Show us your "other" hobbies in pictures!

[PORSCHE928S4]

Owning a boat and being my sons dirt bike mechanic takes a lot of my extra cash !

 

[72scoutman]

Owning a boat and being my sons dirt bike mechanic takes a lot of my extra cash !

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My advice, make the kid learn it if he wants to ride. My 14yo lives for the dirt bikes, I made it very clear before HE bought the first one. I am not your mechanic, you want to ride it drive it or whatever you work on it and learn how it works. Hes done a top end on his CR85, a top end on his KTM 125SX and currently has his brother's (not my kid) CR80 blown apart all over my shop. I give him advice, help him with the technical stuff but do not do it for him. They are his bikes bought with his money, he buys his parts as well. Actually not 10minutes ago he finally got the old Stihl 031 running, hes been working on it for a week now. I haven't been out there yet to figure out what he found but I hear that hes got it going. Yeah I probably could have had it going in an hour or two but hes learning the same way I had too....the best way in my opinion.

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

My advice, make the kid learn it if he wants to ride. My 14yo lives for the dirt bikes, I made it very clear before HE bought the first one. I am not your mechanic, you want to ride it drive it or whatever you work on it and learn how it works. Hes done a top end on his CR85, a top end on his KTM 125SX and currently has his brother's (not my kid) CR80 blown apart all over my shop. I give him advice, help him with the technical stuff but do not do it for him. They are his bikes bought with his money, he buys his parts as well. Actually not 10minutes ago he finally got the old Stihl 031 running, hes been working on it for a week now. I haven't been out there yet to figure out what he found but I hear that hes got it going. Yeah I probably could have had it going in an hour or two but hes learning the same way I had too....the best way in my opinion.

he kept ruining reels finally he purchased his own Avet

 

[Ura-Ki]

he kept ruining reels finally he purchased his own Avet

Loves me some Avet reels! As good as the Peen reels I was using were, those Avets are pretty bomb proof!

 

[PORSCHE928S4]

Loves me some Avet reels! As good as the Peen reels I was using were, those Avets are pretty bomb proof!

They are a work of art and you get one and all of the sudden there are 10 ! I have some Penn Internationals as well and they bring in the tuna for the size the Avet is a beast .

 

[FreedomPI]

I have to many knives, (got to sell some) I thought if I get some sheaths for these possibly people will buy them. I got a couple on-line, about 28 bucks with shipping, they were junk. I made a friend who is a saddle maker, Joe, long story great guy and a master leather worker. I showed Joe my crappy sheaths and asked "Joe can I do better than this" he gave me a long leather lesson, some old tools, and a bunch of scrap leather. I have been making sheaths like this and some phone cases about 3 months now. Sit around with my wife watching some stupid tv show that would normally just make me mad and focus on hand sewing leather. Hobby, saved me from being mad at the woke tv shows.

 

[Phred]

FredomPl,
You sure caught on to that fast. Good job.Gold star for you.

 

[Hooyah DeepSea]

I miss the old days, of Tandy Leather, and all their kits. I did one of theirs for a Colt 1911 holster and it worked out great. Sure wish they were still around, along with Radio Shack, a 'sister' company.

 

[made in china]

Tandy did leather? Wow....

Back in the 80's my Mom was in to dating prisoners. I remember getting lots of handmade leather gifts....

 

[Vierings]

Defy reason and keep one of these things in the air.

 

[made in china]

I recently got real ambitious and decided to restore all of my vintage stereo equipment. I have an old cassette deck, turntable, 3 stereo receivers to do, here's what restoring one looks like on the bench getting it's guts replaced and recalibrated:


Here's how this one looks when completed:


That one is the "newest" model, made in 1981, that most people will bother with. After these, most equipment began a transition to cheapness.

 

[sobo]

Love this...
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[DukkButt]

3D printer. VERY fussy toy but so much fun.

 

[Woodwreck]

Fishing and wood working.

 

[Tilos]

Fishing and wood working.

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I used to put my watch for scale in pics of fish.
Confessing to doing that pretty much says I am a geezer.
No one wears a watch today...


Well, maybe that guy^
I got banned on another forum for posting that pic...must have been an old fart mod.

 

[ernhrtus]

I have a laser engraver and I make custom knives for my other hobbies. Not to mention classic Celica addiction too.

 

[72scoutman]

January 29th @ TSF

My youngest where he decided to take a mid trail break. It was a slick day but we had a good time.

 

[Jay Walk]

Our group has been clearing hundreds of blow down trees annually near mt st helens since 2008
200 plus miles of trail.

 

[d500lnn]

Shooting, dirt bike racing and cheer for my daughter!

 

[Phred]

d500lnn,
Hey neighbor. You're a rifle shot away from Road Atlanta, where I raced at in 1978. It was a bit of a trip to get there, 2800 miles from Gresham, OR.