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Posted: 12/18/2020 4:34:31 PM EDT
I've ordered some tools and parts to do some watch modding on my Seiko SKX007.

I'm ordering a cheapo "brew your own gallon of beer" kit.

I'm not at the point yet to order a Factory Five Racing kit car.  But I hope to be there by end of 2021.

Need suggestions for some other craftsman/DIY/build-stuff-with-your-hands  hobbies.  Have already mastered porn and beating off, so don't bother suggesting them.

ETA: looking primarily for hobbies making stuff that is practical and useful.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:35:22 PM EDT
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Woodworking
Model Trains
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:36:17 PM EDT
[#2]
Tig welding

Or

Buy a lathe and start making your own tools
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:36:24 PM EDT
[#3]
Model airplanes or rockets.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:36:37 PM EDT
[#4]
jellyfish in the toilet dish.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:36:53 PM EDT
[#5]
slutty women
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:37:37 PM EDT
[#6]
Have you tried masturbating?
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:37:44 PM EDT
[#7]
Melee weapons.  
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:37:57 PM EDT
[#8]
Build a wood fired oven.

Paint toy soldiers

That’s what I’ve been doing.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:38:48 PM EDT
[#9]
Polymer 80 kit.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:39:05 PM EDT
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if that's a euphemism, I'm not understanding it.

if it's literal, seek help.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:39:26 PM EDT
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RIF.  You're a product of government schools, aintcha?
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:39:47 PM EDT
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I've ordered some tools and parts to do some watch modding on my Seiko SKX007.

I'm ordering a cheapo "brew your own gallon of beer" kit.

I'm not at the point yet to order a Factory Five Racing kit car.  But I hope to be there by end of 2021.

Need suggestions for some other craftsman/DIY/build-stuff-with-your-hands  hobbies.  Have already mastered porn and beating off, so don't bother suggesting them.
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I would join other members in suggesting woodworking, or maybe bladesmithing, that's always a cool hobby.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:40:08 PM EDT
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Kill a hobo



What are you doing with your 007?
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:41:00 PM EDT
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last time I did that, I painted a blue helmet onto a  plastic little green army man, shot it with a 308 round at 25 yards, and sent it to my BIL in Europe who was always shit-talking America and saying how great the UN is.  My wife took away my paints AND my bags of LGAM.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:42:09 PM EDT
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Leatherwork is one of those things you can learn to do rather exceptional level of quality work with a rather low investment in tooling.  Most of the improvements gained from machines are efficiency and not capability driven.

Bonus: Shop smells like fresh tanned leather.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:42:44 PM EDT
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Trying to make it easier for aging eyes to see the hands on the dial.

-Yellow dial and chapter ring
-MM black hands
-brushed steel bezel insert
-single dome sapphire crystal

Once I do it, I'll start a thread in Watches & Time Pieces and @ you
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:43:37 PM EDT
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Do a muzzleloader kit!  Woodworking and some metal work that should go boom - or kaboom!





Want to really get hooked get the Track of the Wolf catalog.  It kicks ASS.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:43:51 PM EDT
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Buy a mini mill and lathe and teach yourself machining. It's fun.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:44:30 PM EDT
[#20]
Carve and smoke tobacco pipes!
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:44:36 PM EDT
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Knitting
Musical instrument
Carving
Pottery
Blacksmithing
Reloading
Baking
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:44:44 PM EDT
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Polymer 80 kit.
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I was gonna get a 1911 kit with 80% frame, then COVID hysteria hit and shit was sold out errywhere.  Same with reloading.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:44:49 PM EDT
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By and old motorcycle and rebuild it.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:45:17 PM EDT
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Start reloading or start you own pleasure journal.  
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:45:35 PM EDT
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links to kits?
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:46:00 PM EDT
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Get a "make your own artificial crab meat" kit and the Bindford 2000 DIY Wild Wild West Model Train Set with authentic, 'guaranteed to fill up your entire basement' old west town.  

You'll be steeped in stuff to do in no time.
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I take it that worked for you?
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:47:19 PM EDT
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Get a 3D printer. It’s cheaper than a P80 kit.

Or, if you’re affluent like everyone in GD (except me), set yourself up a small metal shop and start churning out lowers. ??
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:47:31 PM EDT
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Paint toy soldiers

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Wood oven and start making pizzas. For a year you will be eating damn good pizza until you get sick of cooking
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:47:35 PM EDT
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Knife making
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:48:39 PM EDT
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I'm studying fireworks making.  No seriously.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:49:25 PM EDT
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Do you reload? I ask because that is the exact reason I started.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:51:12 PM EDT
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Hunting
Winter time includes predators, squirrels, rabbits.
Trapping
Beaver, muskrat, otter, mink
Neither take a big $ investment to do as a hobby
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:51:41 PM EDT
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No.  with my luck I would blow myself up.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:51:41 PM EDT
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Start reloading ammo. It's a hobby all in it's self.

After this ammo shortage is over, buy components cheap and stack them deep.

As for now, start researching and buy a Dillon. You can still get primers, powder and bullets now you just have to be quick
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:52:20 PM EDT
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Winter time includes predators, squirrels, rabbits.
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Beaver, muskrat, otter, mink
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Pretty sure the neighbors would applaud if I could catch the giant armadillo tearing up our yards.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:53:15 PM EDT
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this sounds interesting, but all I see are kits where you basically put some wood blocks onto a knife handle and carve on them until they fit your hand.  I'm looking for something a bit more next-level.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:54:43 PM EDT
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always been itnerested in bass guitar, no idea why
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:56:39 PM EDT
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reload wild cat cartriges
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:57:52 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:59:32 PM EDT
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this sounds interesting, but all I see are kits where you basically put some wood blocks onto a knife handle and carve on them until they fit your hand.  I'm looking for something a bit more next-level.
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Uh, next level is as high a level as you want it to be.  You can buy a knife grinder and make stock removal knives.  You can get into forging and make pattern welded steel.  You can make folders from scratch from blase or exotic materials, slip joints, liner locks, frame locks, button locks, lock backs, etc.  You can try to do all of those things or pick the ones that provide the most enjoyment to you.

Knife making is an infinitely scalable hobby.

Link Posted: 12/18/2020 4:59:33 PM EDT
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Careful tho. This shit can get addicting

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Link Posted: 12/18/2020 5:00:36 PM EDT
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this sounds interesting, but all I see are kits where you basically put some wood blocks onto a knife handle and carve on them until they fit your hand.  I'm looking for something a bit more next-level.
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this sounds interesting, but all I see are kits where you basically put some wood blocks onto a knife handle and carve on them until they fit your hand.  I'm looking for something a bit more next-level.


That's why you buy tool steel plate.  Google stock removal knife making.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 5:02:13 PM EDT
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Download Fusion 360 and get a 3D printer.

Can play around with designing some small parts here or there.

But Fusion has a whole manufacturing side of things which will let you generate Gcode for using things like CNC router mills.

Bought my CNC mill last year for making my own FPV drone frames, from small palm sized to HOLY SHITBALLS big.

Now I am making a move to aluminum for some small trim parts and brackets for my 66 Mustang.





Link Posted: 12/18/2020 5:02:18 PM EDT
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I have been thinking about woodworking, started to upgrade my old Craftsman table saw, by the time I finish I will have paid more for the upgrades then I paid for the saw new.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 5:03:41 PM EDT
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old school balsa wood airplane models  ... worked for me 40 years ago
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 5:05:20 PM EDT
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Don't you remember?  You seemed to enjoy it.  You kept coming back.
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Get a "make your own artificial crab meat" kit and the Bindford 2000 DIY Wild Wild West Model Train Set with authentic, 'guaranteed to fill up your entire basement' old west town.  

You'll be steeped in stuff to do in no time.

I take it that worked for you?



Don't you remember?  You seemed to enjoy it.  You kept coming back.

Link Posted: 12/18/2020 5:06:46 PM EDT
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Chronic feverish masturbation.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 5:06:48 PM EDT
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Knitting.
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 5:08:57 PM EDT
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another public-school grad...
Link Posted: 12/18/2020 5:11:51 PM EDT
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I vote knife making or leather craft. I’ve dabbled in each and enjoyed it.
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