Hi Andy! I got started around maybe 2006? I thought about the rotary phones my Uncle had in the house years ago and looked up rotary phones. Came across a site called old phone works. I bought a white 554, and mounted it in my apartment I had at the time. Loved it though payed too much for it I am sure. A couple years later really got bitten by the bug and found this forum. I was serving overseas during a deployment and started buying phones off ebay. My WE302 was really the one that I really got to refurbish. I wet sanded the case, polished the handset, cleaned the cords, and my then wife touched up the red letters on the dialface. I still want some more phones but my other hobby(guns) has taken the money away lol!