Reply With QuoteVintage razors, DE and SE.
They don't make them like they used to...
It's a bit of a pain in the backside, but I have been buying original art for several years now. It's not an investment, it just looks great around the house.
Trouble is, it means that I often can't afford the watch I want because I've bought a painting, or I can't afford the painting I want because I bought a watch. Arrrghhh!
Vintage razors, DE and SE.
They don't make them like they used to...
Books, straight razors, to name just two among the others.
I was/am a huge Oasis fan and have quite a lot of vinyl records, CDs concert programmes and other memorabilia, I often see how much some of it goes for on eBay and have come close to selling it all and dropping the proceeds on a watch but can't quite bring myself to do it
Paintings, antique funiture, old diving equipment and shoes (according to my wife)
Plus bits for my old Car.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a serial kit-intensive hobbyist.
Bicycles
Drones
RC cars
Lock picking
Motorcycles
Leading
Home wine / beer / distillation
Chickens / growing / self sufficiency
That's the list from the last 10 years I guess, all continued to a greater or lesser extent. Watches and bicycles are my main vices.
While not a collector, suppose I am the stereotypical TZer, number of Belstaff jackets, many pairs of shoess ( although no redwing), couple of DE razors. Just no MX5.
The only thing I seem to have collected albeit accidentally is BBQs, garden looks more like a Weber showroom.
Just where does one start?
It's art for me as well. Far too much of it and it's not 'trendy' enough to be hanging on our walls !!
I collect vices ;)
Shoes and Coats... I like the Barbour Belstaff look (I ride a bike) and Grensons is a favourite in the shoe department.
With so many collecting art, can someone point me in a direction of an artist to fill some wall space. TIA
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Golf and golf gear for me.
Shoes and fishing equipment is my vice
Around 4,000 LPs and a similar number of CDs.Originally Posted by R0bertb00th
Oh and a fairly serious 2-channel hifi system.
What sort of art do you like ?
Motorbikes and real ale are my main ones... Not at the same time obviously.
Pens, mechanical pencils old and new but mainly new !
Original art including carvings.
Errrrrrrrr that's it !
Got quite a few F1 World Champion hand-signed prints, the only one actually framed and hanging is a Senna print by Alan Fearnley:
Cars are my vice & Mercedes in particular
Yep. When acquaintances get sassy with the 'ooh nice watch, HOW MUCH' I tell them, 'much less than my hifi.' LPs are my latest 'hobby'. Although I wouldn't consider myself a collector or 'box swapper'.
Much the same here, a serious audio system and a music collection amassed over 30 yrs. Not quite at the numbers you mention but enough to be cumbersome and in need of a cull.
Hence my moniker. Another one lives at work, where it is still in active use.
One day - when I own a decent 3D printer - I am going to make me one of those ;)
Hence my moniker. Another one lives at work, where it is still in active use.
You can download the blueprints here:
http://www.curta.li/curta_toc.php
Pictures of Barbara Streisand.
Mine used to be knives. I'm talking fixed, folders, axes, swords, the works. Around last year I cashed up and sold them all, save the first one I ever bought and what I consider my personal grail knife.
Now, no surprise, its watches.
Oh - nice! I have the blueprints from various sources, but there is a lot more useful data there... good job I am not busy in work tomorrow ;)
Well I don't really have 'spensive watches any more but it's still comfortably more than both (reasonably decent) cars.
The LPs go back to 1973 (I still have the first one I bought) ... I'm on record in the 80s as believing that CD would never catch on, well I was sort of right, CD production is falling off a cliff but LP production is climbing again. I never got rid of mine [/smuggrin] mainly as back in the late 80s early 90s when people were clearing stuff out, I knew I could never afford to replace them even if they were reissued on CD (and a great many weren't).
I don't buy 'new' LPs as my particular area of renaissance, baroque and classical chamber music isn't heavily featured in the world of audophool reissues. Thank goodness as the prices are pretty breathtaking, while still often falling short of the best late 50s/early 60s pressings. The more upmarket branches of Oxfam (at places like Henley, Marlow and Summerton) are my main hunting grounds these days.
I share your affliction! They are great aren't they? Currently loving my Gillette Milord.
Vintage Tennis racquets
6 Dunlop Max 200G (McEnroe / Graf)
2 Puma Super (Becker)
1 Puma Winner (Becker)
1 Adidas CF25 (Lendle)
1 Kneissel White Star (Lendl)
1 Wilson Pro-Staff 7.2 (Graf)
1 Chemold Alum (Emerson)
2 Prince Alum (Shriver)
+ approx 30 odd others incl Prince, Head, Volkl, more Dunlops, Wilsons etc...
Play with them all in rotation, one reason I never get any better....
I'm afraid i'm an addictive collector
I collect-
Airguns
Guitars
Knives and Axes
Binoculars and telescopes
Machinery and other tools
Coins!
I also do-
Bonsai
tropical fish
fishing Coarse/Fly
gunsmithing.
My MG Midget when health allows!
I used to repair watches and strip/clean them until my fingers started get stiff with Arthritis and I was dropping tools in to the movements so I stopped and sold the cleaning machie, I only fit batteries now to cheapo Qtz watches!! :)
John
As I age I am becoming competent at collecting illnesses and failed ambitions, however my cheery demeanour has remained constant.
Gray
I resemble that remark :-)
Barney
I go through phases but recently its been Whiskey (Mainly Japanese) and Cigars.
These are starting as hobbies but now becoming a vice...
I have no idea what these are but I think I need one.
The technology of pcp air guns is a bit of a fascination; the latest one is;
I share this hobby with my son and it teaches him a lot so this is a wonderful father and son thing, not at all a vice.
My by far greatest hobby however is going out with charming company: I lóve flirting and sharing quality time with an attractive woman.
I am not married and all are fully aware, so I would not call it a vice either.
I have a collection of cigarette card sets from 1900 - 1939 .
scooter
They are the worst coffee grinders ever designed ;)
Another one for art, and records. Also, a small selection of first edition, signed books. Only really for books I love.
I always have to have a hobby unfortunately for me they are usually flash in the pan!
That's not how it usually works out. See the associated photograph as supporting evidence.
Yes. I also collect historic signatures, paintings and art, antiques, minerals and fossils, space memorabilia, antique taxidermy, books, film memorabilia, art glass, historic and ancient artefacts, vintage gaming machines including arcade machines and pinball tables, rare British stamps, orreries, clocks, and all kinds of other curios. That do you?
Very, very nice. I know exactly what they are, and that they are rather valuable.
Hence my moniker. Another one lives at work, where it is still in active use.
The correct number of items in any collection is n+1 where n = the existing number of items.
Nope. I do not collect anything (not even watches.)
while i enjoy many material things in life, my general outlook is that I intend to shuffle off this mortal coil leaving as little in the "clear out dad's stuff skip" that follows our demise as possible.
Same here ,got a garage full of stuff that the magic dust no longer works on.Half my current bag is made up of old proven gear!
May put some s/c if i can get round to it at some point.
Dave
Knives and pens, used to be lighters but I gave up the weed.
I collect CD's and records , I have thousands of them taking up too much room .My other interest is books and I have a huge number filling up the house ,I blame the abebooks website, it's to easy to buy out of print obscure books that I have to get .
Vintage slot cars (1960's stuff).
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