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The Lounge => The Lounge => Topic started by: azslacker on January 06, 2014, 05:17:53 PM
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Is guitars/music your #1 hobby? If not, what is?
I'd say mine is guitars, and ukuleles. My second place is probably a tie between teardrop trailer camping, and beer brewing. Both of which I spend time on other forums.
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What are other hobbies that you speak of... Guitars and only guitars...
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Doc, if I was over there I'd spend a lot of time in the water SUP'n.
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I have sung in a community chorus for 26 years, collected stamps avidly as a preteen and teen (and still keep up with the stamps of Israel, of which I own all but 9 ever issued), am an avid bird watcher and skier, played tennis for 30 years. And I still work 6 days a week. That all being said, guitar playing is #1, and certainly the combination of guitar + music rules.
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I used to crochet, but guitar put a stop to that! I would say after playing the guitar my other hobby would be cooking....if it can be called a hobby. I like to make a lot of things from scratch like bread, yogurt and soup.
My husband and his wife like to brew beer too, Jay. We have to visit all the microbreweries when he comes to town!
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Yeah, cooking and wine tasting need to be included; used to cross stitch samplers also.
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Theatre (performing in musicals) books, bicycling, pets (a Collie and two British Shorthair cats), movies, wine, food...but playing guitar/singing/writing music always come first.
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I was an avid woodworker for years, during which time I dabbled in guitar building but I mostly built small decorative boxes and furniture. I traveled much and brought back wood from the places I visited and worked. Still have a pretty extensive collection of wood for future projects including many species I see on this forum.
I enjoy reading, mostly guilty pleasure fiction of little substance but a few bio's and history topics thrown in for good measure. I also enjoy cooking and have for many years.
Our Australian Shepard is a former search and rescue dog, and although she is getting a little long in the tooth. she helps to keep our two calico cats corralled.
Oh yeah..... then there is the guitar thing.
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My husband and his wife like to brew beer too, Jay.
i didn't know you are in Utah Lizzy ! ;D ;D ;D
i used to love bodybuilding and martial arts.. my body is a bit torn up for that now though. i haven't found a suitable replacement for those yet. i spend a lot of time abroad and have little time to play guitar these days let alone find more hobbies. i still love really fast motorcycles( top recorded speed- 188 mph on 2 wheels) and fun cars but i have slowed down quite a bit as of late.... that's where guitars have come in... like everything else i decide to do.... i tend to go all out with an all or nothing attitude. i'd love to find something more sane but i'm not sure i'm built for that. a few years ago when i was still unable to walk i was miserable as hell... not out of anger or pain, i'm just not very good at sitting still...surprising since my former job was to sit/lay for 12-14 hours or more at a stretch bt that was a lot different, total concentration required.
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My husband and his wife like to brew beer too, Jay.
i didn't know you are in Utah Lizzy ! ;D ;D ;D
i used to love bodybuilding and martial arts.. my body is a bit torn up for that now though. i haven't found a suitable replacement for those yet. i spend a lot of time abroad and have little time to play guitar these days let alone find more hobbies. i still love really fast motorcycles( top recorded speed- 188 mph on 2 wheels) and fun cars but i have slowed down quite a bit as of late.... that's where guitars have come in... like everything else i decide to do.... i tend to go all out with an all or nothing attitude. i'd love to find something more sane but i'm not sure i'm built for that. a few years ago when i was still unable to walk i was miserable as hell... not out of anger or pain, i'm just not very good at sitting still...surprising since my former job was to sit/lay for 12-14 hours or more at a stretch bt that was a lot different, total concentration required.
OMG...people really do pay attention to what I say in my posts. BROTHER and his wife...not husband and his wife. Good grief.
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My husband and his wife like to brew beer too, Jay.
i didn't know you are in Utah Lizzy ! ;D ;D ;D
i used to love bodybuilding and martial arts.. my body is a bit torn up for that now though. i haven't found a suitable replacement for those yet. i spend a lot of time abroad and have little time to play guitar these days let alone find more hobbies. i still love really fast motorcycles( top recorded speed- 188 mph on 2 wheels) and fun cars but i have slowed down quite a bit as of late.... that's where guitars have come in... like everything else i decide to do.... i tend to go all out with an all or nothing attitude. i'd love to find something more sane but i'm not sure i'm built for that. a few years ago when i was still unable to walk i was miserable as hell... not out of anger or pain, i'm just not very good at sitting still...surprising since my former job was to sit/lay for 12-14 hours or more at a stretch bt that was a lot different, total concentration required.
OMG...people really do pay attention to what I say in my posts. BROTHER and his wife...not husband and his wife. Good grief.
That was my first thought too but if he buys you a new guitar now and then who cares
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Making pure maple syrup with my husband....Sweet Liquid Gold!
Music and Maple Syrup are our two #1's.
#2 is traveling the US in the motorhome riding roller coasters with my husband.
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Beyond guitars;
Cycling - I enjoy bike tours that are 400-600 miles, one day 100 milers. Plus mountain biking, I live so close some fantastic mountain trails, it takes me 10 minutes to get to them
Skiing - I live 30 minutes from a ski area. The snow is fantastic right now.
Pheasant hunting. Duck and goose is good to.
Taking trips with the travel trailer, so that I can cycle and play my guitar.
and doing all(except hunt) this with my wonderful wife of 30 years
I also enjoy being here with you all.
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My husband and his wife like to brew beer too, Jay.
i didn't know you are in Utah Lizzy ! ;D ;D ;D
OMG...people really do pay attention to what I say in my posts. BROTHER and his wife...not husband and his wife. Good grief.
i want some of that beer.... might lead me to another "The Blonde" though... can i use you as a character witness in court ?
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My main hobby and my profession is music, but a close runner up is mountain biking. I moved from Chicago to Seattle to be closer to real mountain, nothing like being up in the fresh air on some sweet singletrack.
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Cycling - I enjoy bike tours that are 400-600 miles, one day 100 milers.
Us too. Our favorite ride is DALMAC, which is a tour from Lansing, MI (State capital) to (and over) the Mackinac Bridge. We have done it 6 times.
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Primarily guitar playing and song writing. Time doesn't allow for much more than that. If I were to take up a new hobby it would probably be woodturning, making pens and other small items.
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My husband and his wife like to brew beer too, Jay.
i didn't know you are in Utah Lizzy ! ;D ;D ;D
i used to love bodybuilding and martial arts.. my body is a bit torn up for that now though. i haven't found a suitable replacement for those yet. i spend a lot of time abroad and have little time to play guitar these days let alone find more hobbies. i still love really fast motorcycles( top recorded speed- 188 mph on 2 wheels) and fun cars but i have slowed down quite a bit as of late.... that's where guitars have come in... like everything else i decide to do.... i tend to go all out with an all or nothing attitude. i'd love to find something more sane but i'm not sure i'm built for that. a few years ago when i was still unable to walk i was miserable as hell... not out of anger or pain, i'm just not very good at sitting still...surprising since my former job was to sit/lay for 12-14 hours or more at a stretch bt that was a lot different, total concentration required.
OMG...people really do pay attention to what I say in my posts. BROTHER and his wife...not husband and his wife. Good grief.
That was my first thought too but if he buys you a new guitar now and then who cares
i'm a little late to the party, but a huh ??? what ???
definitely crossed my mind for a second or three ;)
taking care of dogs that i've acquired from irresponsible friend-of-friends, abandoned in my 'hood & failed
foster rescues, while trying to get that thing that's in my avatar dialed in & into the 11's on the motor -
no, it's not the silver wagon, it's the other one ... true 302 CID, none of this overbore, stroker crank business 8)
oh ... & posting youtube links ;)
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umm...uhh... isn't that really a 4.9L micheal?
this is a 5.0... i just got the matching F-150 Raptor for christmas... no guitar like i hoped, just a truck
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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umm...uhh... isn't that really a 4.9L micheal?
this is a 5.0... i just got the matching F-150 Raptor for christmas... no guitar like i hoped, just a truck
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I have a friend that has that car. It gets up a moves nicely!
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umm...uhh... isn't that really a 4.9L micheal?
this is a 5.0... i just got the matching F-150 Raptor for christmas... no guitar like i hoped, just a truck
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
i didn't say it was a "5.0" -
i removed the 5.0 badging because it's a little bit "optimistic" & also less weight goes faster
the small block chevrolet 305 comes closest to being a true "5.0" at 5001cc, or 305.2 CID
there no .030" overbore done, to a 306, because the block didn't need it & the car ran so
strong before the engine was ever went into, that i re-used the factory pistons, rod & crank -
if i were going to throw more than a tiny bottle at it, id've stepped up to the dart sportsman block,
but the 331, systemax, AFR, ed curtis cam'd boosted beast will have to wait ... for a long time, if ever
none of this 347 nonsense :-\
the H.O. roller has a 4.00" bore & 3.00" stroke, which comes out to 4942cc -
car & driver correctly lists the displacement as being 4.9 liters in their road test specs, but at the ford place &
about everywhere one goes to get parts for this "bad boy", they're going to ask "is it a 5-oh ?", so it doesn't
share the 4.9 designation, as not be confused with the 300 CID in-line 6 cylinder that was used in the f150
that coyote boss is just over "the line" at 4951cc, with a 3.63" bore & 3.65" stroke, with 444HP & 380TQ -
with peak HP at 7400RPM & a red line of 7500, if one tries to drive the boss like they stole it, to get last extra
.01th out of the ET, they'll end up plunking down a good bit of $ to upgrade the clutch, trans & driveshaft :o
the raptor is a nice tow vehicle for the boss - 411HP & 434TQ out of that 6.2 will move 'em along :D
where i'll end up running the car is 16 ft above sea level, but i'm not sure if it'll 60 ft as well as the
legendary traction at Atco, back in the day when the only competition for the mustangs was the buick GN
9 more cc's - cool 8)
"a" before "e", thanks ;)
I have a friend that has that car. It gets up a moves nicely!
sweet :D
they do ok, even when stock, but it moves out a bit more nicely now ;)
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Making pure maple syrup with my husband....Sweet Liquid Gold!
Music and Maple Syrup are our two #1's.
#2 is traveling the US in the motorhome riding roller coasters with my husband.
The city where I live in Southern Indiana is home to, Wesselman Woods, which is the largest virgin forest inside city limits in the country. Every year they have the Maple Sugarbush festival where they have a pancake breakfast, a live folk band, and give tours through a track of land where they show you from start to finish how to make pure maple syrup. We go every year and I am always astounded at how much sap it takes to make a small amount of syrup....let alone the work involved. They always serve their syrup on the tables, but they sell pure maple syrup from other places. A lot of the jars are shaped like maple leaves and very pretty. I wonder if I have ever bought any of yours!
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beer
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Definitely +1 for Mountain Biking. I was always the jock type (basketball, football, snowboarding, etc.) until my 30s when the injuries started piling up and sitting around waiting to recover drove me stir crazy! Mountain biking and guitar were adaptions that can be traced back to the rehab process. Mountain biking originally started as a way to strengthen the legs and lungs but it quickly turned into my #1 passion and ultimately another way to put my body at risk. ;) I started playing guitar about 8yrs ago as a way to pass the time while my body was at rest and now I wonder how it's possible I never thought of playing an instrument sooner! For years it seemed like we all rode bikes, but I'm 40 now and have got much better at the music thing, and over the last few years I've made tons of new music playing friends. Musicians and mountain biking sometimes seems like an odd fit but I love it and we have a lot of fun. San Diego is where I call home but California, Oregon, AZ, NV, and UT is where I roam. My wife, my friends, and I love to spend weekends camping and ripping sweet trails. Now that I've got enough time on the 6 string, it gets invited to come along too. Makes me happy. :)
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Making pure maple syrup with my husband....Sweet Liquid Gold!
Music and Maple Syrup are our two #1's.
#2 is traveling the US in the motorhome riding roller coasters with my husband.
The city where I live in Southern Indiana is home to, Wesselman Woods, which is the largest virgin forest inside city limits in the country. Every year they have the Maple Sugarbush festival where they have a pancake breakfast, a live folk band, and give tours through a track of land where they show you from start to finish how to make pure maple syrup. We go every year and I am always astounded at how much sap it takes to make a small amount of syrup....let alone the work involved. They always serve their syrup on the tables, but they sell pure maple syrup from other places. A lot of the jars are shaped like maple leaves and very pretty. I wonder if I have ever bought any of yours!
Lizzy, you wouldn't have had any of our maple syrup, because all of ours is sold in Michigan. You are right, it is labor intensive to make pure maple syrup, and you have to have a lot of knowledge about the process and the proper equipment to make it right (if you are making it to sell). You are also right that it takes a lot of sap. If sap is at 2% sugar content, it will take 43 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. If sap is at 1% sugar content, it will take 86 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. So, you can really appreciate why pure maple syrup costs as much as it does. We only produce Grade A light or medium amber syrup, which is the best. It is mmm mmm good. ;D
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Making pure maple syrup with my husband....Sweet Liquid Gold!
Music and Maple Syrup are our two #1's.
#2 is traveling the US in the motorhome riding roller coasters with my husband.
The city where I live in Southern Indiana is home to, Wesselman Woods, which is the largest virgin forest inside city limits in the country. Every year they have the Maple Sugarbush festival where they have a pancake breakfast, a live folk band, and give tours through a track of land where they show you from start to finish how to make pure maple syrup. We go every year and I am always astounded at how much sap it takes to make a small amount of syrup....let alone the work involved. They always serve their syrup on the tables, but they sell pure maple syrup from other places. A lot of the jars are shaped like maple leaves and very pretty. I wonder if I have ever bought any of yours!
Lizzy, you wouldn't have had any of our maple syrup, because all of ours is sold in Michigan. You are right, it is labor intensive to make pure maple syrup, and you have to have a lot of knowledge about the process and the proper equipment to make it right (if you are making it to sell). You are also right that it takes a lot of sap. If sap is at 2% sugar content, it will take 43 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. If sap is at 1% sugar content, it will take 86 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. So, you can really appreciate why pure maple syrup costs as much as it does. We only produce Grade A light or medium amber syrup, which is the best. It is mmm mmm good. ;D
I think I will have some pancakes and maple syrup for breakfast today. ;D
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Is guitars/music your #1 hobby? If not, what is?
I don't think you really need to ask me that question. Should be obvious! ::)
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Making pure maple syrup with my husband....Sweet Liquid Gold!
Music and Maple Syrup are our two #1's.
#2 is traveling the US in the motorhome riding roller coasters with my husband.
The city where I live in Southern Indiana is home to, Wesselman Woods, which is the largest virgin forest inside city limits in the country. Every year they have the Maple Sugarbush festival where they have a pancake breakfast, a live folk band, and give tours through a track of land where they show you from start to finish how to make pure maple syrup. We go every year and I am always astounded at how much sap it takes to make a small amount of syrup....let alone the work involved. They always serve their syrup on the tables, but they sell pure maple syrup from other places. A lot of the jars are shaped like maple leaves and very pretty. I wonder if I have ever bought any of yours!
Lizzy, you wouldn't have had any of our maple syrup, because all of ours is sold in Michigan. You are right, it is labor intensive to make pure maple syrup, and you have to have a lot of knowledge about the process and the proper equipment to make it right (if you are making it to sell). You are also right that it takes a lot of sap. If sap is at 2% sugar content, it will take 43 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. If sap is at 1% sugar content, it will take 86 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. So, you can really appreciate why pure maple syrup costs as much as it does. We only produce Grade A light or medium amber syrup, which is the best. It is mmm mmm good. ;D
Do you ship to Hawaii?
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Making pure maple syrup with my husband....Sweet Liquid Gold!
Music and Maple Syrup are our two #1's.
#2 is traveling the US in the motorhome riding roller coasters with my husband.
The city where I live in Southern Indiana is home to, Wesselman Woods, which is the largest virgin forest inside city limits in the country. Every year they have the Maple Sugarbush festival where they have a pancake breakfast, a live folk band, and give tours through a track of land where they show you from start to finish how to make pure maple syrup. We go every year and I am always astounded at how much sap it takes to make a small amount of syrup....let alone the work involved. They always serve their syrup on the tables, but they sell pure maple syrup from other places. A lot of the jars are shaped like maple leaves and very pretty. I wonder if I have ever bought any of yours!
Lizzy, you wouldn't have had any of our maple syrup, because all of ours is sold in Michigan. You are right, it is labor intensive to make pure maple syrup, and you have to have a lot of knowledge about the process and the proper equipment to make it right (if you are making it to sell). You are also right that it takes a lot of sap. If sap is at 2% sugar content, it will take 43 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. If sap is at 1% sugar content, it will take 86 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. So, you can really appreciate why pure maple syrup costs as much as it does. We only produce Grade A light or medium amber syrup, which is the best. It is mmm mmm good. ;D
Do you ship to Hawaii?
If you pay for shipping. :)
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Making pure maple syrup with my husband....Sweet Liquid Gold!
Music and Maple Syrup are our two #1's.
#2 is traveling the US in the motorhome riding roller coasters with my husband.
The city where I live in Southern Indiana is home to, Wesselman Woods, which is the largest virgin forest inside city limits in the country. Every year they have the Maple Sugarbush festival where they have a pancake breakfast, a live folk band, and give tours through a track of land where they show you from start to finish how to make pure maple syrup. We go every year and I am always astounded at how much sap it takes to make a small amount of syrup....let alone the work involved. They always serve their syrup on the tables, but they sell pure maple syrup from other places. A lot of the jars are shaped like maple leaves and very pretty. I wonder if I have ever bought any of yours!
Lizzy, you wouldn't have had any of our maple syrup, because all of ours is sold in Michigan. You are right, it is labor intensive to make pure maple syrup, and you have to have a lot of knowledge about the process and the proper equipment to make it right (if you are making it to sell). You are also right that it takes a lot of sap. If sap is at 2% sugar content, it will take 43 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. If sap is at 1% sugar content, it will take 86 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup. So, you can really appreciate why pure maple syrup costs as much as it does. We only produce Grade A light or medium amber syrup, which is the best. It is mmm mmm good. ;D
Do you ship to Hawaii?
If you pay for shipping. :)
I'll PM you my address...I'd love to buy some from you!
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my main hobby is music of course. singing is number 1 for me. Next is the guitar. I play vocals and guitars with my old band. oh and i love single malt whisky too. haven't tried a bunch since it's really expensive, but i have a small club going and we do rotations in buying the next bottle. ;D
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About 43yrs ago I bought my first SLR camera, having always had a keen interest in photography. Unfortunately, I seem to pick hobbies that I have no talent for whatsoever; but that does not stop me getting great enjoyment from them. Occasionally, more by luck than judgment, I will take a photo that I'm quite pleased with and that gives me a great deal of pleasure. I avoid photographing people, since I have learnt I am especially poor at that.
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I like camping, light hiking and photography. I don't play music much anymore, but I still enjoy going out to hear local live music.
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beer
Only one small word yet it speaks volumes!
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beer
Only one small word yet it speaks volumes!
9.2% to be exact. :)
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Fly fishing and camping. What else is there?
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Fly fishing sounds like suspicious activity.
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According to the stats, I've spent an hour a day posting on this forum since I actually began posting in late October 2013. Guess that makes posting here my chief hobby.
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Only if you're a brown trout holding in a small mountain up in Utah at around 8000 ft. And let me add snow skiing to the list.
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Only if you're a brown trout holding in a small mountain up in Utah at around 8000 ft. And let me add snow skiing to the list.
Alta and Snowbird, or the other valleys up there?
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Other than guitar, I enjoy running. I used to absolutely despise it, but the more and more I did it I began to love it. I try to get in anywhere from 15-20 miles a week. Any other runners on the board?
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Other than guitar, I enjoy running. I used to absolutely despise it, but the more and more I did it I began to love it. I try to get in anywhere from 15-20 miles a week. Any other runners on the board?
I only do the G run.
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It used to be woodworking until I started messing with the Guitar and liking it so much, and after a buddy of mine who had a woodworking accident, who's nickname is now Seven Fingers. I am now affraid to touch any of my power tools. :o
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Fly fishing sounds like suspicious activity.
;D ;D ;D ;D
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It used to be woodworking until I started messing with the Guitar and liking it so much, and after a buddy of mine who had a woodworking accident, who's nickname is now Seven Fingers. I am now afraid to touch any of my power tools. :o
Hope that's not his fretting hand :(
Interestingly I was working in the ER one day and this 70ish YO man came in with his wife and grandchild and his hand was all wrapped up. Apparently he had been involved in woodworking in his garage and lost a bit of his index finger... Unfortunately for him this wasn't the first time... it was the 6th. All the other times he and brought in the severed finger and it was reattached, this time it had remained behind at home. I asked his wife why she let him continue and she said it was his hobby and kept him busy.... oh jeez
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I really enjoy getting out on my Harley and riding the Blue Ridge Parkway and back roads of Albemarle County, Va.
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OK hobbies...besides guitar.
RC airplanes:
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Planes/FloatEagle2.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Planes/FloatEagle2.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Planes/RCWaco_zpsfe40b37a.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Planes/RCWaco_zpsfe40b37a.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Planes/BF109_zpsb433f842.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Planes/BF109_zpsb433f842.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Planes/P40_zpsfb6c1882.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Planes/P40_zpsfb6c1882.jpg.html)
Knife collecting, mostly WWII bayonets and survival knives. I can't believe I have no pictures!
Antique cars:
I learned how to drive on this one. Owned it since December , 1964
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/NOVA/IMG_0331-1.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/NOVA/IMG_0331-1.jpg.html)
Got this one in 1973:
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Cars/57bird.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Cars/57bird.jpg.html)
Got this one in 1976...wasn't an antique yet:
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Cars/15B.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Cars/15B.jpg.html)
Antique Firearms:
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Guns/PAlongrifle.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Guns/PAlongrifle.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Guns/KyRifle.png) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Guns/KyRifle.png.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Guns/21B.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Guns/21B.jpg.html)
And keeping up my wife's toy:
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/2010%20Sensata%20United%20Way%20Auto%20Show/IMG_1071.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/2010%20Sensata%20United%20Way%20Auto%20Show/IMG_1071.jpg.html)
And now this: (http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Fiddle%20Build/topprofile.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Fiddle%20Build/topprofile.jpg.html)
Dang! No wonder I have no spare time!
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those airplanes look like fun Dcarey ! do they make an A-10 ??? i love that tank !
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those airplanes look like fun Dcarey ! do they make an A-10 ??? i love that tank !
Yes, they do...it's a bit out of my league, though...the best kits available have twin turbine power...to the tune of $7000 + for each engine! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4im7JotdOBA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4im7JotdOBA
I'll spend that kind of money on a car...not an RC plane.
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I prefer wind power.
(http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/y539/MrDilligaff/HP-SHAYNE/CodeBlue1_zps11c39935.jpg)
(http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/y539/MrDilligaff/HP-SHAYNE/CodeBlue37_zps0877f719.jpg)
(http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/y539/MrDilligaff/HP-SHAYNE/CodeBlue3_zpsb16d3af6.jpg)
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Love the Chevy II wagon, DCarey....
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CodeblueEMT...look at my avatar. It's an "Air Guitar" kite!
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Kites/IM000152.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Kites/IM000152.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Kites/IM000153.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Kites/IM000153.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Kites/airsue.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Kites/airsue.jpg.html)
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Love your air guitar kite. 8) I remember your kite photos from an older thread. Looks like that octopus should be tied off to a telephone pole. I can't imagine how hard that kite must pull.
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Love your air guitar kite. 8) I remember your kite photos from an older thread. Looks like that octopus should be tied off to a telephone pole. I can't imagine how hard that kite must pull.
As a matter of fact, it IS tied to telephone poles! The entire flying field in Newport RI is lined with telephone poles!
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Primarily guitar playing and song writing. Time doesn't allow for much more than that. If I were to take up a new hobby it would probably be woodturning, making pens and other small items.
Well, I took the plunge and bought some equipment for wood turning. I've made three pens so far as a trial run. I've learned some techniques since then, primarily in the area of finish, and have eight more pen blanks waiting to be turned. My interest in guitars has spurred a great appreciation for different types of wood and grain patterns, so this hobby fits nicely. Eventually, I'm going to get into making other items that show off the wood even more. I'll try to get some pictures posted after my next batch of pens is completed.
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Current list of additional hobbies:
Active:
Birding
choral singing
hiking
Wine drinking, tasting and collecting
cooking
Dormant:
Tennis
skiing
stamp collecting
biking
photography
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Traveling. Nice that I can bring a guitar along. :) We divide our time between the boat and the RV, generally for several months at a time. I enjoy writing (used to be a regular contributor to a couple professional photography magazines (I was a professional photographer for 32 years - Master of Photography, Photographic Craftsman, Certified Professional Photographer, International Affiliated Photographic Juror, etc).
These days, we spend time playing on our scoots...
(http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z440/eiwiz/3049028b321cac7534a6af99a6d2264d_zpsb9b3d26b.jpg)
We have been riding motorcycles for 45 years (almost as long as I've been playing guitar). Last year, I was beginning to feel like I was about done with two wheels... my wife suggested we buy a couple scooters ( yes, she rides - I taught her to ride on my Triumph Bonneville when we were in high school). I didn't think much of that idea, so we compromised... and bought a couple scooters. We have been enjoying the heck out of these things. No desire for cross country riding (we've both had full dressers, HD and Goldwings), so now we are "urban cruising": taking the scoots across town for lunch... or, to check out a music store we haven't visited. BIG fun - up to about 65 mph and around 100 mpg. We haul 'em in a cargo trailer behind the RV.
Coming up on my 50th anniversary of guitar playing, the last few years I have learned a lot about tonewoods and body styles. This forum has been a bit of a hobby, too, I guess.
Captain Jim
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I seem to have a list of hobbies and interests that rise and fall in importance in my life:
- Automobiles (particularly the Corvette); slowly building a car collection, but I'm still looking for that '63 Split-Window Coupe that I've alway wanted...
- Aviation (I hold a private pilot's certificate and own a Piper Cherokee)
- Numismatics (coin collecting)
- Playing guitar/collecting Taylors
- SCUBA diving
- Snow skiing
- Softball
- Target shooting/gun collecting
- Volleyball
Something that I do not enjoy, but has dominated my life for the past two months: General yard work, in particular, raking leaves. I never saw so many leaves in my life -- and I'm from Pennsylvania! I didn't think there were enough trees in Texas to produce the number of leaves I've found in my yard...! I wish leaves would become legal tender...!
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Went snow shoeing today--add that to the hobby list
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fitzy, someday when your older, i'll tell you my '63 corvette story. it'll have to be on a day when your feeling strong as it'll make you wanna cry !
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fitzy, someday when your older, i'll tell you my '63 corvette story. it'll have to be on a day when your feeling strong as it'll make you wanna cry !
Oh, no! I'm not sure I'll want to hear it -- even when I do grow up...!
I'll try to brace myself; let it fly whenever you're ready...
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I retired in May last yr 2013 and just do solo acts in lounges and having a heck of a time to get started cause I just want to do hi end lounges like the Hilton's .Besides that I'm really heavy in flight simulation ,which most people when you mention it don't have a clue what I'm talking about.
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ok fitzy, here it is....
i went to high school in Anchorage AK. i got my license in my jr year and quickly bought a 68 camaro off a used car lot. it wasnt much of a car and well, i wasn't much of a driver yet either ! so long story short, camaro didn't last long. the guy that owns/owned the speed shop on 4th avenue had a baby blue '63 'vette for sale for 6k. it's body was cracked in a bunch of places, had a 454 with an 871 blower stickin' outta the hood and 31" mickey thompson slicks tucked under its tubbed rear end.(anybody that spent any time in Anchorage in the '80's knows this car)
well anyway, i bought it and the seller had a parts doner car that went with it. a laguna blue shell with most of the suspension, engine and tranny came with it but not installed. most of the interior was gone but it was a solid body. guy said it was a '63 also but i didnt believe it even though the title listed it as so.... it just didn't have the distinctive split window !
well, anyway... a 16 yr old with a tubbed '63 vette as his primary source of transportation in Anchorage Ak in january isn't the smartest thing ! i ended up selling it to a bush pilot at the anchorage airport and buying a dropped '78 chevy shortbed pickup. i gave him the parts car with the sale( i almost broke even at least). the story lies dormant from there until just a few years ago while watching the Barrett-jackson auction on tv. they had a '63 vette up for sale and the announcer was explaining away why this particular model didn't have the famed split window. toward the end of the production run of '63, many people were complaining that the rear window post made it impossible to see behind you so chevy offer a post-delete option. 41 '63 vettes were made without the rear window post... my "parts car " was one !!!
when i dropped off the parts car, the buyer had me put it behind one of his 3 small hangars with his other parts cars. there were a few dozen back there. a '57 210, a coupla other 'vettes, some '50's stuff.
i often wonder if that parts car is still sitting behind that hangar.......
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ok fitzy, here it is....
i went to high school in Anchorage AK. i got my license in my jr year and quickly bought a 68 camaro off a used car lot. it wasnt much of a car and well, i wasn't much of a driver yet either ! so long story short, camaro didn't last long. the guy that owns/owned the speed shop on 4th avenue had a baby blue '63 'vette for sale for 6k. it's body was cracked in a bunch of places, had a 454 with an 871 blower stickin' outta the hood and 31" mickey thompson slicks tucked under its tubbed rear end.(anybody that spent any time in Anchorage in the '80's knows this car)
well anyway, i bought it and the seller had a parts doner car that went with it. a laguna blue shell with most of the suspension, engine and tranny came with it but not installed. most of the interior was gone but it was a solid body. guy said it was a '63 also but i didnt believe it even though the title listed it as so.... it just didn't have the distinctive split window !
well, anyway... a 16 yr old with a tubbed '63 vette as his primary source of transportation in Anchorage Ak in january isn't the smartest thing ! i ended up selling it to a bush pilot at the anchorage airport and buying a dropped '78 chevy shortbed pickup. i gave him the parts car with the sale( i almost broke even at least). the story lies dormant from there until just a few years ago while watching the Barrett-jackson auction on tv. they had a '63 vette up for sale and the announcer was explaining away why this particular model didn't have the famed split window. toward the end of the production run of '63, many people were complaining that the rear window post made it impossible to see behind you so chevy offer a post-delete option. 41 '63 vettes were made without the rear window post... my "parts car " was one !!!
when i dropped off the parts car, the buyer had me put it behind one of his 3 small hangars with his other parts cars. there were a few dozen back there. a '57 210, a coupla other 'vettes, some '50's stuff.
i often wonder if that parts car is still sitting behind that hangar.......
:'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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ok fitzy, here it is....
i went to high school in Anchorage AK. i got my license in my jr year and quickly bought a 68 camaro off a used car lot. it wasnt much of a car and well, i wasn't much of a driver yet either ! so long story short, camaro didn't last long. the guy that owns/owned the speed shop on 4th avenue had a baby blue '63 'vette for sale for 6k. it's body was cracked in a bunch of places, had a 454 with an 871 blower stickin' outta the hood and 31" mickey thompson slicks tucked under its tubbed rear end.(anybody that spent any time in Anchorage in the '80's knows this car)
well anyway, i bought it and the seller had a parts doner car that went with it. a laguna blue shell with most of the suspension, engine and tranny came with it but not installed. most of the interior was gone but it was a solid body. guy said it was a '63 also but i didnt believe it even though the title listed it as so.... it just didn't have the distinctive split window !
well, anyway... a 16 yr old with a tubbed '63 vette as his primary source of transportation in Anchorage Ak in january isn't the smartest thing ! i ended up selling it to a bush pilot at the anchorage airport and buying a dropped '78 chevy shortbed pickup. i gave him the parts car with the sale( i almost broke even at least). the story lies dormant from there until just a few years ago while watching the Barrett-jackson auction on tv. they had a '63 vette up for sale and the announcer was explaining away why this particular model didn't have the famed split window. toward the end of the production run of '63, many people were complaining that the rear window post made it impossible to see behind you so chevy offer a post-delete option. 41 '63 vettes were made without the rear window post... my "parts car " was one !!!
when i dropped off the parts car, the buyer had me put it behind one of his 3 small hangars with his other parts cars. there were a few dozen back there. a '57 210, a coupla other 'vettes, some '50's stuff.
i often wonder if that parts car is still sitting behind that hangar.......
Oh, no, no, no, no, noooooo! :'( You need to take a trip to Alaska...!
I knew that people (and true to Zora Duntov's predictions) were complaining about rearward visibility on the SWC -- and that some had even taken to cutting the split post out of their '63 coupes. But I didn't know there were a cache of factory-produced '63 coupes with the rear split post deleted...! What are the odds...?!
*SIGH* We've all to a story about the car that got away, but mine isn't nearly as gut-wrenching as yours...!
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Surfing, skiing, tennis, travel (especially to Utah for great snow and lovely new wives).
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I love to golf, play the guitar....and there's a forum that I run on the side. ;)
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Lately I've been dabbling in this:
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Fiddle%20Build/IMG_1734.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Fiddle%20Build/IMG_1734.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Fiddle%20Build/IMG_1738.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Fiddle%20Build/IMG_1738.jpg.html)
And these:
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Stuff/IMG_1742.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Stuff/IMG_1742.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Stuff/IMG_1741.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Stuff/IMG_1741.jpg.html)
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Lately I've been dabbling in this:
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Fiddle%20Build/IMG_1734.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Fiddle%20Build/IMG_1734.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Fiddle%20Build/IMG_1738.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Fiddle%20Build/IMG_1738.jpg.html)
And these:
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Stuff/IMG_1742.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Stuff/IMG_1742.jpg.html)
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f280/dcarey69/Stuff/IMG_1741.jpg) (http://s49.photobucket.com/user/dcarey69/media/Stuff/IMG_1741.jpg.html)
Considering the instrument and the scrimshaw motif, could we say you're involved with bow and stern?
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GROAN! ::)