Does anyone else have any really strange hobbies?

Tinhorn3 · Nov 6, 2021

my name was my CB name,

TINNY meant sound weak and a little metallic or vaguely unpleasant and objects are poorly constructed, cheap etc

& speaker is sometimes called a Horn so TinHorn is my name LOL

maxxkatt · Nov 10, 2021

Used to listen to Shortwave - (ham and Int broadcast)

Had an Icom IC-71A but sold it 3 weeks ago along with my Nox 800 to get a CTX3030.

Love the CTX3030.

SW listening is not what it used to be. All international broadcast is mostly over compared back to the 50's - 60's.

Listening to hams used to be fun, lot of good technical knowledge. But now most just chime in on the net, report their weather, how bad they are feeling and what they are going to eat for dinner. Waste of time.

Gone are all the state owned broadcasting radio stations.

aaronc · Dec 5, 2021

Albatrosdva said:
Ok, well in my introduction I mentioned I had studied flintlock era firearms for a number of years. I've always been a strong believer in collecting on a budget. That being said, I like to buy projects and restore them instead of spending top dollar for something and then being afraid to play with it after.

My latest project I am working on is a Dutch musket, ca 1740s. It really just came to me as a stock with an incorrect barrel. It has the brass butt plate, and that's it. But it is an original almost full length stock so it seems worth restoring to me. So I started making the side plate.

You'll notice that the original cut out was badly filled in and a different style side plate was put in at one point. I'm putting it back the way it should be.

I've posted some before,..but one of my main things is scrimshaw,..or various bone and antler projects. I do a pen and ink on rare occasion as well. Here is some recent scrimshaw pics and a euro I did for a friend of mine. The deer was a flintlock kill.

aaronc · Dec 5, 2021

jimther · Dec 8, 2021

aaronc said:
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BEAUTIFUL scrimshaw work aaronc!!!

amc rulz · Dec 9, 2021

Very nice scrim and European mount!

zeemang · Dec 9, 2021

Amazing scrimshaw work. Copying the exact font from the map just makes it all the better, great job!

Tinhorn3 · Dec 9, 2021

I'd like to see a pix of your Muzzle Loader(s)

your scrimshaw is really good

aaronc · Dec 9, 2021

amc rulz said:
Very nice scrim and European mount!

Thank you,.

zeemang said:
Amazing scrimshaw work. Copying the exact font from the map just makes it all the better, great job!

Thanks Z,..everything is hand to eye,..no carbon paper or anything used. Just sketched from reference

Tinhorn3 said:
I'd like to see a pix of your Muzzle Loader(s)

your scrimshaw is really good

I only have one flinter,..I'll post it up for ya soon.

jimther said:
BEAUTIFUL scrimshaw work aaronc!!!

Thank you,.much appreciated.

oldkoot · Dec 25, 2021

If you call being a banjo player strange then I guess I have a strange hobby LOL i also build gourd banjos.

DanU · Dec 26, 2021

Sometimes I miss the old CB & Ham days. I have been working on our genealogy for the last 20 years. I am also a seahorse breeder. Eventually want to retire on a sailboat. Lots of places to take a detector to!

Metal detecto · Dec 31, 2021

Custom Mechanical keyboards. My hobbies are REALLY fickle and have nothing related to each other at all :laughing:

If anyone is wondering what a mechanical keyboard is, it's just a really expensive keyboard, period.

KingTotsalot · Jan 9, 2022

KT has a long term peculiar hobby, not related to CRHing, coin collecting, etc.

His Majesty’s home town happens to also be a National Park…Hot Springs National Park…and has existed as an internationally known spa for well over 100 years. KT had been collecting postcards from the area for several years, before getting interested in MDing and CRHing. In the early days of eBay, many could be purchased for ~$1 each, but nowadays the price is often over $5 or more each. KT acquired over 1200 individually different PCs from the National Park, varying from pre-postcards to hand colored photographic cards to lithographed cards, these span the time from the 1890s up through the late 1950s, when actual photo post cards appeared. KT is not interested in those newer cards from the past 70 years. KT knows of one collector who lives in Hot Springs whose collection is larger…nearing 2000 individual cards. KT plans to donate this collection to the TriCounty Library, based in Hot Springs, when He decides to dispose of them. They are a nice pictorial history of Hot Springs over that ~70 year period or perhaps the Garland County Historical Society.

Silversmith45 · Jan 9, 2022

Hobbies

Silversmith was my CB name. I think the most distance that I ever talked to anyone was a man in a plane flying over new Mexico. As for current hobbies I tried writing a book. I guess it could be broken down into several books. I did it during my free time at work. To tell the truth i don't remember writing most of it. It is the only one I have ever written and I find myself reading it time and time again. I find it more interesting that ones out there. I doubt if anything will ever become of it. Somewhere I have lost part of a chapter and I don't know what happened to it.

NorthwestrnWIMD · Jan 10, 2022

I do 3d printing for an extra hobby. Comes in useful to make 3d printed parts for other hobbies and some metal detecting accessories.

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Pete E. · Jan 15, 2022

Vintage Typewriters...

I started picking up old and many times broken (or otherwise non-working) vintage manual typewriters made in the 1950's through the 1960's.

I clean them up, service and repair them, and sometimes restore them if paint needs it.

Lots of time I need to pick up a 2nd. machine for parts to get the 1st. machine back on the road.

I even take the time to refurbish the typerwriter cases, too.

Last count over the past Holidays...have 34 of them in my collection. Here is a photo of just a few of them.

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amc rulz · Jan 15, 2022

@Pete E - they look great, nice collection.

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