Find of the week

[BrianB]

Great job Brian! (The 'Brian's" strike again!) '>

The "B" looks really solid, if you need any tips on it, feel free to ask. I'm about 85% done restoring my "B". I'm currently in the process of veneering it. After shopping around and doing oodles of research I decided it would be far less expensive and a better learning experience to boot!

Oh yeah, that stairclimber is AWESOME! I'd love to have one.

[bcharlton]

Brian, I have tons of questions.  It is my first Seeburg.  Can I call live time.  I have a lot of little things I am working on.

BrianC

[davethebirdman]

Blimey

you people make me soooo green with envy......

I paid more for shipping my candy machine over than you laid out for a great Juke.

I'd like to see pictures of your malt shop too...

Dave (The green eyed Englishman)

[TheGarbageHunter]

Nice find! I hope to find one someday for 50.00. Just kidding. Enjoy your new music box. '>

[sodaworks]

Nice find!! The Seebirg B is one of the first jukes I restored. It sounded great. Yours looks complete, If not let me know I have a "B" that I am thinking about parting out soon. '>

[bcharlton]

Terry:
I am thinking about doing a grade one on it but I have already started my Seeburg HF100R.  Did you use a zebra wood laminate to restore it?  I played with the amp today and now I have everything working.  It selects and I can't believe that it actually sounds great.  If I decide to do it like the way I have done the other restoration, I will have a ton of questions for you.  If you look at the photos, I am missing the trim pieces that go around the outline of the cabinate.  Would you sell me those trim pieces?  Please let me know.

BrianC

[bcharlton]

Dave; (The birdman)

What seems to be the rage in Europe over the AMI 200 Js.  They seem to go for abourt twice over seas then they go for in the US.  Do the Europeans like the AMIs better then the Seeburgs?  I have owned both and prefer the Seeburgs.  Your thoughts?

BrianC

[sodaworks]

Hello BrianC,
 The trim pieces that you are missing are they the pieces that connect the 4 cornered chrome pieces together in the front? Around the speaker area? I will help you out anyway I can. I painted the cabinet on the "B", I didn't try to re-laminate it. I had a buyer that wanted it painted.

[davethebirdman]

Brian

I've had Jukes for about seven years. Have visited all the shows here in the UK during that period.

The Holly Grail is still the Wurly 2000 but now followed closely by The AMI I & H. We have a lot of Rockola's floating around this side of the pond. I think that the Rockola Comany may have been more aggresive in thier marketing than the other three. Things like Tempos & Regis's are fairly easy to get hold of.

The earlier AMI's were also shipped over in the early 50's and converted by a British Company to beat the Customs import ban. That company Balfour put out models almost Identical to the US version but re-branded them Bal-Ami's.

Seeburgs are almost non-existent. You can go to shows see loads of Wurlys Rockolas and AMI but maybe only one or two Seeburgs and then they'll normally be the R or maybe a B.

Price wise the cost this side is easily double what you'd pay. To give you an idea I paid £4,000. for a A1 restorded Empress (200 play) it really is fantastic but not a top of the list box. I bought my Wurly 1900 for just under £4,000 and spent about another £1000 sorting it out cosmetically. Even things like chroming here would cost twice what you guys would pay.

The market has pretty much stagnated with Jukes and they are perhaps not the investment that everyone selling them said they would be. I never bought mine for money I could never re-sell them. To me they are a piece of art a time captured in history. The market is also a little stuffed up with smaller dealers knocking out boxes on Ebay UK. The Dutch too are massively into Jukes and they are only across the water to us.

The thing that we don't have in plentiful supply is Soda Machines. There are, as far as I am aware, no dedicated dealers in these machines. The Juke boys may have the occasional machine that they will bring to the shows but nobody that would specialise in these. If I had the intial outlay & the balls I'd ship some over set up a route near the city in the US Banks and vend bottles at a £1.00 (about $1.70) with a big notice n the machines telling them how they could own their very own machine in their city pads at only $7,000. With the bonuses that are flying around in the city that's chicken feed.

We can all dream......    


http://collectables.listings.ebay.co.uk/Jukebox....temList

The Ebay Juke page...

Dave

[MoonDawg]

Dave, you could set up your 39 for public use, but you won't get more than 10 cents for each product you sell........ Is the Whirlitzer reproduction V-44 selling well over there?