What would you pay?
Sep. 21st, 2017 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrSo I had a fellow stop by my booth last Saturday, asking what used potter's wheels were selling for these days? He'd picked one up somewhere, was thinking of posting it on CraigsList. I said with new wheels were going for over a thousand bucks, good used ones could easily get five hundred. An older wheel might still bring a couple hundred bucks.
I've got it right here in the car, he says. Want to take a look? It's a slow day, so I walk over to see this...
It's old, like really old. I suspect it's a first-generation Brent from the mustard-yellow formica top, but don't see any sign of a maker's mark. The speed control pedal is attached to the far side of the frame, and rigged through a series of springs to the motor (which may or may not work; he hasn't plugged it in yet). The splash pan is missing, and the bushing that keeps water and slip out of the axle has detached from the wheel table, so the top bearing is frozen.
I tell him he'll be lucky if he gets fifty bucks. He seems happy with that, so I wonder how much he paid for it?
I've got it right here in the car, he says. Want to take a look? It's a slow day, so I walk over to see this...
It's old, like really old. I suspect it's a first-generation Brent from the mustard-yellow formica top, but don't see any sign of a maker's mark. The speed control pedal is attached to the far side of the frame, and rigged through a series of springs to the motor (which may or may not work; he hasn't plugged it in yet). The splash pan is missing, and the bushing that keeps water and slip out of the axle has detached from the wheel table, so the top bearing is frozen.
I tell him he'll be lucky if he gets fifty bucks. He seems happy with that, so I wonder how much he paid for it?