Here is my official playlist for this series of videos. kzread.info/head/PLPtwr3QSRr7r7pLgktEvWInx6QOQgBAHr Big Al's Musician's Swap Meet. This event is held at Renningers Flea Market, Mt Dora, FL. It is currently, Second Sunday of every January, March, May, September and November.

@GrouchoTM

8 ай бұрын

Worth checking out. I'll keep it in mind.

@papawx3

8 ай бұрын

Every three months? When did they change the schedule? It had always been every other month. I set up as a vendor there three years ago and it was slow {blame it on the Fauchi virus}. All I sold was three pedals, but prices were fair and I got to meet some cool people. Worth the trip just to say I have been there and done that. Nice "Old Florida" atmosphere.

@paulpennington-mv7rt

8 ай бұрын

Omg guitars & hot rods... with those two the third comes easy.

@ed4008

8 ай бұрын

Very cool , I live close by I’d love to stop by the next one should be Feb 18th 2024 since you said it’s every three months third Sunday , right ??

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

@@ed4008 It's right in the pinned comment we are talking under.... 2nd Sunday

Dream venue, awesome guitars. Thank you for sharing. Cheers!

Looks like a great atmosphere, better than a claustrophobic Music shoppe or taking a gamble with buying on-line. You get the chance to really check the gear out with your own eyes-ears-hands. This type of "Music" fleamarket is a great idea. The prices looked reasonable too, less overheads, just 1-2 stall holders and their wares. Time will weed out the ruffians from the sincere traders. Great day out!

@tomaslopez2940

7 ай бұрын

I think not many people do them because having guitars outdoors too long will make the necks warp

This Was Very Cool! Great cover. And Love the Playing with BACKING Track and some shred lead ! Nice

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Frank.

absolutely loved that you put the contact information so anyone close enough can get a hold of the guitars

I enjoyed watching this. Thank you.

God bless you people for making videos like this. I love this shit.

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Thanks man, I will make a better one in a few months. February probably.

@robertgladstein

8 ай бұрын

Agreed

Awesome video. I saw that Fretless SD Curlee bass in there. Beautiful.

Guitar flea market, cool. Enjoyed seeing all the mods especially the leather wraps. Thanks for video.

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Douglas

Thank you for your video and Thank for filming biiy fenders entire lead i really like his style.. keep up the good work.

Thanks for touring us. Really enjoyed every second

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Sean, I am glad you liked it.

Awesome ! I love this kind of stuff make a whole day out of it😁👍

Great video 🤘🏻 I miss flea markets . I never been to a guitar flea market .That fender half stack is cool my buddy had one of those back in the day .

"There's a lot of people looking at me like I'm an idiot" I felt that in my soul! 🤣 Trying to record video in public is a daunting task to say the least! 🙄

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

I am gonna have someone run the camera next time, so I can hold and show stuff. Let the people look. lol

Awesome show. Definitely unique gear, esp the custom gas tank guitar.

Great video! looks great!! thanks for wonderful sharing!

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Thank you man

YES......................... That was very cool ................... It's nice to see what's happening guitar wise in different parts of the country..... I'm currently a Northern California San Francisco Bay Area person and it's been awhile since I've seen something like that ....... I honestly really appreciate you posting that...thank you..... I am looking forward to seeing what else you do and have done as a new subscriber..... Take care brother,... Rock on.

@HankCoffey

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Cork, there isn't another show until January. I will shoot the next video better.

This is Jeff Fender, great video by the way, It was nice meeting you in Mt. Dora @ the Billy Fender custom guitar booth. Dude you kick ass on the guitar that you bought. Hope to see you again in January on the 14th. We will be back out there. Billy has built some more customs for the show.

@HankCoffey

7 ай бұрын

Hey Jeff, thanks man. Yeah I will see you there in January. I will do a better video. I had to learn a little. Bring the customs on out!

@Gawnfall

7 ай бұрын

Are you the one with that sexy red fender strat?

Awesome video Hank, I really dig these sort of videos, I wish they had this sort of thing nearer to me. Some of the Billy Fender guitars look pretty cool

Cool, thanks. I undersold some gear there many years ago when I had too much. Now I enjoy messing with super light Squires and maybe "upgrading" them a little. The simplicity and fasting from the ridiculous "Guitar Industrial Complex" is quite satisfying at this point in life.

what a great show.. so much stuff, from the cheapest bargain starter gear, right up to the expensive and iconic. Darned I'm in England because I'd defo go. Thanks for uploading :-)))))))

@HankCoffey

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Snorky

Cool vid bro. Loved the info on them.

Great video. Really enjoyed your jamming with Billy's guitar! Nice job! Ciao! God bless!

@HankCoffey

7 ай бұрын

Hey, thank you Pale. 🙏

Awesome thanks for sharing

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day ❤😊

A couple weeks ago, I saw a clip at a north-eastern bar/venue, and there was this older looking rocking-guitarist playing this 60ish car looking guitar that was lit up. To be truthful, I may have seen one of these before, but it must have been decades ago but I wasn’t sure. The guitar caught my eye, and here I am a couple weeks later, and I find out it is an American Showster, and I get a better look at a bunch of them. Thank you. I did watch the entire video and enjoyed it. Thank you!

@HankCoffey

7 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you. I will make a better video of this place in January.

Liked and subbed.Enjoyed the walk-thru..You never know what you might see-that has to go home with you.Hope to see more walk-thru's..Best Regards

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Thank you man, I will try to do more videos like this. Might be February before another one.

Great video, thanks for that

8:27 ...COOOl ... i had one of those Vantage guitars in blue ... my first electric !

I LOVED going to the music stores and playing with the pedals

Nice vid man thanks for posting!

Great song at the end there ,i forgot that was you ,and thought it was a Bill Fender, worker ,lol😂! Thank you for the tour , i would love to find one of these in Az , Keep on Rockin'

@user-mb3md1ri5d

6 ай бұрын

Edward I'm in tustoned az

Nice shred at the end, good video too, interesting !

@HankCoffey

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Great treat - cheers!

Thanks very much I have seen guitars I never saw b4. thank you man .

@HankCoffey

6 ай бұрын

Thanks, I have another video coming real soon. Subscribe to follow the channel.

I've got 2 squire guitars, 25 year old tele and stratocaster, love them 🎸🔊☮️

Very cool thanks for sharing. Alfred NYC

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Alfred

Some really cool stuff 😎

I love looking at guitars. You playing guitar was great. Enjoyed it man, peace.

@HankCoffey

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Teddy!

Man, I live in FL... I need to check this place out. Great content man!

I ❤️ love the leather wraps!!!

Awesome video!!!

I'm gonna have to head out to Mt. Dora if nothing else than to window shop a bit... That Gretsch 5220 is the one I'm looking for right now. I've got a few Harley Benton's but not the one in this vid... The Gretsch is my choice for a single cut over the LP's simply because I love the tone of the filtertron pickups and that Cadillac logo style stop tail piece. Lots of cool stuff at this flea market. Thanks for showing me that this exists somewhat close by.

Thanks for this hank. Ive never been into one, but i hope we have one here in UK

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

You're Welcome Raffy

D'ddario is based right here on Long Island in Farmingdale LI NY. I love their strings and will basically only use theirs. Love the color coding too, especially when I'm putting a new set on my 12-string! Cause it's a nightmare otherwise. Plus their strings are just high quality, great tone and balance. I also swear by their tuners!

Lol guitar heaven - I’m going to check out that billy fender guy, the woman’s body guitar was very cool

Nice and cute guitars. ❤

Love that Vantage

I've never been to a guitar swap meet like that, it would be a blast!!

C'est vraiment genial ! Thanks a lot Hank...

@HankCoffey

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Debra!

21:16 the phrase is latin which means "Thus passes the worldly glory". It's a phrase used when a new pope is coronated.

That 81 Matsomuko looks close to being exactly the same as one of the guitars i recently had renovated. The one you saw doesn't have the original pots and the bridge configuration is different. Mine was definitely from 81 as i found an old Japanese catalogue online and it was exactly the same. It originally had to have a battery in the back but instead of setting the wiring inside the same again, we decided to dump the battery and he did his own wiring design and a Buckethead style arcade fire button was installed instesd of one of its switches.

@brianmclaughlin4419

7 ай бұрын

Aria Pro II TS 500? Thor Sound (Tri Sound is the TS 400) look at your serial # for the year. No prefix, 6 numbers, 1st digit is a 1 for '81.😊 heavy ain't it ?

The Dude at 11:50. Dried tears. Lol love his humor.

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

He isn't from Guitar Center. It's hilarious when he is saying anything you buy can be returned to Guitar Center for a full refund. LMAO

@robertclarkguitar

8 ай бұрын

@@HankCoffey that's what I mean. His humor is hilarious good!!! Hahaha 🤣

You’re the first and only person who had a peavey patriot that I know of. That was my first electric. It did not look like that guitar. It was all black, maple neck which today I would only get rosewood and the pick ups had a straight metal line across it. It served its purpose but I was glad to get rid of it. I did not like it. It was so stiff I was a beginner so that’s what they had in my price range. Today it’s so much better for beginners. I could not bend the strings but at least the neck was comfortable. Anyway, I went to get a Fender American standard at a different store and I read later that my hometown and that store was where Seymour Duncan got his start before I was born. I couldn’t connect with it and wanted humbuckers but I do still have it. Waiting to sell it. Waiting for the fender to be worth more. But the guy gave me full credit on the peavey because my teacher knew him so I got a great deal. And it was nowhere hear $500. It was around $200 I think. Can’t remember.

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Cool. Yeah, my Patriot had a walnut body I think. No finish.

Got my first guitar today g ot a really clean pre owned prs s2 I love the looks of it now for the hard part of learning how to play it

Hank at 8:41 your looking at a vantage VP 795.. I have a Arira PRO II Thor sound. With same everything except mine is a bolt on. And the selector switch is were one of the two dip switches are... I'm still not sure what the other dip does on mine. I believe it's a phase switch... but am not sure. The guitar outline is the same.. even has that "Heritage" shaped headstock.... crazy man. Cool video too!!

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Cool man, yeah I used to have a Aria Urchin that was that same type build.

That was cool 👍

Awesome!

Cool video! Just wish there were more wide shots of the entire guitar! Look forward to the next one

@HankCoffey

7 ай бұрын

I am shooting a better video of this place next month. I will do it in 4k. Less zoomed. Subscribe to know when I post it.

Very Very Cool!! Thanks man! ✌ Peace*

@HankCoffey

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Dennis, Rock On man ✌

Cool video man! I was dragging a wagon full of guitars around sold a couple and bought the green lefty lp shape in the beginning.

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Awesome man, nice.

@LCMSM

6 ай бұрын

You should consider getting a booth next time rather than dragging your gear around. Only $25!

You got some good sounds from that Squier, nice playing.

@HankCoffey

7 ай бұрын

Hey, thank you man.

Love the 80’s Peavey guitars!

@brianmclaughlin4419

7 ай бұрын

I just got a peavey milestone in teenage relic EVH condition, only they used electrician's tape😙, for cheap. Had only the bridge PU - but it was an 80s SD Custom wound by Juarez 👻🍼👈🎯👈.!!

Great video, sure wished I could have made it. Maybe next time.

I wish I had a flea market in my area like that!

I am defiantly going to follow up with Billy Fender!!!

Guitar Center dude made this hilarious. lol!

What fun! This is died and gone to heaven fun! My only advice would be to linger over each guitar a bit longer and show the headstock- brand name even if they are no no names. That is what I find interesting. Subbed! Keep ‘em comin!

The Schaller trem on that Peavey is a dream. Those only stayed in production on the Japanese Fenders etc for a couple of years 84-86 be use they were too expensive for Fender to buy in

That Slash octave fuzz is a great pedal. Half the price of boutique fuzz and sounds killer.

19:19 I really like that Billy Fender's stuff. IM not usually into super customs, but his are super custom, with lot sof cool touches and not over the top

That tackle box cigar guitar was dope

That Alvarez lawsuit acoustic for $400 was a pretty good price. I'd have bought that without thinking about it!

@brianmclaughlin4419

7 ай бұрын

Huge diff w/ the Yairi logo on top. Like two diff levels.

Wow nice DEmo of the Guitar you Bought, I was afraid to go back to that Swap Last week, because I did not want to run into that Flying v again. That I mention in the other Post.

@HankCoffey

6 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks. I am about to post a new video of last weeks event. The Gibson V wasn't there this time. The new video will be live tomorrow.

Those maple neck Epi Hockey Necks are quite good A few have passed thru my hands

great quality content I love when its real, you real...

Great video 👍🎵🎸

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Peter

I wish I still had my old electric guitar 1962 burns vista sonic all I got now is a photo of it I took theres one in the film tell star lol

hey, appreciate the video… wish I’d known about this sooner, just found your channel… peace

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Greg

Ok…those Showsters are fantastic and the retail on them when they leave the states is over $7K USD! Amazing!

Very cool swap meet I wish I had a disposable income to buy some of those old fenders n Gibson's you know they will go up in price peace

I have a 54 Hofner 12 string dreadnought that my nephew ruined by trying to tune it to open G . I love that guitar and have been trying to find someone to fix it. The bridge inside the body is broken and the bracing is all pulled loose the spruce face is cracked. It has the Made in Germany and 1954 in German on the tag. It is in a box waiting. I may tune it to Nashville tuning to take stress off of it. D’Addario makes a set of strings for Nashville tuning. Mine is a set neck with a 25.5 scale and 7.25 radius on an acoustic 12 string. It sounded so good!

@joejones9520

8 ай бұрын

weird because open g takes strings down not up.

@albaxter8711

7 ай бұрын

Yeah...downtuning it wouldn't harm it...I'm a luthier..not your nephews fault!!

Thank you, Hank, that was an absolutely awesome video. I'm glad I wasn't there 'cause I would have spent all of my money. I especially liked those '57 Chevy guitars. But I am quite sure they were out of my price range.😀😀

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Marvin, I will try to do more videos like this.

The Great American Guitar Show you see all of the strange and vintage guitars you can handle. Also a bit of everything guitar related. I found a nice mahogany Tele body for a project.

THAT WAS FUN ❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂

Nice video.. I am in fort Myers and didn't know about this guitar heavenly event. Could be a good thing 🤔 . If I walk in the house with another guitar and an empty wallet. I will be in the obituaries Thanks for the post ✌❤

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

I hear there is one in Arcadia down there. That is closer to you.

@flylippfantom8425

6 ай бұрын

Kool thanks I'll check into that

Ive been to the buildings they have on the hill when theyre open they have a few music places and a killer vinyl shop. Video games too I got Fire Red and og Wind Waker. Defiantly check them out any time they have something going on,

5:34 That Supra Distortion, had it and the Trash Master when I was a teen. Wonder what happened to them, now I have to find it, especially the Trash Master🤘

Stevie Ray Vaughan's tears dried on the back of the guitar! 🤣🤣🤣

Don't overlook the made by Matsumoku stuff. High end parts & manufacturing. Aria & Westone are two of the more commonly known brands, but Vantage of that era are the same makers in a lesser known brand. Matsumoku's head company was Singer and when it collapsed in the late 80s, Matsumoku going under was a side effect. I own two Vantage basses, a set neck factory fretless & a bolt on fretted, lovely instruments.

@philroach9402

8 ай бұрын

I've a Vantage set neck bass, one of the better basses in my collection

@d.j.9961

8 ай бұрын

I am looking for Westone guitars! I am especially looking for 1 in particular-my original (198-mbk). Do you happen to know where Matsumoku made gutars are available besides Reverb, & ebay?

@daevien

8 ай бұрын

@@d.j.9961 Basically anywhere you can find in your area, which can vary. In the US for example it's like craigslist, Canada Kijiji, Australia has it's own, etc. Besides that, like pawnshops, facebook market place, some guitar stores / chains also deal with used, etc

@BillLomey

7 ай бұрын

One of my first guitars was a 1981 Vantage VS600. Great workmanship, excellent sound, low price. Still have it!

when the 57 chevy tail fin guitars first came out in NJ 30+ years ago they were so expensive. Many players I knew at the time called them “American Shysters”!!!

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

LOL

A smaller camera lens will help you get things in frame when you're standing so close to the guitars. Great content 👍

@HankCoffey

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, I got a real nice video dropping in the morning. Stay tuned. 😎

I don’t know who you are, I have watch a total of 7 seconds before commenting…..because this is a brilliant video idea and I am really excited to watch! (Also your camera is really good!)

@HankCoffey

5 ай бұрын

Hey, thank you!

That green keith merrow is beautiful

I was there at that Swap meet. at 13:50 he shows the Guitar I was VERY interested in. According to the seller it has some touching up on the Neck headstock area, behind NUT. HE DID not SAY it was a headstk repair Break, IF I WOULD have gone to putting down serious money for it, I would have asked if I could examine the Area for evidence of headstk repair in maybe better light, him going with me. It according to him is a Gibson Custom shop 67 reissue, it has the thinner body, and the top of case is Custom shop logo'd. I could have got it for 2300.00. Those actually do go for much more on Reverb. It was also missing one other CAVEAT, the Custom Shop Cert. of Build, which I know to resell it would almost be required. I was just astonished to see it at the Swap meet.

Needs to be more guitar flea markets.

11:42 this guy is the best XDDD really made my day better

Billy Fenders booth leather wrapped. He’s a really nice guy

That showsters so cool

Man that Peavey Predator… I have 3 off those… all from’85. My favorite guitars

@HankCoffey

8 ай бұрын

I almost bought it. It was a nice guitar.

@Bbbbad724

8 ай бұрын

I have a Peavey Rage amp, that thing kicks and has good presence. But you can chug with it too. I want to get a Bandit, Peavey made really good amps. Add an Octave or a Big Muff and you can kill with that. I also would like a U neck cheap Tele routed for 500k pots and an orange cap ground to the bridge with string through body and a Seymour Duncan Humbucker on the bridge with a coil split and Strat front. 7.25 radius and Uneck 50s rosewood. I have a new Vintera 50s Reissue that I’d love to modify, but it is a real Fender MIM .