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rolandson wrote:I don't know how to describe this, there are a couple here who will 'get' instantly what I mean...
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The smell.

I don't know what it is exactly, but from the day it was made (40+ years ago) these things generate a very distinctive
aroma whenever they are fired up...that has never changed.

So as I sat through my weekly ritual of powering this, and its little sibling, up to keep the
filter caps charged, the aroma caught me and I thought of this as one of my very favorite things.
Nice, I've just starting learning and starting tossing around the idea of building a small amp kit. Next year I'll let myself think about a teeny tube amp.
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I have no room in my small apartment to stage a photo of all my favorite things so i just put together one from some of the pics i had...

1. A bottle of Jameson

2. My guns. This shot is a little old. Since then I have taken the scope off the Mosin to revert back to a more classic look (i suck with that long eye relief scope anyway), and I also put a different,smaller scope on the Marlin .22.

3. Some rock fish fillets and a crab that i caught off the Oregon coast last summer.
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GlockLobster wrote: Nice, I've just starting learning and starting tossing around the idea of building a small amp kit. Next year I'll let myself think about a teeny tube amp.
it is very easy to get hooked and then carried away...especially when one discovers how nice they sound....
then come the exotic woods and the chroming of the parts...the designer speakers...

and before you know it you have a boutique amp that you're afraid to take out of the house.
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rolandson wrote:I don't know how to describe this, there are a couple here who will 'get' instantly what I mean...
Super - Front Right.jpg
The smell.

I don't know what it is exactly, but from the day it was made (40+ years ago) these things generate a very distinctive
aroma whenever they are fired up...that has never changed.

So as I sat through my weekly ritual of powering this, and its little sibling, up to keep the
filter caps charged, the aroma caught me and I thought of this as one of my very favorite things.

In 1971 I was working at "The Swing" In North Hollywood California, My amp was a Super Reverb 64 or 66.
This was the Premier wife swapping club where many actors and people in the film business used to hang out and then go home with each others partners.
About halfway though the first set, the rectifier melted. It was basically PCB,s with a lot of skunk thrown in. The smell was so bad it closed the club for the night. At least it was a Union gig so we didn't get fired.
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Simmer down wrote:
Fukshot wrote:The colorful background is the cover of The S.C.U.M. Manifesto by Valerie Solanis.
I haven't heard of SCUM for a long time.
And I just watched "I Shot Andy Warhol" a few months ago. Great performances.

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Xela wrote:
Simmer down wrote:
Fukshot wrote:The colorful background is the cover of The S.C.U.M. Manifesto by Valerie Solanis.
I haven't heard of SCUM for a long time.
And I just watched "I Shot Andy Warhol" a few months ago. Great performances.

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Finally able to put up one of my own!

Just picked up the S&W 22 target pistol and the C-9 at the gun show today, so I don't know how favorite thing they are yet, but the dan wesson definitely belongs there.

From left to right, top to bottom:
Hellblazer graphic novel "Original Sins"
My laptop
Figure of Spider Jerusalem from the Transmetropolitan comics
1984 by George Orwell and The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin
On the other side of the laptop, a pack of playing cards and poker chips
Hi-Point C9
Smith and Wesson Model 22A with holographic sight
Dan Wesson Model 15 .357 with 6" barrel
Speedloader with .357 magnum hollowpoints and speedloader with .38 Special target rounds
Space Marine Dreadnaught and Space Marine Librarian from Warhammer 40k
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If that other thread is for gun porn. This is for the more sophisticate fetishist.

I confess that I revisit this thread, and search for it again and again just for the thrill of looking at candid pictures of firearms and irreverent items we can bring together into a more personal composition.

(FREAKY!!!! Yeah.)

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I saw this yesterday when it bumped back to the front page for a bit and thought it looked like great fun so I assembled my own during the daughter's morning nap time.

I'm clearly a book nerd (lit major with delusions of becoming a librarian).
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gendoikari87 wrote:
How's that for a collection of weird things. The cat put herself in there, but she is one of my favorite things.
Correction, YOU are one of HER favorite things. There are no cat owners, only subjects of cat overlords.
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They were over 5 years old and no-kill shelters won't take them. Spay and neuter! Let them live!
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wlewisiii wrote:Calvin, Beowulf, a shiv, a 1911 & bourbon. You'll fit in well here ;) Tried their Rye yet? Good stuff for Manhattans...
Their Rye is very good but I like Sazerac Rye a touch better. If I'm feeling spendy or can con other people into buying High West Distillery does a beautiful 21 yr aged rye. I do dearly love a good Manhattan but I drink more Presbyterians than anything else (hence the little bottle of FeverTree Ginger Beer)
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wlewisiii wrote:
rolandson wrote:
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6x6 is the finest format ... ;) Which 'flex is that?
3.5F - 75 Zeiss Planar...I think it's a type 3 from the serial number, but it has a meter which i didn't think showed up until the type 4...

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and yes, i am quite partial to the 6x6 format too...though i have been known to use a 4.5x6 back for the other one. but really, my favorite of favorites is 4x5...
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rolandson wrote:
wlewisiii wrote:
rolandson wrote:
favorite things.jpg
6x6 is the finest format ... ;) Which 'flex is that?
3.5F - 75 Zeiss Planar...I think it's a type 3 from the serial number, but it has a meter which i didn't think showed up until the type 4...

Edit:
and yes, i am quite partial to the 6x6 format too...though i have been known to use a 4.5x6 back for the other one. but really, my favorite of favorites is 4x5...
:thumbup: I'll have to include my Crown Graphic field camera next time i do one of these photos :D
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