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·I'm gonna light a fresh candle if we're goin down the road of booze and guns.
The (other) things we collect
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·Got a whole cabinet of vintage scotch. Youngest is a '67.
Wife just bought me a Glockzilla for my birthday (model 40 MOS 10mm). Ain't she somethin'?
Wife just bought me a Glockzilla for my birthday (model 40 MOS 10mm). Ain't she somethin'?
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··Bill @ ΩFHi
Everyone... been collecting spring driven devices for many many years aka things with springs. Here is a pics of my new layout of clocks and one phonograph ...
And setting up my new office
Everyone... been collecting spring driven devices for many many years aka things with springs. Here is a pics of my new layout of clocks and one phonograph ...
And setting up my new office
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·Hi
Everyone... been collecting spring driven devices for many many years aka things with springs. Here is a pics of my new layout of clocks and one phonograph ...
And setting up my new office
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··Bill @ ΩFNow thats a tease ....you'll have to show more of that Mac setup (and I don't mean computer)
Well
The speakers are McIntosh XR5 and the receiver is a Marantz 2325 , actually was sort of a barn find.... was visiting a clockmaker and this was his old great collecting dust in the cellar.... the XR5 drivers needed the surrounds redone ,( thanks to bill at millersound!) and needed a new Mq-104 to adj the low end as per design. He was used the speakers as clock stands ! The Marantz was just sitting in a corner on a saw horse desk made out of an old door.....
They needed a new home !
My home system is a pai of DQ-10 driven my Carver m1.0t and a dq -1w low bass module drive by a Dayton subwoofer amp !
Lots of fun
Plenty of jazz
Good Hunting
Bill
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·Well
The speakers are McIntosh XR5 and the receiver is a Marantz 2325 , actually was sort of a barn find.... was visiting a clockmaker and this was his old great collecting dust in the cellar.... the XR5 drivers needed the surrounds redone ,( thanks to bill at millersound!) and needed a new Mq-104 to adj the low end as per design. He was used the speakers as clock stands ! The Marantz was just sitting in a corner on a saw horse desk made out of an old door.....
They needed a new home !
My home system is a pai of DQ-10 driven my Carver m1.0t and a dq -1w low bass module drive by a Dayton subwoofer amp !
Lots of fun
Plenty of jazz
Good Hunting
Bill
Btw Mac speakers are almost never seen these days. They have a particular sound that matches that era (70s). At the local flea market there is a pair of large Macs(can't tell what model but about 24"tall) and they sounded quite pleasing with the vintage phono and Mac amp. To see these in a flea market is astounding. I think it's because they basically look like a piece of furniture , as you mentioned yours were used as stands. They don't look like much but they were big coin back in the day.
Oh by the way , my gym is Carver equipped, my office is Mac. Used daily and run perfect. Right there with you on equipment preference. My rec room has a Pioneer Elite receiver which is quite nice. My neighbor gave it to me when he upgraded [emoji50] [emoji50] ☺
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·As I was mentioning to Chris, I was pretty lucky with Magic the gathering as just after I got my first 60 card deck and couple of booster packs (I went without lunch many tuckshop days as my lunch money was slightly more than the cost of a MTG booster pack at the shop near the school gate), for my 7th birthday my grandfather gave me a MTG book that listed all the rare cards and how to identify them.
There was no real internet access here back then and no MTG websites and the cards themselves had no information on them concerning rarity, the rares also typically had really complicated and unappealing text on them compared to like a 8/4 trample (crash of rhinos http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=3379&type=card) which looks cool and powerful but is actually costly to play and only useful late game.
So I basically proceeded to trade my commons and uncommons that looked cool but weren't rare for other people's boring looking rares as I had the book and could identify them when nobody else knew. After primary school my collection was about 60% rares compared to most people's 5%. Mine are all played though not mint and we used to play on the concrete handball courts so the backs are often scuffed up a fair bit but I don't regret that at all, had a lot of fun doing it and I still play Magic The Gathering on iPad now (Magic Duels) and Hearthstone.
Below are some of my favourites, Ihsan's Shade has art by Christopher Rush, the same artist that did Black Lotus and I love the design he did for that card, its easily my favourite of all. Infernal Darkness I have four of and is my favourite bastard card, playing a 4 way or more game it totally incapacitates any player not playing a black deck (like myself) and probably brought me more wins than any other.
BTW if anyone wants to try hearthstone let me know and I'll send you an invite code so I can get a cool shaman avatar if you make it to level 20, I asked Trev if he would but he said his wife would make fun of him for being a nerd if he played a card game lol.
the old school is worth a lottttt!
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·Chinese armorial export, 18th/19th century silver and decorative arts...
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··Bill @ ΩFThat's all very nice (great setup) but I spy that OTHER Mac box in the corner of the photo....do tell.
Btw Mac speakers are almost never seen these days. They have a particular sound that matches that era (70s). At the local flea market there is a pair of large Macs(can't tell what model but about 24"tall) and they sounded quite pleasing with the vintage phono and Mac amp. To see these in a flea market is astounding. I think it's because they basically look like a piece of furniture , as you mentioned yours were used as stands. They don't look like much but they were big coin back in the day.
Oh by the way , my gym is Carver equipped, my office is Mac. Used daily and run perfect. Right there with you on equipment preference. My rec room has a Pioneer Elite receiver which is quite nice. My neighbor gave it to me when he upgraded [emoji50] [emoji50] ☺
Well on Apple Mac stuff.... i was an early Mac guy got my first Mac July 19th 1984, a a friend of mine order it for me as he was a Apple developer and got it for me for 1200 $ with an imagewriter printer. It was a very cool time the screen was 72 dpi and the printer was 72 dpi.... really WYSIWYG !! Before Mac stuff I used Radio Shack Z-80 based computers like a TRS-80 and I used to have my own BBS ( Bulletin Board System ) Joke-80... ran it on campus !! using a HayesStack Smartmodem! I was first a hardware guy... then the Mac came along.... If you wanted it to talk it just needed another program... in comparison to the TRS-80 that needed a VOICE Synthesizer box. .. I remember just being amazed oh extensive the Mac platform was then.
Well when I graduated from university .... wound up getting a job as a SE for a Apple VAR... from there ... worked at places like Compugraphics , AGFA, Aldus, Adobe .... was going thru the "A's... almost worked at Apple a few times but I scared them off during interviews to later be working in the field with the same people as the point person from Adobe ! hahahahaha...
It was all good... traveled the world...
So back to Mac hardware.... Yes I have had lots over the years... even Lisas !!
But currently the one in the pic is a few years old... and just moved it and I knocked it over and crack the corner of the glass!!! it hit my coffee cup that was on the desk!! Coffee is fine the cup is fine but the Mac took a slight hit !
Good Hunting
Bill
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What a beautiful interior. It is however my sad duty to inform you that you have been the victim of a practical joker, who has somehow gained entrance to your house and substituted a piece of kitsch for one of your prize possessions. I'm surprised you haven't noticed it yet.
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·What a beautiful interior. It is however my sad duty to inform you that you have been the victim of a practical joker, who has somehow gained entrance to your house and substituted a piece of kitsch for one of your prize possessions. I'm surprised you haven't noticed it yet.
Unless of course I am completely missing something.
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·ah was hoping there were more of us, saw the no guns
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·Balisongs(butterfly knives) Started in the 80s with a Taekwondo and weapons kick for several years. Gotta find a good pic, have a few dozen I think by now. I have a favorite pair that I flip with both hands. It's impressive the speed that can be achieved. What you see in the movies is done very slow so that it can be seen on screen .
oh boy!!!! i remember in hs which was the mid 2000s and im still kicking myself for passing on a bm 43 on the secondary market. i didnt have the $350 or so for it 🙁. now they are tough to find at that price. Actually a huge fan of knife collecting, butthere are too many to take out for a picture. the rubiks cubes and coins are definitely easier, but harmonicas were the handiest.
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·The melon....😉