There are a lot of things that I have collected and most of those are guitar related. That doesn't mean that I still have those collections, since my focus changes from time to time. Of the collections that I still have, my guitar literature collection, which includes books, catalogs, photos, ads and other paper stuff takes up most of the space.
However there are also things that I've collected that are not necessarily a collection. When I started doing repairs for a living it was my habit, after a re-fret job, to throw the old frets in a box that was under my workbench. It turned out that while working on older guitars it could happen that I would be in need of a certain fret type with a specific size for the restoration of an older guitar and quite often I could find a suitable piece in my 'obsolete frets' box; remember that when doing complete re-frets, half of the frets are still pretty good.
So after many years of doing repairs my 'obsolete frets' box is a big drawer now and from time to time I can still find 'the right piece' that I would not be able to find commercially.
Here's the drawer that would never be my choice for the 'drawer of the month' thread:
And here's a closer look:
Even though I realize that I will never have a use for these frets, I cannot get myself to throwing them in the waste bin!
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl