Compulsory surplus and useless items found in your Guitar ManDrawer.

Gassage

What's in your man draw that's useless, suprplus, broken or dormant and you can;t be bothered to sling it?

Every one has this and everyone, I guarantee, has the junk.

Mine:

• CLip on tuner with dead batt x 2
• A random 12AX7
• A PP3 that you're not sure is dead or alive
• 3 rubber wah feet
  
• 3 sets of strings, opened, all missing the top E string.
• A shit far east pick with loads of small screws and metal objects attached to it
• Two broken trem arms
• A bridge from a guitar you sold years ago.
• 3 schaller strap ends, no matching guitar ends
• 9 rack nuts, broken
• 11 small screw driver bits from a screwdriver pack given at Xmas that was shite and broke
• 7 assorted allen keys, none of which fit any guitar I own
• 2 Strat trem springs
• And, the legendary....strat ashtray, never used.
• A rockhard bottle of superglue
• 3 G L's Jacks, with 2 with the screw egd missing.
  

Brize

Gassage said:

A random 12AX7

Is that from the Tweed Deluxe that you bought from me?

Gassage

Brize said:

Gassage said:

A random 12AX7

Is that from the Tweed Deluxe that you bought from me?

It could be from any of a 1000 or so.

ourmaninthenorth

I'll take the bottle of superglue...stick it in the post James..

fandango

Hi, Santa here!

I know some naughty children for which the two broken trem arms and the nine broken rack nuts will make ideal presents.

Please ship to Santa's Hideaway, North Pole to reach me by next Saturday, so I have time to wrap them before my lung bursting tour of the world's chimneys.

Yours ever,
Santa
(aka Father Christmas)

p90fool

All of the above plus around £1000 worth (RRP) of aftermarket pickups, about a dozen half-populated Theremin PCBs, 2x empty Lambert & Butler packets from when I was occasionally still having a sneaky fag about eight years ago and every useless, piss-poor quality pot, cap and switch from every guitar I've ever dismantled over 40 years. 

That one drawer doesn't even scratch the surface tbh, I have boxes piled on boxes piled on boxes almost filling the attic, to the point where I'm worried about the weight up there. 

mudslide73

Use your tongue on the PP3. If it's very tingly the battery is good.

I have a load of DS1 bits from failed Monte Allums attempts. @ThorpyFX I am not.

2x elastic capos. Plectrum cutter. The original bridge and tailpiece from my LP. Loads of Strat bits n bobs. Crap picks people have seen in random places assuming they're all the same. Pots x10 at least. Pickups. 

Flanging_Fred

A left handed strat trem arm despite not being left handed.

Some seemingly obscure russian valves that have no discernable use other than maybe in the avionics systems of a mig-21.

A set of pitch pipes that are clearly out of tune.

Panama_Jack666

Gassage said:

What's in your man draw that's useless, suprplus, broken or dormant and you can;t be bothered to sling it?

Every one has this and everyone, I guarantee, has the junk.

Mine:

• CLip on tuner with dead batt x 2
• A random 12AX7
• A PP3 that you're not sure is dead or alive
• 3 rubber wah feet
  
• 3 sets of strings, opened, all missing the top E string.
• A shit far east pick with loads of small screws and metal objects attached to it
• Two broken trem arms
• A bridge from a guitar you sold years ago.
• 3 schaller strap ends, no matching guitar ends
• 9 rack nuts, broken
• 11 small screw driver bits from a screwdriver pack given at Xmas that was shite and broke
• 7 assorted allen keys, none of which fit any guitar I own
• 2 Strat trem springs
• And, the legendary....strat ashtray, never used.
• A rockhard bottle of superglue
• 3 G L's Jacks, with 2 with the screw egd missing.
  

Let me buy one of them clip ons off you!

ThorpyFX

mudslide73 said:

Use your tongue on the PP3. If it's very tingly the battery is good.

I have a load of DS1 bits from failed Monte Allums attempts. @ThorpyFX I am not.

2x elastic capos. Plectrum cutter. The original bridge and tailpiece from my LP. Loads of Strat bits n bobs. Crap picks people have seen in random places assuming they're all the same. Pots x10 at least. Pickups. 

How did it fail? I could prob fix it if you still have it 

Sassafras

Enough patch cables to  make a pedalboard the size of Yorkshire.
Lots of out of date flat batteries.
Four tuners I never use.

Gassage

Panama_Jack666 said:

Let me buy one of them clip ons off you!

I've listed them on the 50Shades XDressing FB Group.

Bridgehouse

I've got about 5m of copper foil conductive tape in mine. Over the space of a few weeks it seems to unravel itself and wrap around every single other item in the drawer. 

richardhomer

I’ve got a full set of original pickguard screws from a ‘63 Strat.

I bet they’re quite valuable these days....

Gassage

richardhomer said:

I’ve got a full set of original pickguard screws from a ‘63 Strat.

I bet they’re quite valuable these days....

I have an L series neck plate...£50 to anyone..

Blackjack

A few used strings or bits of string that appeared out of nowhere post restringing
Various old batteries - no idea if dead or alive 
A few cocktail sticks left over from restringing my Tele
A selection of tuners that don't work
Old mint green scratch plate from my Tele
Strat trem arm
couple of Allen keys
A few biros that don't work
Couple of dead guitar leads
Loads of receipts from GuitarGuitar
Bits of fluff, scraps of paper and lots of dust!!!!

Panama_Jack666

Gassage said:

Panama_Jack666 said:

Let me buy one of them clip ons off you!

I've listed them on the 50Shades XDressing FB Group.

I'm an admin on that. Will approve your post!

Winny_Pooh

Pp3s
Metronome
Gibson truss rod tool
Mini hex keys
Clip on tuner
Nail clipper
Picks
Pocketknife
4x lip balm
Store cards
Sex vouchers
Eraser

57Deluxe

old strings

ESBlonde

I' concerned some of you are only allowed a drawer.

AlexC

Usual stuff that’s been mentioned - strings, screws,tuners, etc, but I also have a vast plectrum collection of picks that people have given me in styles and gauges I’ll never ever use. Including one with Jesus on it, a bikini ‘beauty’, a picture of an old telephone, several South Park characters and a collection printed with images of 1970s sweets... Maybe I could open a museum.