Hey, im new here and a guitar player that is 13 and my first trash picking session was at someones front yard, I found a 2007 Squier Affinity Strat and a Marshall MG15FX amp and now i own em. They work fabulous! I'm australian too!
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Hey, im new here and a guitar player that is 13 and my first trash picking session was at someones front yard, I found a 2007 Squier Affinity Strat and a Marshall MG15FX amp and now i own em. They work fabulous! I'm australian too!
Sooooooooooooo, what's you're really trying to say is that you're 13 AND live in Australia?
Welcome trashP, my advice is just read through the old threads as much as you can every day and you'll learn how to be a professional scrapper. Good luck.
No, it was out the front of the neighbours yard, their kid did not want a guitar for christmas and this squier was lying around with a 15 watt amp by Marshall and its a freaking loud amp, I use it for my solo gigs, It has effects such as delay chorus flanger phaser and reverb. the amp is a Marshall MG15fx, the guitar is a 2007 Squier Affinity Strat MII (Made in Indonesia) the serial number i dont know if its there or not but i slapped on some 11 52 gauge strings on it
TP, I just noticed that you haven't posted in the intro section....please go there, read the sticky...you'll see it...and then tell us a little more about yourself. People will be more apt to help you if they know a little more about you. You still haven't said that you got permission to take the things from your neighbors yard. We do not advocate stealing in any fashion here.
The official forum police speaks!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dumpster-Dee
Welcome to the forum and congrats on some great finds. Re-use is the ultimate of recycling, Mike.
i love guitars, those squires are surprisingly clear for first time guitars... esp plugged into the right amp. good find
Strat, tele, any of em are good
Yeah i had permission to grab the Affinity and the amp, Their kid did not want them
Good deal and your starting at a great age. I started picking in trash ata very young age...lets just say if there was a law mower or weed-eater with in a 10miles from my home..I had it....along with anything else I thought was cool....(counting shinny rocks on the side of the road) lets just say...
My mother and father are not shocked when I started this company..they are shocked I waited as long as I did. But thats all another story.
haha trash picking is fun! i found the speaker and the circuitry to a guitar amp, It powers up but no sound, so threw it back in the dumpster, I'm gonna go dumpster diving at the dump to see if i could find any more amps
Welcome mate! Nice to have another Aussie on here!
I must say for 13 your grammar and punctuation are way above what I would expect.
"al tha TXT stuf M8 " you know what I mean?
Go at it mate, you will be rewarded by good old fashioned hard work.
Where in Oz are you??
Adam
p.s before the "terminology police chime in" you are refering to trash or rubbish picking, dumpster diving denotes that you pulled the items from a bin or skip of some sort.
Just getting in before some of the more anal members do :)
I'm in NSW and i love trash picking! I just trash picked a old lap steel guitar with a 1952 telecaster and 2 old amps! I'm keeping em, the Tele will be used for country and the lap steel will be used for slide, The amps i trash picked were a Fender Deluxe reverb (Silverface from 1974) and a fender champ, They work and sound great along with my Strat and a few other guitars
We tend to find what is of interest to us at the time & thats key, as you learn what sells with value you will find more, for now you are probably missing out on the metals.
So when you see a bunch of cooking pots in the trash grab them take handles off, now you have 4 to 5 lb AL @ .50 Metal finds are not to be looked down upon for the small sums as yearly the sums for copper AL SS Brass will add up.
Please dont take this the wrong way, but why do you assume new members are guilty of theft straight away?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dumpster-Dee
I would find that very off putting if I was a new member.
I for one will never justify where I get my scrap, regardless of who may ask, as I know that I do the right thing.
Just asking :)
Why put back to trash when you could have sold it to the yard ??Quote:
Originally Posted by TrashPickingAusKid2
Come on Torker Man. No one said he was guilty of theft. She simply made a comment and gave some good advice. "We do not advocate stealing in any fashion here." What's wrong with that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Torker Man
Welcome aboard TPAK2! Lots of great advice and help here. Read and learn.
^^^ O.K then, why not say
"welcome to the forum :) just a tip, make sure you get permission from the home owner if you are not sure. best of luck"
better to sound like a friend, than a grumpy old school headmaster/mistress don't you think?
'tone' (second only to sarcasm it seems) is very difficult to portray over a keyboard, and that post isn't on its own. :)
and while we are at it "you STILL haven't" its like he has ignored a comand or something...
Because as we get older the filter doesn't work quite as well any more, not too mention just plain being fed up with the whole "politically correct" movement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Torker Man
^^^ exactly! so why would anyone say anything in the first place.
Her first reply was friendly and professional.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dumpster-Dee
Quote:
Originally Posted by Torker Man
Her second was good, sound, advice. Not a grumpy old school headmistress. Tpak2 is a kid. Kids need guidance. That's all Dee was doing. The kid can learn alot from her and many others here. Including yourself Torker Man as you are very knowledgeable in the scrap metal industry yourself.
O.K, i'll leave it at that. I have said enough. I think everyone knows where I stand now on those types of comments.
**back to regular programing**
Oh! I just noticed you are from Batten Rouge. I Did my Snap-On training in Fort Worth with a mountain of a man called Meme. he was from Batten Rouge.
Would be funny if you kew him (would have been a Snap-On tools dealer 2001 onwards) I think he was a city council member too?
i just trash picked a monitor from a friend's house, It works but the screen bounces up and down, Here it is http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/...snapshot-2.png