What other hobbies?

Yessir, hammer and anvil, charcoal forge, grinders, drill press and band saw.

(making a different knife some years ago)


An old overall view of the forge... It's changed a bit since:



I've been playing at smithing since 2005, making a few objects a year when the time and mood coincide. It can be strangely "zen".

That's quite a jingle - Imagine the lawsuits if a knife company used it today!

J

pretty cool!

Three years ago i discovered the sport of disc golfing, probably twenty years to late (it hard to compete with kids half your age) but after three years of playing every chance i get, i can keep from embarrassing myself with all but the best of them.
The local high school contacted me to help them design a small course for the property.

I've sold some of my Cox stuff to fund my new hobby, SHOTGUNS.  Got this bullpup conversion kit for a Mossberg 500.
You drop in the Mossberg receiver, mag tube and barrel with no mods and your ready to go. With a 20" barrel and mag tube I got 8+1  capacity.
The whole thing is 28" long, not much good for anything but home defense, but should rock for that. BooooooUUUUYYYYaaaaaaa!!!
If you don't like it the whole deal can be reversed, and put the donor gun back like it was.

I am playing tennis with my colleagues - some are many years younger than I at 56- ...I often tease them saying they are just too slow and late by 25 or so years when they shoot a fast return to me...they should have shot me like that 25 years earlier and I would have for sure returned that instead of missing.

Also biking in the summer..we have a lovely lake here in Hungary, called Balaton. We bike around it on one day with buddies every summer, the circumference is 204 km-s, my best time is 13 hours (stops for beers and bites and johns included). Have a small Laser sailboat too..before I returned to flying COX planes 5 years ago, sailing on lake Balaton was the perfect relaxation to vent my mind out of the hectic business I do for a living. Today I fly COX R/C birds much more frequently than sail. A very lonely but even more relaxing hobby. So apart from flying COX birds, I am also flying COX birds...back to square zero.

Restoring vintage bicycles.

Here is my '83 Centurion Turbo with 650B conversion wheels:


Matching Bridgestone MB-5's belonging to my wife and I:


Jim

Guns.  

Motorcycles.  

Linux.  

'Nuff Said.

Fixin' up old stuff.

1942 ALCON pump with JAP 2A engine.  All English.  Was a total basket case when I got it.  Runs and pumps beautifully.
Rod.

JPvelo wrote:Restoring vintage bicycles.

Here is my '83 Centurion Turbo with 650B conversion wheels:


Matching Bridgestone MB-5's belonging to my wife and I:


Jim

DITTO!


Also, have a Bridgstone RB-2

I used to fly competition aerobatics and air racing with these two Pitts Specials.

Now it's more like Classic Pattern R/C ships from my favorite era, the 70's and 80's.

Forgetful John wrote:Guns.  

Motorcycles.  

Linux.  

'Nuff Said.

Yep, you covered most of mine too. Just add windsurfing in there, but I'm becoming a little too decrepit for that now.

I've been one of the lucky ones to still have my first car, an MGB. Now another sports car project so I can keep up with my doctor and lawyer friends in their super cars, a Jamaican which is an '57 Austin Healey 100/Six chassis, Camaro (I think) 327 with Muncie 4 speed, under a Fiberfab Jamaican body (those kits sold in the 60's out of California). I'll start on the Jamaican resto this winter, right now I just drive it around the airport on it's 1970 Goodyear F78 tires!

Help farm 300 acres with my dad on the weekends.

Mark Boesen wrote:

JPvelo wrote:Restoring vintage bicycles.

Here is my '83 Centurion Turbo with 650B conversion wheels:


Matching Bridgestone MB-5's belonging to my wife and I:


Jim

DITTO!


Also, have a Bridgstone RB-2

Let me know when you're ready to get rid of that RB-2

For one, I do instrument repairs on my own instruments. Here is a 1960's French Beaugnier Vito Baritone Saxophone that I bought on E-Bay 4 years ago for $315 including shipping. It was once on an old high school band instrument that had been battered and repaired many times prior to its retirement. The saving grace with it was it had good pads. Otherwise, it was very tarnished, musty from storage, the racked rods and small finger keys were bent badly out of alignment, pad heights were off so it played very badly out of tune. Here are shots before:


Here are shots after:


It now plays in tune and has become my favorite instrument. Here are some of my other instruments:


I enjoy playing music for others for various charitable venues.



Here I played sax while belling ringing for the Salvation Army.


Best of all I enjoy riding my motorcycle.

Wow, quite a varied group!

I guess y'all could count me in on the vintage bike scene as well - My favourite era being the mid '90's mountain bikes.

Here's my '95 Specialized Stumpjumper M2 FS, which I built up from a frame and fork after the local shop owner had the first summer on it:



She turned 20 this year. Built with a mix of LX (hubs, brake levers) XT (rear der., crankset, cogset, brakes) and XTR (shifters/front der), with 238 rims, Specialized FSX carbon/ti air oil fork and a smattering of other nice bits.

Love that restored pump, old small gasoline utility engines are another love of mine. I really want to find a decent little hit'n'miss flywheel engine to restore some day... A bulldog or something similar would be great!

J

I play some disc-golf and other stuff, but the real interest for me is windsurfing. This picture was in the local newspaper the day before christmas eve, taken on the 22 dec (2013).

I like guns and very large trucks

Kris and Brenda, what variety of diverging interests there are, those photos are really swell, excellent. Brenda, seems you are ready as an "A" Team member, love the Vietnam era Duece and a Half of yours especially with the Cox decal.

I can relate to your bicycle, Jason, as last year I replaced my 1970's store brand Spalding Spade 10 speed all terrain bike (ATB) with a 21 speed aluminum frame Walmart ATB. 21 speeds is an overkill, would have gotten just as much usefulness if it were only 7 speed. Already put a new back tire as I wore it out, added high power LED headlight with 4,400 mAH battery pack for night riding.
Still retained my "soul"   while supervising as a construction project engineer prior to retiring through my sax playing.  

http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-02-23


People get fooled with my Retired Army patch as I also took a non-regular retirement as an Army Reservist.

Let me know when you're ready to get rid of that RB-2 [/quote]


i just might, i bought it used 15 years ago, its was mint, other than needing new tires, now it needs tires again, not from wear...dry rot!

Brenda wrote:I like guns and very large trucks

You guys don't have any very large trucks

Making a smell, a mess and a noise!

Covers most things!