking a weather app We are both well, thank you.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Someone asked for SOS, apparently.



starting the day with comfort food is not a good sign

 

[beans-on-toast]

The sky is dark, common sense says rain. The weather app shows a sun ball all day.

Dogs don’t mind getting wet. If there’s a puddle or a stream, they’re in it.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Well all get up early. I've went to pickup my grocery order. Put them away. Stick patrol in the yard. The better half is still in bed.

This is just a joke, no offense to anyone.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Personally, I like getting up early. It's quiet. Birds singing. Watch the morning develop. It's my "time" of the day.

And... I usally get up early because my back and body tells me to.

 

[mikeoso]

I sure would like to find some part of me that doesnt hurt in the morning. Getting old is not for wimps. Ah, well...as Smedley Butler said about his medals, "The rewards of a misspent youth."


In good news, I only have 40 more shrubs to plant. In bad news, I broke my damn riding mower again. I wonder if that could be the ultimate First World Problem?

 

[Charlie Tango]

But, I am thinking about the Gustav Stickley 544 bookcase from 1903 that a dealer friend has. One of these:

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One of those was just on Antiques Roadshow. It had been professionally refinished long ago, was pristine, and didn't appraise well. Don't remember how much, but I was surprised it was so little. They spent almost no time on it on the show.

 

[notJaco]

One of those was just on Antiques Roadshow. It had been professionally refinished long ago, was pristine, and didn't appraise well. Don't remember how much, but I was surprised it was so little. They spent almost no time on it on the show.

Got to be the refinish. Just the knowledge of that will turn collectors noses upward. Even if it looks great.
Might be along the lines of a genuine old guitar with all the dings and a 'relicked' (spelling?) one.

 

[SoulReflection]

I might like that bat-neck bass. I remember a mid '60s Tele bass I once borrowed from a music store that reminded me of just that.

It's strange. My '60's Tele bass was great for me, back then. Don't know how it would be today, though .

 

[notJaco]

It's strange. My '60's Tele bass was great for me, back then. Don't know how it would be today, though .

I think that I always favored a neck more like a DB neck. When I bought a Ric in the 1970's it spent most of it's time in the case until it was sold. I tried to make it work but the slender neck would give me thumb cramps.
Don't know...guess that is why they make all kinds.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I think that I always favored a neck more like a DB neck. When I bought a Ric in the 1970's it spent most of it's time in the case until it was sold. I tried to make it work but the slender neck would give me thumb cramps.
Don't know...

The Ric 4001 that was a friend's pride and joy did not garner the expected praise from me with its baseball back neck. My Ray's neck has the requisite p-bass width nut but a very slim neck back to front. The neck on the Chowny is what I'd call a very comfortable "C" neck with a slim nut. Digging that. The neck on the Acinonyx is said to be very good indeed. That bass is set to arrive Wednesday.

 

[gtmalone]

I'd love one myself, but he has people to haul them and I don't.

I've been GASing for a 200-2x15 for a long time in either blue or cascade. I played a friend's charcoal 200-3x15 in college. Let's just say you could feel that thing! Surprising how much air 100w and 3x15 will move.

Welcome to VintageKustom.Com!

 

[gtmalone]

I played a 1974 Kustom 250 with a 215 bottom (flat black tuck & roll) for many years. It was built like a German King Tiger tank and just like a Timex watch, it took a lickin’ and kept on ticken’.

Last year when my wife and I moved to our new place, I gave that rig to a good home for free. I couldn’t lift it anymore so there wasn’t any sense in moving it.

It wasn’t the best sounding amp ever, but it wasn’t bad. It was probably the only amp on the planet that could survive a direct hit by a nuclear weapon.

Kinda like the older Peavy stuff. Not very good sounding but pretty much indestructible.

 

[notJaco]

Do you remember PLUSH?

 

[gtmalone]

Oh, yeah.
Load it up with a couple of SRO 15"s and you have a challenge in front of you.
God, these were heavy.
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CTS I believe was the standard speaker with options for Jensen, Altec , or JBL depending on the amp series.