Hi Cory,
I just saw your second post first and welcomed you aboard there thinking I'd somehow missed your first post. By golly here it is. Welcome again!
You are young and for that many of us will envy you for it. You will get to enjoy this great hobby of collecting vintage TV's for much longer than most of us will. I only 'discovered' this hobby about 7 years ago despite a lifelong interest in TV technology. I just never, ever ran across any vintage TV sets in my travels, so the idea never popped into my head until I saw a neat 10", 1948 bakelite Admiral consolette being repaired at the back of a TV repair shop one day about 1994 in Toronto. I started searching for one and found one the next year. Really rough, paid way too much for it and it needed a lot of parts including a knob set, a new cabinet, and a 10BP4. Well in tracking down those items I discovered the 'network' and have been building and restoring a private collection ever since.
Yes some of the vintage sets which have had pictures posted by our members here are pretty awesome. I hope you will become a regular contributor.
Rob