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  • Golfguy77
    Golfguy77 Posts: 93
    Golf.  Don't even know what I've spent in the last 25 years.  Every penny spent was worth it to me.
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    edited March 2016
    SGH said:
    @Darby_Crenshaw
    Not trying to be stupid here, but what is the difference in a book and a binding? 

    Good question...  A 'book' is just what you think it is. The pages, cover, etc.

    a book binding is the leather cover which is usually tooled (by hand, with brass stamps and gold leaf). Done properly, it takes most of a week to get the book sewn up and covered in leather (goatskin usually), and can take another week for the tooling. 

    Technically 'binding' refers to the sewing ('to bind') and covering in leather

    I have records from the period which describe some books taking ten days just to do the hand tooling though. And so the tooling is what is really being collected. 


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  • Jeremiah
    Jeremiah Posts: 6,412
    I used to race stock cars, but sold out to go to college. Recently I built a saltwater reef tank, and homebrewing beer as well...
    Slumming it in Aiken, SC. 
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  • hondabbq
    hondabbq Posts: 1,980
    edited March 2016
    Image result for hummer butterI don't have a lot of time especially in summer as I have 2 side bbq related businesses as well as my full time job running a kitchen. 
    I used to golf a lot but not recently for the above mentioned reasons. 
    smoking meat, sausages, bacon, MSM, meat sticks. You name it. 
    I am also am an avid Motley Crüe collector. Not the chochky stuff but the high end collectibles.vall my items have been signed in person as well. I could have easily  paid for @Sea2Ski maintenance package. Lol. 
    Welcome to the CRÜseum. Just a few more pieces and I'm done. Then a couple more things to hang. 
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  • EagleIII
    EagleIII Posts: 418
    Single malt Scotch or a nice Bourbon and cigars.  Usually I look for a way to incorporate those into what I'm Egging at the time.
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  • xfire_ATX
    xfire_ATX Posts: 1,135
    Bikes- got a whole garage full of them- these are the only two I ride with any regularity.  "how many bikes do you need- how many do you have +1"


    Kids Select Sports

    XLBGE, LBGE, Charbroil Gas Grill, Weber Q2000, Old Weber Kettle, Rectec RT-B380, Yeti 65, Yeti Hopper 20, RTIC 20, RTIC 20 Soft Side - Too many drinkware vessels to mention.

    Not quite in Austin, TX City Limits
    Just Vote- What if you could choose "none of the above" on an election ballot? Millions of Americans do just that, in effect, by not voting.  The result in 2016: "Nobody" won more counties, more states, and more electoral votes than either candidate for president. 
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  • spcalan1
    spcalan1 Posts: 11
    Private Pilot certificate since 2012.
    I have roughly 200 hours in fixed wings ( airplane ).. @ $200/hour...


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  • kl8ton
    kl8ton Posts: 5,721
    A wife and 6 home schooled kids

    Large, Medium, MiniMax, 36" Blackstone
    Grand Rapids MI
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  • Mosca
    Mosca Posts: 456
    edited March 2016
    hapster said:
    Photography... 
    Yeah. People who aren't into this don't understand how digital has screwed it all up. There was a time that your body and lenses were immortal, and all the money went into film and developing. Now there is no film, and you can do all your editing on the computer. But every two years your camera itself becomes obsolete, and you have to fight the urge to drop another $2000-$6000 (depending on your tolerance for such a thing) for a new body. Or a new format comes out, like m4/3, and you have to decide if you want to go a completely different direction. And then your manufacturer comes out with a lens that is the exact same length as the one you use that you like best, but yours goes to f/2 and this one goes to f/1.8...

    It's never that you need a new camera, or new lenses, just like you don't need a BGE. But you get caught up in the camera porn, and you like new gadgets, and you start figuring out how to budget for it.
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  • tonyled
    tonyled Posts: 536
    guitars and motorcycles



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  • Mosca
    Mosca Posts: 456
    Begger said:
    I have Curbed my photography bad habit.   Spent a fortune on Canon 'L' glass and '1' series bodies, both film and digital.    Currently have a very portable mirror less and just a few lenses.

    I have yet to come to grips with my STEREO habit.   Large panel speakers, 1 stereo amp PER speaker, separate pre and dac.   And than you have to buy media.   Movies cost a bundle, too.
    I went to m4/3 and it cured me of the full frame madness, and the need to upgrade.

    My stereo habit was cured after I had a long talk with Luke Manley, the owner of Vacuum Tube Logic. Almost the entire talk was about music, not equipment, and how a good stereo should make you happy, not anxious about what might not be right about it. After that I started listening, and I stopped upgrading.
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,401
    edited March 2016
    fishing can get insane, when i was younger i must have been insane or maybe smart enough to buy the best and get to use it for the rest of my life =) i have a few fly reels that if i bought them now would be over 3 k each, ted godfrey walnut sided multipliers, seamaster dual modes, offshore finnors on tournament stand up ian millers. lots of ari t hart reels.  sage, thomsons, winston graphite rods from 3wt midge to 13 wt marlin rods,Lon Blauvelt handmade swelled bamboo midge rods.  float tubes, a few canoes, 12 foot aluminum, 14 foot aluminum, couple kayaks, a 20 foot strip canoe grand laker project, a wooden sebago cruiser type fish and ski project, an eastern lobster boat, house on a lake, lake house house at camp, partial trust on a beach house with my own mooring, maybe 20 k in fly tying material,  then theres the ice fishing gear, polaris 500x2, trailer, maybe 50 traps, nils/tanaka auger, iditerod suit, probably could count the truck in on this, the dog too =) and then theres my bottle cap collection.  like i said earlier, good thing i bought most of this when i was younger, can barely afford the beer and gas nowadays( i can get 20 hours on 3 gallons with the trolling motor). docks in the water, boat goes in saterday for the early season test run. just got to add the down riggers, rod jiggers, overhead flyrod bridge, and the gas and back it in. fishing starts saturday
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    The bottle cap collection was from when you were younger? I would imagine that collection grows by the dozen each weekend.  ;)


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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    Besides ceramic, wok and sous vide cooking, I make a little sawdust and fix things, some that don't need fixing (just curious).  i also play around with photography and create videos to post on YouTube.  I also maintain a few blog sites and generally play on the computer.  I sometimes help my Sweetie with stained glass projects.  I also like to write.  I'm not stuck on one particular thing like golf or fishing or traveling. I just like to respond to the moment and see where it takes me.  So far, I've never been told that I can't do something, so I take that to mean I can do whatever I feel like doing, whether or not I've got the tools or talent to do it.  It's all an adventure to me...

    Spring "What Now" Chicken
    Spring Texas USA


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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,401
    Darby_Crenshaw said:
    The bottle cap collection was from when you were younger? I would imagine that collection grows by the dozen each weekend.  ;)


    not as fast lately, hurt my back this winter and the trash was getting to heavy. changed to tangauray and tonics til i can get the bags up the hill again =) when you said dozen by the weekend, try weeknight ;)
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • stlcharcoal
    stlcharcoal Posts: 4,706
    spcalan1 said:
    Private Pilot certificate since 2012.
    I have roughly 200 hours in fixed wings ( airplane ).. @ $200/hour...


    Same here.......bout 200 hrs.  Got my fixed-wing private add-on in 1999, but haven't flown once since.  Have 3500+ hrs in helicopters - commercial, instrument, CFI/CFII, but haven't flown one in 2 yrs.  A&P/IA certificate has dust all over it too!  Hope to get back into it one day.
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    fishlessman said
    not as fast lately, hurt my back this winter and the trash was getting to heavy. changed to tangauray and tonics til i can get the bags up the hill again =) when you said dozen by the weekend, try weeknight ;)
    Meant to say "dozens" with an S. 

    My dad used to pop the red seal off the Tanqueray bottles and stick them inside his shed door. Damn near filled it with then
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  • nolabrew
    nolabrew Posts: 246
    stlcharcoal said:
    Guns, pinball machines, guns, DeLoreans, guns, helicopters, etc.....all of which I never get to play with because I have four little kids.

    Please buy more charcoal.  =)
    If you ever make it down to Nola you'll have to check out my secret pinball club.  We've got like 70 pinball machines in an old church. 
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,401
    heres one of my favorite setups, walnut godfrey malleo on Lon Blauvelt handmade swelled bamboo 3 wt midge rod. atlantic salmon, my house is just over my left shoulder sitting 4 feet from the waters edge. i guess my biggest hobby is really just sitting or standing in front or on the water, the rest is so i dont look so stupid doing it =)

    image


    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,401
    Darby_Crenshaw said:
    fishlessman said
    not as fast lately, hurt my back this winter and the trash was getting to heavy. changed to tangauray and tonics til i can get the bags up the hill again =) when you said dozen by the weekend, try weeknight ;)
    Meant to say "dozens" with an S. 

    My dad used to pop the red seal off the Tanqueray bottles and stick them inside his shed door. Damn near filled it with then
    a new hobby.  was wondering what to do during a midlife crises
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Griffin
    Griffin Posts: 8,200

    The only hobby I've been actively doing lately is brewing beer and I need to stop or have a party as I've got way too much sitting around right now.

    Used to be into RC cars and guns, but my main hobby right now is my son.

    Rowlett, Texas

    Griffin's Grub or you can find me on Facebook

    The Supreme Potentate, Sovereign Commander and Sultan of Wings

     

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  • kl8ton
    kl8ton Posts: 5,721
    @Griffin

    Too bad you are in Texas.  Otherwise i would love to help you out with your surplus inventory.
    Large, Medium, MiniMax, 36" Blackstone
    Grand Rapids MI
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  • spcalan1
    spcalan1 Posts: 11
    stlcharcoal said:
    spcalan1 said:
    Private Pilot certificate since 2012.
    I have roughly 200 hours in fixed wings ( airplane ).. @ $200/hour...


    Same here.......bout 200 hrs.  Got my fixed-wing private add-on in 1999, but haven't flown once since.  Have 3500+ hrs in helicopters - commercial, instrument, CFI/CFII, but haven't flown one in 2 yrs.  A&P/IA certificate has dust all over it too!  Hope to get back into it one day.
    Very nice.
    I am thinking about getting my rotor wing add-on just for bragging rights.
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  • stlcharcoal
    stlcharcoal Posts: 4,706
    spcalan1 said:
    stlcharcoal said:
    spcalan1 said:
    Private Pilot certificate since 2012.
    I have roughly 200 hours in fixed wings ( airplane ).. @ $200/hour...


    Same here.......bout 200 hrs.  Got my fixed-wing private add-on in 1999, but haven't flown once since.  Have 3500+ hrs in helicopters - commercial, instrument, CFI/CFII, but haven't flown one in 2 yrs.  A&P/IA certificate has dust all over it too!  Hope to get back into it one day.
    Very nice.
    I am thinking about getting my rotor wing add-on just for bragging rights.

    Well, you'll know how to work the radio then.  Get ready to have your azz handed to you on everything else.  Funniest thing was the 10K+ hr airline guys coming in and thinking they were going to add a rotorcraft category rating like they did a seaplane class rating.  That's something I really would like to do on a weeks vacation in FL or MN--get a seaplane rating.  Seems like a blast.

    nolabrew said:
    stlcharcoal said:
    Guns, pinball machines, guns, DeLoreans, guns, helicopters, etc.....all of which I never get to play with because I have four little kids.

    Please buy more charcoal.  =)
    If you ever make it down to Nola you'll have to check out my secret pinball club.  We've got like 70 pinball machines in an old church. 

    Damn!!!  I was there last week.  Probably would not have had time anyway but thanks for the heads up.  I've been to the Pinabll Hall of Fame in Las Vegas many times.....100+ machines there.  There are two 75+ machine private collections here in STL that I've been to as well.  I have my three favorite machines--might add a fourth some day. 
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  • tarheelmatt
    tarheelmatt Posts: 9,867
    JethroVA said:
    Boating, salt water fishing, raising my own oysters. 
    Ahhh... You're coming to Butt Blast with these jewels, right? 
    ------------------------------
    Thomasville, NC
    My YouTube Channel - The Hungry Hussey
    Instagram
    Facebook
    My Photography Site
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  • fence0407
    fence0407 Posts: 2,242
    Guitars, guns, golf and grilling. Maybe need another hobby that doesn't start with a G.
    Large - Mini - Blackstone 17", 28", 36"
    Cumming, GA  

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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,023
    JethroVA said:
    Boating, salt water fishing, raising my own oysters. 
    I had no idea about oyster farming like that. Here's an article if others are curious.
    http://www.ssentinel.com/index.php/rivah/article/raising_backyard_oysters/
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  • blasting
    blasting Posts: 6,262

    A 55 foot ocean going cabin cruiser would have been nice, but in the end I opted instead for a 12 year long custody battle. 


    Phoenix 
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