(01-13-2013, 07:07 PM)Haze28 Wrote: Im about to start building the 1964 Topps set from scratch and was wondering how long it has taken some of you to do a set from scratch. I'm going to be a little picky and will be trying to grab the stars in graded slabs. I have a feeling this will take a few years.
I think a lot of it will come down to the condition you are after, the funding you have available, and if you are doing anything else within the hobby at the same time.
I completed my '55 Topps set at the start of 2012 after starting it circa 2000. Granted, I was out of the hobby from about 2004-2009 and when I was in it, I was also chasing other things in the hobby which slowed progress down. I was lucky in that around the 2000 timeframe on the ebay discussion boards (used to be a decent place) someone was upgrading their '55 set to chase an all PSA 8 version and I got almost half of his set to begin with.