A Day at the Guitar Flea Market

hey how's it going everybody Brad the khatallah gist here and in this video we're gonna check out this flea market that a guy and messaged me about the other day it messaged me on Facebook and said hey there's a gear flea market in downtown Louisville you might want to check out this weekend so yeah my niece was in town with her friend and I grabbed my daughter and we all hopped in the car and headed over to see this thing a lot of the stuff was outdoors it was really freaking hot luckily though all the music gear was indoors today's video is sponsored by a native son's goods makers of the highest quality woven guitar bag and camera straps you'll ever see native son straps are handmade one at a time in the USA with unparalleled love and care click the link in the description to check out their new expanded lineup featuring all new three-inch guitar straps and remember when you support my sponsor you support this channel and I sure appreciate it first things first we wanted to swing by Goodwill store because her friends needed some new shoes they were pretty busted up so they had gone to the Louder Than Life Festival and her shoes were in very poor shape I guess after the beating they took so we wanted to get some of those while I was in there I found this thing and it's just pretty incredible check this out yeah this is just a really nice old Edison and the cabinet is in surprisingly good shape a lot of times when you find these things man they're in really really poor shape the cabinet especially but this one was in very nice shape as you can see there Victrola victor Talking Machine Company Camden New Jersey and there's the VV 400 model number and a serial number there on that little placard look at all the brass on this thing though I mean I just don't make stuff like they used to had a needle even and you can see they're on the little diaphragm it's even got the Victrola logo on that more brass they're just brass fittings everywhere they just really went all out on these things man but that little lever right there is what sets the platter in motion I wanted to check that that worked I did not end up buying this thing unfortunately I just you know I didn't have a way to get it home once again this is another another matter of me finding something really cool at a goodwill what does that say 149 or 199 but look at that though they stuck that sticker right on the top that's so dumb just come on guys at Goodwill you could do better than that just put it anywhere else that that tape will take off the finish but anyway so we headed out to this flea market they had a bunch of other stuff as well but like I said it was extremely hot outside this day luckily they had some vendors out for food and drinks but yeah inside in this basketball gym is where they had most of the good stuff that we're after here you can see a nice big hammer dulcimer there you don't see a lot of hammered dulcimer but usually when you do it's kind of impossible to test them out because they're usually out of tune and neglected I don't know how to play one anyway so it's not like sound like it matters but right away my eye goes to that little Ibanez pedal you can see there it's an early 80s analog delay that's from the original run of Ibanez pedals yeah how much [Music] yeah if we look on reverb comm he's not too far off to 50s a little bit closer to the median of what these things go for it looks like you can see some outliers at like 350 but you know in 550 even but I think they're kind of dreaming but yeah you know I think 250 is probably all the money so there's really nothing in that for me [Music] immediately my I went to that custom 250 right there that's actually the first amplifier I ever attempted to repair my buddy had one of those cool little soft tech that's a MIG 100 right there those are really nice little amplifiers after some work there was a rollin down there as well I liked that Yamaha [Music] well this is a reissue one isn't [Music] yet I originally made those back in the 60s [Music] yeah yeah here you can see one of the original sixties ones that I was talking about different pickups and everything though what's that what's this some kind of custom you know just kind of a part to build [Music] like an 80s harmony yeah you customized yeah [Music] [Music] was it originally gets hard body oh that's the face body okay I was gonna say still it seems a bit long for the sort scale they actually made a guitar with that yeah like the Kurt Cobain [Music] No [Music] special circuit he'll switch a blend one of the coils right [Music] okay so you oh yeah it's a good yep these sound really good usually [Music] super resources they made bribe announcer son bran randon right friends barbecue kind of like batteries no these are pickups they're transducers yep 70s tarmac oh those are those are some of my favorite pickups I got I went out I worked for Gibson for two years I didn't worship there picking for years [Music] what do you got what you gotta have out of that that's reasonable [Music] yeah I'd like a sound sound coffee yeah [Music] is that a tenor yes I made this bar from scratch tenor that's cool next two pickups got a piezoelectric back yeah so you can turn the [Music] basically you run stereo jack just butter busy here you film [Music] [Applause] [Music] they can make a living oh my god [Music] what's on pi soldiers then it was on electro magnetizer doesn't function unless you have a stereo once you make the nick from [Music] [Music] I didn't know if it was like a table leg or you bound or something or I like that a lot that's really cool so yeah I move it along to another one of these booths here the music they were playing the background I was afraid I was gonna get copyright strikes so I figured I would just voiceover on this part that's I'm not sure what that tele was all about but that's an older alvarez I think he wanted a little bit too much for a couple of these things sorry about the bad camera work in here good lord not sure what that is from but that's definitely from some old recorder like a reel-to-reel maybe something like that it could be like an old electro-voice mic make perhaps that I thought was old at first because of the handle that they've actually done a pretty good job lately of recreating those handles but that's not it's an it's a newer Crosley but you see what I mean that handle right there it's an older 50 style suitcase handle that they start putting on those this Philco is kind of interesting lollipop metal microphones and speaker so that would have been something like you would have sat on your desk for intercom system perhaps for 65 bucks says you know more than I wanted to take a punt on pretty cool little vintage kids drum set right there I didn't take it out or anything but it looked like it might be kind of cool set up [Music] and right away that also caught my eye right over there you could see that Japanese violin type guitar also another custom amp back there hiding and anytime you can get cases for a decent price you know if this did this case right here the vintage case I'll pick it up in one second yeah this vintage crocodile case right here had this been you know closer to you know twenty dollars or less maybe fifteen bucks i prime might have snatched it up but for forty-five it can stay plus I don't think it had a handle on it so you see a little Lisa strut machine right there I had one of those in the past that little drum machine made some demos on it years and years ago now that's a cool older Crosley that radio right there it's probably from the 40s if I had to venture a guess I'd say 1946 because they made so many radios in 1946 for the returning troops it's like more radios I think made in 1946 and any other year this was a neat little electro voice microphone as well a card axe from the 40s the problem is it's a it's a crystal mic so the odds of it working are pretty slim yeah most crystal microphones they just the crystal deteriorates you have to do some servicing on something like this usually to get it to work [Music] [Music] good Matt to barata nikto back to Barada nikto but yeah check out that scroll headstock on that thing right there really nice fretboard as well it's definitely some kind of probably 60 bucks II wonder for that thing probably Brazilian rosewood heck the neck is probably worse the 60 bucks he was asking but it looked like he didn't have any of the electronics I did end up leaving it right now I'm just you know I'm kind of strapped for cash if I'm honest so I don't really have you know room for another parts guitar that looks like an old K at least judging by the pickup but he hasn't listed as an unknown steel but like I said I'm pretty sure it's okay and right away this thing caught my eye it's an old Fender music music master bass you can see that it's been stripped the electronics but have been changed the pickguard has been changed but we can see right there the serial number was a two eight six serial number if we plug that into one of the serial number finders we can see it's 1969 or early 1970 you made in Fullerton which is about what I suspected but look at the look at the patina on that headstock on the neck just a really cool patina on that it's a shame that it's been stripped and everything but you know it is what it is he wasn't asking the moon for it which they're not worth a lot anyway but [Music] hey man are these yours yeah what's up with the music master Thanks what year is it [Music] I was gonna say because the the puts the yeah these these don't look like those look earlier the Sooners [Music] what do you want on this so it turned out this thing was a really cool microphone this is a 1950s a static model 77 dynamic mic and there was definitely some meat on the bone on that thing for 130 bucks he was asking a lot of my saw were going upwards of three [Music] and right there you can see I've spotted something cool you saw the price there for 35 bucks looks like maybe he bought it for 25 probably at a goodwill I would say because that's kind of their style of price tag but yeah if you look online this was definitely a really good buy at 35 bucks I mean all the ones that I saw were about this price about 240 250 bucks they were all like $200 and above [Music] interesting they stuck a lace sensor pickup in in this one as well I would probably yank that out and sell that separately and put something closer to the original you know style pickup in it if it was mine [Music] old Japanese base right there I think an old Japanese arch top the arch top was actually kind of cool it so Elektra by the logo that's a weird Elektra [Music] yeah what are you asking on it so he said this thing was 1930s but I believe it's probably a bit earlier probably 1920s just due to the logo saying the Gibson it's a UB one model and he was asking pretty much all the money on it though unfortunately it did have the little case with it though this thing I thought was old at first just from first glance because I had a lot of patina on the pickup rings if you could see I don't know if you can see it in the video or not but it just looks really old so I had to I had to pick it up to see what it is and as soon as I turn it around like oh no not old so after we left the flea market we went down to 21 C which is a hotel in downtown Louisville to check out some of the art work in their art gallery they usually have some pretty cool stuff they kind of they change quite often there so you can always see some pretty neat artwork installations and this was one of them that I thought was particularly interesting it's kind of a commentary it looks like on just the throwaway culture and all of our a waste that we kind of dumped on places in the third world and you know you'll see videos and stuff online where you have all these kids and they're like in these open fire pits and stuff and they're like burning all the electronics trying to retrieve precious metals and trying to retrieve whatever they can out of it lead and you know all these different metals in it I think this is a commentary on all the sicknesses that they go through you know you've got these plants kind of growing out of what looks like old sockets [Music] entire local economies are based on this stuff and it's kind of sad because you know they're doing the best they can but it's also a real real bane on the environment the way that they try to burn all this stuff part of what drives me and what I do too I try to salvage a lot of old electronics rather than throw the stuff away where I can you know obviously you can't you can't save everything but you try to do what you can and try to have some respect for the environment you know I'm not a huge tree hugger or anything like that but it doesn't take one to really understand what we're doing to the world when we we recycle things in this manner and we do this to people you see the classroom right there just right right outside of where they're doing their work and you know the kids are all exposed to this stuff and they run around on the garbage piles and I think this is a different piece but it's kind of for by the same artists and it's these rats they're playing video games and there's a Christmas tree in the corner I guess with all the new stuff and the KFC buckets and uh you know I don't know what exactly what they're trying to say here but maybe they're trying to say something along the lines of you know the consumers are like the rats or I don't even know but I thought it was kind of neat the way they incorporated all these broken pieces of of electronics all this e-waste into this artwork so yeah that'll do it I appreciate you guys watching and for now y'all take care [Music]

Channel: The Guitologist

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Rating: 4.811986 out of 5

Keywords: brad linzy, flea market, guitar, music gear, hammered dulcimer, Zoom, Ibanez, Delay, Kustom 250, Roland, Jazz Chorus, Sovtek, Mig-100, head, Yamaha, reissue, Fender, Jaguar, Harmony, Epiphone, Danelectro, Dimarzio, Gibson, tar back, pickup, Electro-Voice, 950, Astatic, Model 77, Dynamic Microphone, Fender Briefcase, Musicmaster, Bass, Vintage, UB-1, Ukulele, Banjo, Gretsch, victrola, victor, vv-400, 21c, louisville, hotel, art gallery, museum

Id: ix2rqkG1nXg

Length: 22min 29sec (1349 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 10 2019