I’ve ammassed over 20 years worth of experience of true picking; finding stuff at the source…not clean & shiny, sitting on some antique store’s shelf, or on teh wall in someone’s collection. Sure, I have bought from those sources, also, …. People think us pickers, antiquers, junkers (etc) are bizarre, weird, strange, etc, too. They really have no reason to think that, they just do not understand our lifestyle, interests, etc. So what? That is their problem, not yours. … …

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A Picker's Journal: Pickers, UFOs, and the AVRO project