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Post by matryx81 on Sept 23, 2021 10:43:20 GMT -5
Yep, and that is never fun.
(I had bottles pop corks one time thanks to a storm that came in that night. Too bad, as it was a blueberry rhubarb batch that tasted superb initially. I need to make it again one of these days.)
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Sept 23, 2021 11:27:33 GMT -5
I'm a hobby hopper. I typically have something that's the primary at any given time, but then something new takes the forefront. I don't give up the previous hobbies, I just add on.
Over they years (other than the obvious guitar playing): golf sailing target shooting/reloading power boating poker brewing beer wood working wine/beer appreciation (including going to France for wine tasting) car driving/racing Motorcycles (dirt biking...driving a cycle on the street/highway is boring) bicycling Home DIY construction gardening/canning Hunting fishing snow skiing water skiing soccer
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Post by michael on Sept 23, 2021 11:33:52 GMT -5
Winemaking. That hobby always seems to be a conversation piece. i've done a bit of that... and beer. i got into experimenting with old ways of brewing/wineing after watching a program on tv. the wine actually turned out ok, beer, not so good, or at least not what i would like.
i've been curious about the home made beer kits i see on the internet. looks like they sell a pre-mix that all you do is add water? and put it in one of their containers to work?
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Post by saltyseadog on Sept 23, 2021 11:52:06 GMT -5
Like LarryMadsen above I have take great pride in doing things myself. Outside building my own parts guitars and modding my Fender Blues Junior including building a finger jointed pine cab based on a Fender Bandmaster adding two 8" speakers to the original 12" and covering it in tweed to which someone here called a blues senior. Over the years I have become quite good with my hands as they say and woodwork, metalwork, welding, soldering etc. My wife calls me a Jack of all trades which is probably true enough but also master of none is also true. When we were younger and wanted a painter to paint and paper our house he gave me a quote and I said to my wife rather than pay that I would rather do it ourselves and we did and it turned out okay so after that over time all the jobs around the house became mine. After finishing the inside of our present house in which along with papering and painting I also fitted our kitchen, bathroom including the tiling and plumbing and converting our loft into first an extra bedroom but once the kids moved out it is now my workshop/hobby/music room and as my wife is now having problems getting up the stair to the loft next on the agenda is moving the office up to the loft and turning that bedroom into a sewing/hobby room for her. Outside over time I built all the fencing, flower boxes etc and installed the patio decking. The wife is the flower person but I prefer to plant vegetables and the last three years have had great success growing potato's, carrots, turnips, onions etc in containers. We also grow our own tomato's. Our hobbies tend to be seasonal outside from April to September inside from October to March. This winter after watching a You Tube video of a saddler making a guitar strap I thought that sounds like a plan so bought some proper 1.5 & 3" dyed leather strapping, some azure dyed pigskin, memory foam for the padding a buckle set and the various rivets etc, a cheap set of chinese leather work tools off Ebay and made myself a guitar strap straight out of Texas, the second one in the pics was a bought strap which I used the leftover leather I had and only had to buy an extra buckle set. Almost forgot, I also make my own sausages and looking at the photo's I also just remembered that we both re-upholstered those chairs as well last winter. We bought them when we lived in Denmark around 40yrs ago. Original scandinavian design which are very comfy and I think that was the third or fourth time we re-did them. i.imgur.com/ZnUmpos.jpgi.imgur.com/NSPrOk4.jpgi.imgur.com/LetCX1c.jpgi.imgur.com/5ZS26Bl.jpgi.imgur.com/OYtH5I8.jpgi.imgur.com/DufPLg2.jpgi.imgur.com/MQ6PRP4.jpgi.imgur.com/vxVYpzF.jpgi.imgur.com/PdIWGAe.jpgi.imgur.com/XsHLfOT.jpg
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Post by Davywhizz on Sept 23, 2021 12:19:03 GMT -5
Impressive work Mr Salty. I get most of the home maintenance tasks too and currently have a scary few days balancing on a plank between two ladders to wallpaper our stairwell. It feels higher up there.
Since the first COVID lockdown, my main hobby has been putting together and then upgrading a compact hifi system and digitising our CD collection as part of that. I also made my own custom hifi rack, including isolation features, which turned out pretty well. I taught woodwork in a previous life but have never had a workshop, it's still on the wish list.
Your post has made me think of trying some leatherwork. When I was a boy in my home town (where you now live) there was a very skilled old saddler: my friends and I went to him for our belts. He would make them to measure while we waited, much more cheaply than the shop prices.
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Post by themaestro on Sept 23, 2021 12:21:33 GMT -5
Funny you mention accordion collecting... I have 2. Maybe that isn't quite a collection. I still have my original Lira "I'm a big boy, now" accordion. I got it when I was about 10 or 11. It's looking pretty rough, but it still plays well. A couple of years ago I picked up a nice Hohner with musette tuning. I had always wanted a musette (think the the typical French warbley-sounding accordion). I still drag one to gigs. My band plays about 4 songs with me on accordion.
I like motorcycles and mechanical stuff, but it's getting harder lean over the stuff and do the physical work.
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Post by saltyseadog on Sept 23, 2021 12:42:10 GMT -5
Impressive work Mr Salty. I get most of the home maintenance tasks too and currently have a scary few days balancing on a plank between two ladders to wallpaper our stairwell. It feels higher up there. Since the first COVID lockdown, my main hobby has been putting together and then upgrading a compact hifi system and digitising our CD collection as part of that. I also made my own custom hifi rack, including isolation features, which turned out pretty well. I taught woodwork in a previous life but have never had a workshop, it's still on the wish list. Your post has made me think of trying some leatherwork. When I was a boy in my home town (where you now live) there was a very skilled old saddler: my friends and I went to him for our belts. He would make them to measure while we waited, much more cheaply than the shop prices. Would that have been the one down in Stranton which had a life size model of a horse in the window?. If so he closed down some years back. You should go for it, I just followed the guy in the saddle makers video's advice on making a paper pattern and it really was very easy. I also watched a video of a really pro guy making memory foam padded straps which I also learned from. He was selling his for £200 a throw. Mine cost me around £35-40 for the materials and the priceless satisfaction of a job well done and I also got the modified extra strap out of the cut offs so all in all, well chuffed.
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Post by Leftee on Sept 23, 2021 12:46:15 GMT -5
There are some really cool things in this thread.
I forgot one. I roast our coffee.
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Post by hilltop87 on Sept 23, 2021 13:07:18 GMT -5
Tennis Bike Riding Reading Bird Watching (just started this hobby)
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Post by hushnel on Sept 23, 2021 13:09:36 GMT -5
Man, you guys have talent, beautiful leather work.
“Hobby: an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure.”
If I strictly considered this definition I’d have to say none are hobbys. “Regularly”, not hardly, other than play the guitar or bass, all my “time” is leisure time, for “pleasure” humm really not part of the equation, though it often occurs as the project takes shape.
Most of the tools, techniques, and inspiration is driven by curiosity, if I can make a thing . Much of the time I’ll look at a item and it’s price and decide I could do better. Or often I am interested in how its done and have to give it a try to see if I got it right, cooking for instance.
Mom used to tell stories about me, that before I could walk I was testing the function of stuff, if I couldn’t figure out how it was doing what it was doing I’d start taking it apart.
In the public schools system I excelled at the hands on stuff the crafty crap, I would do it two or three times to be satisfied with the results. I took every shop class, minus the automotive stuff. Don’t know why that is, just never been curious of automotive stuff, it seemed so greasy and bulky. Wood shop, metal shop, electronics, print shop. I took pottery classed. They wouldn’t allow me to take Home economics, they thought I was interested in the girls, it wasn’t the only reason.
I think a big part of it is the challenge. If it’s too easy I loose interest, though some of this is just so functional that I will add it to my skill set, and from time to time do it. Like making paper, not a lot of reasons for making it but occasionally I will. Makes for a great demonstration. I spent a year learning how and practicing making ships in bottles. I haven't made one since. I just wanted to know how they were done and if I could do it. I practiced until I got it, then never did another. Thought I may if the inspiration returns
I like stuff that I make, using the stuff I make, even when it may be inferior to a mass produced item, it gives me joy.
I kind limit myself to wood, metal, leather, plastics, glass, ceramics, fibers, cloth. I’ve learned how to felt, sew, weave, spin the fibers from raw wool or cotton. It’s cool when some one notice my felted hat, and I can tell them I made it, its obvious to some, others just think it’s cool.
A side affect is it’s an ice breaker too, I was with a friend a couple of years back, he was looking for a new hat and I was tagging along, these were all hand made, the maker kept staring at me. I wasn’t thinking about my hat but he was. My buddy knew I made my hat and kept asking me what I thought of this one or that one, I was mostly concerned with function for it’s purpose and historical correctness, the quality was the best. When he was ready to pay for it the milliner questioned me about my hat, I told him it was my first attempt a few years back and I handed it to him. It had obvious flaws, the guy liked it, though he didn’t point out the flaws, he knew he didn’t have to. He appreciated I attempted the project and said it was excellent in it’s historical context, he gathered much of this from my discussion of hat selection with my friend.
It’s not so much the need of a thing as it is how it’s done
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Post by k9bigdog on Sept 24, 2021 8:18:42 GMT -5
I have a lot of interests, too. Aside from music, my main things are hunting and shooting, especially upland bird hunting right now with my dog but I also do my share of big game hunting. Been getting into sporting clays a bit lately, though I'm not sure if I'm ready to dive into the deep end of that and get a shotgun just for that purpose. I reload too, but usually only when I need hunting ammo. I probably will start loading shotshells if I can ever get my hands on the components. Also big into fishing, especially flyfishing and fly tying. I like saltwater fishing too, but mostly I'm into trout fishing. On top of all that I like to cook, especially BBQ and wild game, as well as Italian, and my cousin and I are in the planning stages of trying to publish a cookbook based on the family recipes and other food from our families home region of Campania. Into winemaking as well, and usually make a big batch about every two years. I'm also very active in The Sons of The American Legion and spend a lot of time at our local post assisting veterans wherever I can.
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Post by LeftyMeister on Sept 24, 2021 8:25:16 GMT -5
Saltyseadog, thanks for the pics. I was hoping for more everyone.
The variety of hobbies/interests here illustrates the depth of creativity in this crowd.
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Post by hushnel on Sept 24, 2021 10:42:28 GMT -5
My photo hosting does’t do embedding at my coin level but I can link the photo or albums via URL, you can click on any image for a better view, this is a partial collection, most of the stuff I make doesn’t get photographed. “Water Colors” www.flickr.com/gp/40366329@N06/3900N8 “Knives and sheaths” www.flickr.com/gp/40366329@N06/9x9PC6“Instrument projects” some instruments in the album I didn’t make most I did. You should be able to figure it out www.flickr.com/gp/40366329@N06/9x9PC6“Sewing machines I’ve repaired and restored, the keepers www.flickr.com/gp/40366329@N06/223dJ4“Fiber Arts, including the felted hat I mentioned above” Sewing machines I’ve repaired and restored, the keepers www.flickr.com/gp/40366329@N06/01nB94“An over view of of miscellaneous projects, some are copies of items from the above albums, Geno has the coolest knife I made and is pictured in the album” some of my leather work too. www.flickr.com/gp/40366329@N06/5863Vg“Social events, some family but all photos of friends and family doing what we like to do.” www.flickr.com/gp/40366329@N06/I’ve started a new type of craft, like this week, that utilized a couple of the skills I’ve taken up. My niece’s twins are going to see their second Christmas this year, you may recall I made them quilts last Christmas, this year I’m learning how to make rag dolls, similar to historical/vintage Raggedy Ann. No pictures yet, I’ll add them to the fiber arts album linked above. I’m still in the learning stages, the actual Christmas gifts have not started. This was a family thing, my mothers sister, Aunt Elvira, used to make the Raggedy Ann dolls for all the new girls born into the family, this will be like the 4th generation. I hope to be able to pull it off, I’ve given myself plenty of time fo figure it all out. My pattern was publish in the mid 60s.
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Post by saltyseadog on Sept 24, 2021 10:52:49 GMT -5
Wow, just absolutely amazing quality in your work Mike. Like I said in my post my wife calls me a Jack of all Trades but you sir are a master. I noticed a few of my countrymen tossing cabers and playing bagpipes in your photo's as well.
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Post by LeftyMeister on Sept 24, 2021 11:02:32 GMT -5
Hushnel, very impressive! You're a true craftsman.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Sept 24, 2021 11:53:30 GMT -5
I've never made a list because I cannot focus my energies on one or two primary hobbies. Or 12 or 25. It is out of control, and that's exactly how I like it. If I get to use tools to make or repair something, I am happier than a pig in a cool mud hole on a sunny day. I guess tools are my primary hobby...and I have lots of 'em. My dad grew up on a farm and he taught me from a very young age that being self-sufficient is a way of life. If you don't know how--learn how.
I like making stuff from wood, metal, plastic...it's a long list. I've built docks, decks, houses, furniture, guitars and amps. I can do plumbing, electrical, HVAC, welding, concrete, sheetrock, flooring, block and brick work, roofing and siding, hydraulics, pneumatics, and electronics. If it runs on gas, diesel or propane I can usually fix it. I can operate a forklift, tractor, backhoe, excavator, and dozer.
All these skills have not made of particularly rich, but they've saved me money over the years and I've probably spent as much on them as I've saved, but that's not the point. It is all fun for me. I'm no master at any of them but I can tool my way out of a paper bag and that's what's important to me. The guys in my neighborhood that don't know me by name know me as The Guy With the Garage.
I also like bicycling, flying big powerful kites, shooting sports, traditional archery, and golf. Drawing and painting. Ceramics and sculpture.
I could sit here for hours adding to this list. It's a disease.
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Post by hushnel on Sept 24, 2021 12:20:40 GMT -5
I appreciate the compliments, I have spent a lot of my time learning tools and the challenges that materials present. I was born with the curiosity of how things were made and the evolution of stuff. The PBS program called Connections was my all time favorite program. I even studied this history of technology at the University of Pittsburgh.
This interest or maybe gift has made my life easier, maybe it’s just luck. I’m sure I’ve mentioned this story in the past. I fell of a Baptist church roof working construction for a Pre-stressed concrete company, by way of a friend that lived a few trailers down from me, the fall broke my lower lumbar. At the time I was working two jobs, one at a grill in a steak house and the other the food manager at the Bodega, which just ment I cooked everything, it was a high end wine/steak restaurant, plus I was often playing in a band three nights a week in Coral Gables and Coconut Grove.
After six months and rehabilitation, I got a call from Workmans comp, they wanted me tested to help them determine what my next career would be, what I was physically capable of and were my skills and interests were strongest, they told me they would cover any education costs I may need and any discrepancies in wage difference would also be covered. After a week a the rehab center of Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, I was asked to come back on Monday. Their were 12 or so others going through the same testing. I was the only one for that Monday and Tuesday. The test were a lot different, more hands on stuff and following instructions in various media, print, video, slide show etc. That Tuesday when the testing was complete I was asked into the office, by Don, the head of rehab, he said sit down, then told me they may have a job for me here at Jackson Memorial Hospital, as a Bio-Medical Tech. I had no idea what that job was but it sounded pretty good. I mentioned this to Don. He told me it was testing, maintaining and repairing medical and life support equipment. OK, cool sounded interesting. 30 years later I retired with a State of Florida Pension. Not a single patient suffered any harm or death caused by the equipment I worked on, which was primarily ventilators, anesthesia ventilators and monitoring devices. I barely graduated highschool with 1.8 GPA.
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Post by Taildragger on Sept 24, 2021 14:56:13 GMT -5
Growing vegetables (pole beans, above)
Woodworking
Mountain biking...
...sometimes in Utah...
...pretty intensely into this during the 1990s, riding 50-75 miles per week,
but not that much over the past few years (warm-up circuit @ Slick Rock, Moab above)
Surfing several times a week from age 12 into my late 60s, less frequently now.
Have also done a lot of artwork (mostly pen & ink drawings and silkscreen prints)
quite some time ago and worked on cars and ridden motorcycles but not recently.
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Post by Taildragger on Sept 24, 2021 15:09:43 GMT -5
Oh yeah: helping to raise a couple of kids in partnership with the wifey.
Does that count as a "hobby"?
It sure filled much of my spare time for 15 or 20 years...
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Sept 24, 2021 15:17:24 GMT -5
When I saw that pic, I expected to read, "mining," and thought, "holy CATS, that Taildragger is one motivated MOFO!"
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Post by Taildragger on Sept 24, 2021 15:23:55 GMT -5
My understanding is that a lot of those dirt roads in southeastern Utah are, in fact, left over from played-out mining operations.
That switchback does look kinda like an open-pit mine, doesn't it? But it was just a way to get down the cliff face.
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Post by hushnel on Sept 25, 2021 9:23:25 GMT -5
That’s a beautiful part of the country. It’s only been the last couple of years that I’ve been able to visit these states, Utah, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona. I’ve been all over Europe, live in England and Germany for 8 years of my life. Spent the rest of it on the Eastern seaboard of the US. From NYC to Homestead FL.
A friend an I have been spending 4 to 6 weeks the last couple of years visiting these areas in her RV. This up coming Spring we’ll be heading to the Pacific coast to visit the ancient sequoia forest, they have been on the bucket list for a while. I spent a week in Carlsbad CA for training certification on a high frequency ventilator. We’ll Probably spend a week in that aria, I’d like to see part of the coastal highway, I’ve read that it’s a it of a challenge in an RV. We plan for a few destinations but mostly we meander on the back roads, avoiding the super slabs and interstates.
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Post by Davywhizz on Sept 25, 2021 11:12:41 GMT -5
Inspired purely by this thread, today I signed up for a one day teaching workshop on leather belt making, early in 2022.
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Post by Taildragger on Sept 25, 2021 11:34:14 GMT -5
"That’s a beautiful part of the country. It’s only been the last couple of years that I’ve been able to visit these states, Utah, Nevada, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona."
Some think the desert is barren and dull, but if you give yourself a few days to re-calibrate, you start seeing it with different eyes.
We used to try to hit the weather window between winter cold and summer heat, usually late April to mid May: after the last snows but before it got unbearably hot. Temperatures during our trips generally were in the 70s and 80s during the day, though it would get chilly at night (that's the desert for ya). Bryce, Zion, Red Canyon, Canyonlands, Dead Horse Point, Capitol Reef, Arches and Escalante are all very interesting places but there are also a number of lesser-known areas that are worth searching out.
If you're wandering around southeastern Utah, it's worth the effort to take a side trip into southwestern Colorado to Cortez to see Mesa Verde.
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Post by hushnel on Sept 25, 2021 14:00:16 GMT -5
I’m pretty sure we went to Mesa Verde. Val could tell me, she writes everything down. She’s also a great navigator, and pays for the fuel. I cover the cost of camp sites, though she’ll kick in if it’s more than $65 a night. I do all the driving, she freaks out a little when I parallel park her RV.
We have a lot in common for opposites, born the same year, she does fiber arts. We meet at the state park, 6 or 7 years ago, both demonstrating in the craft village. Bill her husband was still with us. A great guy with stories of WWII. A real car guy, he had a Mini Cooper and a gull Wing Mercedes’s, had an airplane and worked at Boeing in engineering and design, before I met him. We are at the opposite ends of the economic spectrum. Not that I’m at the bottom but I did punch a time clock my whole life. He knew Astronauts and politicians, I know Space Shuttle mechanic’s and a few formula 1 race car drivers “o). We do a lot of junking, hitting dusty antique & junk stores. I’m not the kind of person she has previously spent much time with, I’m fairly irreverent in my sense of humor and will engage any one in conversation like they are an old friend. That’s the Air-force Brat coming out, quick friendships and plenty of them. Val will stand back and watch me engage total strangers, she says I test people, I’m not sure what she means by that. I do talk to them, engage them in conversation, ask relevant questions about what they do or why they do it that way, kind of break through the ice quickly.
Earlier this year we were in Texas, their was this junk yard that had a welcome sign and indicated OPEN. We turned around to check it out. The guy came out of the house, we were parked at the workshop. He didn’t seem like he was real glad to see us, but he managed to pull it together. We were invited inside his store, Val’s looking at the junk/antiques, I see a lot of rope work, half of this building was closed off with a curtain covering the doorway. I could see that’s were the good stuff was. I asked about it. He said, no that’s closed off, it’s my workshop. OK, I needed to break the ice. Seeing all the hand made rope stuff and horse tack, and his home made rope making machine and fibers, I asked him if he had Ashley’s Book of Knots, he gave me a great smile and said yeah he had two of them. The discussion progressed, then he wanted to show me some of other projects and took us behind the curtain. I mean it wasn’t my plan, I just wanted to get this guy talking with me. Val purchased something from behind that curtain that Was included in a purchased along with some other stuff. As a craftsman myself I don’t often present myself as that, I see and understand what another is doing, my questions are to the heart of the projects, not the simple questions from those that know little about the project. being a craftsman, of some skill, I can usually get to the meat of the project, the uninitiated ask what are you doing/working on, I can figure that out, my question would focus on the technique or some aspect of technique or material, maybe the history or inspiration of the craft if it’s not immediately obvious.
Ya know, now that I’m thinking about it, getting a look behind the curtain, engaging others just may be my hobby.
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Post by Larry Madsen on Sept 28, 2021 10:45:20 GMT -5
Sitting here on my day off. You all have some great stuff going on out there! Looking at the thread here and scrolling through Flickr. Hey pictures or it didn't happen ... right? Link to a prior thread on the making of my Music Room. moestavern.freeforums.net/thread/4304/recording-music-roomThis is a near 300 sq ft storage room which came to be as a by-product of the 6.5 year long home remodel. DSC_0043 by Larry Madsen, on Flickr Front yard desert terrace theme. This terrace landscape was created using the soil removed while digging footings and grading for slabs on the remodel project. I figured I had paid good money for the dirt when I purchased the house/property and I was not about to toss it away as trash. Not to mention Queenie really like the terrace look DSC_1754 by Larry Madsen, on Flickr I mentioned making boxes. here is the all inclusive "Chain saw" box. DSC_1979 by Larry Madsen, on Flickr 460 w/Toploader 4 speed. This is one of the engines i built ... this one for my Mach1. I build all my own engines 460 and top loader suspended 1 by Larry Madsen, on Flickr The strap assortment I still have most of these. DSC_1679 by Larry Madsen, on Flickr The 1967 Camaro (not a factory SS350) DSC_1377 by Larry Madsen, on Flickr Front sight has been a long time diversion for me. This is a perfect score on the basic skills test. The hit pattern looks pretty spread out, but keep in mind the shots are all timed and shot on turning targets. A shot taken as the target is turning away will leave the possibility of a dead center trigger break impacting the paper to the side. I'm not saying I never go off center, just pointing out the reality of the test. You also notice there is no bullseye. It's purely center mass judgement aim point. The head box is abut 3"X4". Zero Down spotted_LI by Larry Madsen, on Flickr The test is quite difficult for any average Joe with above average skills. Zero down is quite uncommon. I've managed it only twice. Dang, I need to get back out there.
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Post by LeftyMeister on Sept 28, 2021 11:05:53 GMT -5
Dang! You're a busy man. Kudos!
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Sept 28, 2021 14:02:04 GMT -5
I've never made a list because I cannot focus my energies on one or two primary hobbies. Or 12 or 25. It is out of control, and that's exactly how I like it. If I get to use tools to make or repair something, I am happier than a pig in a cool mud hole on a sunny day. I guess tools are my primary hobby...and I have lots of 'em. My dad grew up on a farm and he taught me from a very young age that being self-sufficient is a way of life. If you don't know how--learn how. I like making stuff from wood, metal, plastic...it's a long list. I've built docks, decks, houses, furniture, guitars and amps. I can do plumbing, electrical, HVAC, welding, concrete, sheetrock, flooring, block and brick work, roofing and siding, hydraulics, pneumatics, and electronics. If it runs on gas, diesel or propane I can usually fix it. I can operate a forklift, tractor, backhoe, excavator, and dozer. All these skills have not made of particularly rich, but they've saved me money over the years and I've probably spent as much on them as I've saved, but that's not the point. It is all fun for me. I'm no master at any of them but I can tool my way out of a paper bag and that's what's important to me. The guys in my neighborhood that don't know me by name know me as The Guy With the Garage. I also like bicycling, flying big powerful kites, shooting sports, traditional archery, and golf. Drawing and painting. Ceramics and sculpture. I could sit here for hours adding to this list. It's a disease. If you want to see a picture of Peegoo, look up "Stud" in the dictionary....
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Post by Seldom Seen on Sept 28, 2021 17:31:49 GMT -5
Fly fishing, hunting, and the odd antique sale.
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Post by LTB on Sept 29, 2021 2:43:37 GMT -5
Spending time with family Working on my spiritual health (reading and watching Christ centered things) Bicycle Riding Going to shooting range. Getting in car and going for peaceful drive in the country
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