What are your new years phono resolutions for 2024!

[AmberolaAndy]

Phono resolutions for 2024
Ok gang I’ve put off certain things phono wise due to other projects and life getting in the way..

1. Renew my subscription to The Antique Phonograph magazine
2. Get the Edison Standard B I got from Jerry B this past summer up and running and have it become my main recording machine since it’s a little rough around the edges, I don’t mind if it gets wax shavings all over it.
3. Ditto with the ICS Amberola 30 (atleast get a grill and new horn spring the chip out the pot metal on my reproducer to horn connector and if I’m lucky, have a replacement reproducer for it)
4. Get the elbow and crane for my Music Master bell.
5. Add more advertisements and newspapers articles to my threads about both
6. Get the proper speed screw and mounting screws for my Columbia eagle.
7. Finally send out the reproducers to Steve Medved
8. FINALLY get my first 7 inch Berliner, Zonophone, Columbia climax or any records from the 1893-1902 period
9. Ditto for brown wax records
10. Get my Columbia lyric repro rebuilt


I probably won’t guarantee everything but if I can get half of this list taken care of before 2025 I’ll be happy.

What are your Phono resolutions for 2024?

[Curt A]

No more projects...

Stay alive at least until 2025...

Stay off eBay...

Stay off Amazon...

[Ben the phono man]

Pay off some phonograph Debt I owe some friends!

[epigramophone]

Try to keep my 78 collection down to about 2000, by getting rid of some as rarer ones arrive.

Try to keep my Blue Amberols (the only cylinders I collect) down to about 200.

Keep looking for the HMV102's I need to complete the full set. They are :
The elusive pink one, a limited edition never catalogued.
The even more elusive pale green one. Should have bought it when I saw it in 2008.
The German Electrola, but not the overpriced one which has been on eBay for months if not years.
The Italian "La Voce del Padrone".
The Spanish "La Voz de su Amo".

[gramophone-georg]

78 to 80!

Oh, wait... you said RESolutions. My bad.

[poodling around]

No more projects...

Stay alive at least until 2025...

Stay off eBay...

Stay off Amazon...

Great list !

I agree - except for the projects. That is all I should be doing next year !

Clear up the gramophone room ...

Sort out and list on a data base the gramophone records ...

Make three gramophones ...

Other project 'bits and bobs' !

[oliver]

I think I'll get one more basket case phonograph. I know I said I wouldn't do that any more but I am allowed one exception

[LimeTree99]

1. Learn to be more patient with projects, particularly with refinishing (aniline powder dye is a pain to work with if you have no prior experience)
2. Get a better set of tools for working on said projects. Right tools for the right job, etc.
3. Find a better way to store cylinders and 78's. Currently running out of shelf space.
4. To stop buying expensive things off eBay from non-specialized sellers.
I once had an antique dealer ship me a whole Amberola wrapped up in nothing but two bath towels and a fabric marching band banner. It wasn't pretty...

[AmberolaAndy]

1. Learn to be more patient with projects, particularly with refinishing (aniline powder dye is a pain to work with if you have no prior experience)
2. Get a better set of tools for working on said projects. Right tools for the right job, etc.
3. Find a better way to store cylinders and 78's. Currently running out of shelf space.
4. To stop buying expensive things off eBay from non-specialized sellers.
I once had an antique dealer ship me a whole Amberola wrapped up in nothing but two bath towels and a fabric marching band banner. It wasn't pretty...

Yup you better watch out for those eBay sellers. I look at feedback and other things being sold by the seller after a certain incident I had in May of 2018 with a VV 2-55. Same with the Lid to my Standard E. Still remains the only negative review I ever gave someone on eBay. And a good set of tools is a must. I’m really happy ACE Hardware opened up a store in my small town. It will make it SOOO much easier to get what I need.

[Homestead]

I made a deal with the Mrs....happy wife, happy life! I have 9 phonographs currently and one more to go. Plan to get a Victor 3 or 4 with wood horn early in 2024. Have found one already that I can afford but a couple hundred miles away...this is Texas! I am getting stuff while the getting is good. Prices are depressed, so I have been getting the machines I could only have dreamed of years ago. I have a stable job that allows me to feed this hobby, but the economy is shaky and with a crazy election season ahead I just want to get them while I can...Y'all understand? Then the rest of the year is fixing up and finishing up the 10 I will have. They all need work of some type, some much, some very little, but just want them squared away. New projects then include cylinder storage cabinet and some type of storage for the discs I have here and there and fixing up the Edison Home Kinetoscope! (found it on Facebook Marketplace if you can believe it!) 2023 was the year of acquisition, 2024 will be the year for restoration. Happy New Year to you all......James