Other Hobbies?

Aleforme said:
Oh man, that's a great lefty Regular. Judging by the belly on that blade, guessing it's BG42 steel. Regulars are my focus in collecting now. I used to chase the latest and greatest custom but have been keeping it simple in recent years. CRK, Laconico & Mayo are my main interest.
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Funny thing about that lefty. It used to belong to Tom Mayo (also a left hander). The blade is different, because, he put his own grind on it. Sadly, I lost my other small unique graphic. It was an early one too. Your Mayo is top notch. I just never got around to getting one.
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The above is a full custom Hinderer, "Dauntless". An early Triple Aught Design collaboration. And it's a lefty.
 
Replicant said:
Funny thing about that lefty. It used to belong to Tom Mayo (also a left hander). The blade is different, because, he put his own grind on it. Sadly, I lost my other small unique graphic. It was an early one too. Your Mayo is top notch. I just never got around to getting one.
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The above is a full custom Hinderer, "Dauntless". An early Triple Aught Design collaboration. And it's a lefty.
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Love that TAD Hinderer collab.

That’s pretty cool your Regular was once Tom’s. I’ve got one of the Regulars he modded before CRK asked him to stop.
 

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Aleforme said:
Love that TAD Hinderer collab.

That’s pretty cool your Regular was once Tom’s. I’ve got one of the Regulars he modded before CRK asked him to stop.
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I like that one. I think Tom once said, that there is no better knife than the Sebenza. I would agree. I need to pick up another user, one of these days. I dropped the small one in the snow one morning. It still kills me to this day.


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Growing hedges...
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Tying flies...
And just getting into this...
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I sold off all my bow hunting gear and bow in a realization life was getting more complicated not less, and I would probably never get a chance to go big game hunting. Catapults kinda fill that void of needing to fling projectiles
 
I hope this thread stays up for awhile cause it give an insight to folks here.

Most of my hobbies are done with …

1. I used to run. For 41 years. It was the one thing i was better than average at. But this year i had to stop because advanced arthritis in my back and bone spurs pressing on a nerve. (I manage it through physical therapy exercises), but it sucks giving up something that i identified with more than half my life.

2. Also i used to bowl until recently. For fifteen years i bowled on a league my brother put together. I bowled about as good as I flyfished. My average was about 121 on a good year, but i once bowled a 173. I can no longer bowl for the same reason i can no longer run. Hahaha.. I think like OMJ we need an OWJ. I even have the right initial!

3. I read a lot and usually average about a book a week.

4. I like to write. And i like research. It was my favorite task in my job at the union office. I still like doing it.

5. I do like cooking. I have learned about cast iron cooking from folks who post here. (@iveofione !) I quit dutch oven bread baking. I actually made some really good Dutch oven bread (again thanks to forum members here) but i love carbs too much and i had to cut it back.

6. I’m not good at any other hobbies….except maybe articulating my opInion.
 
Bajema said:
My hobbies kind of ebb and flow as far as what I’m focusing on at any given time, but other than fly fishing and fly tying I’ve got:
- birding
- woodworking
- spoon carving
- home brewing
- beer judging
- cooking
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I’m going to start a hobby of “beer judging:”. hahahaha.. i didn’t know it was a thing!
 
DFG said:
I've also been baking bread weekly for almost 6 months. Do you have any killer recipes for crispy, crackly crust / open crumb white bread that you'd be willing to share?
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I'll add my recipe soon although it is constantly evolving as I learn new nuances to the baking process. Probably the best way to get crispy, crackly crust is to bake in a dutch oven. I have some dutch ovens but seldom use them as I don't like the resultant round loaves. Do some research on adding steam to your bread baking, you will probably get better oven spring.
 
Gots a wine cellar with anywhere from 80-180 bottles, depending on seasonal offerings (121 right now, but that number goes down weekly), definitely consider wine a hobby.
I gots a tidy collection of hand-built acoustic instruments that get love from late october to april, but usually spend the summers in cases - both my vocations are salmonid-centric and involve my hands being wet for most of the day....the pickers among us will understand.
I certainly enjoy my kitchen time, and consider cooking more of an avocation than hobby - I like cooking for fam and close friends, and like trying new dishes and cuisines.
Crossword fanatic. I dig rippin thru the NY times crosswords on a pretty much daily basis, and hitting their 20yr archive when I'm bored.
Hunting is making a comeback in my life after a decade+ hiatus - now that my badass wife is rrrrrreally getting into hunting, I figured I would dust off my gear and join her. Definitely been fun.
 
My other hobbies include...
- weightlifting. I compete in bodybuilding competitions for the female 'bikini' division. And lifting heavy things is fun.
- cooking.
- backpacking. (and fishing)
- hiking.
- sports.
- collecting pressed pennies. I started collecting pressed pennies when I was 4.
- film photography and film cameras. My father is a huge film camera collector, so I am lucky to borrow different cameras to take on my backpacking trips! Here's a photo of a fishy lake :)
 

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Now that I think about it my other hobbies have really contracted since kids. I play 1 soccer match weekly, which I really enjoy, and occasional guitar or drums, usually by myself anymore, which isn’t as fun to me alone as it is with other people or in a band, hence ”occasional.”
 
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