I am beginning to think I am an anachronism...or ...What is your old fashioned pass-time?

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Posted: 4/19/2014 6:00:08 PM EDT

I don't know if I am just get older or what. The hobbies I enjoy, few others do. I have a handful of great friends and family who relate.

I like and participate/immerse myself in;

Shooting Flintlocks to SP1's.
Swords and Fencing
Martial Arts
Home Brewing Beer
Shaving with a Double Edge Razor
Playing NES
Bodybuilding
80's Hair Bands
Debate
Chess
Canoeing
Hiking
Hunting

Most of my contemporaries in close proximity are buying bigger and bigger boats, bigger and bigger breasts for the girlfriends they have that are half their ages, and bigger and bigger houses to fill with more and more useless junk.
Few of them ever seem too terribly happy and always need the latest, best thing.

Tell me that I am not the only one who likes things better the way they were as opposed to how they are? I am feeling like an old codger...almost.

What is your old fashioned hobby and/or passion?

Posted: 4/19/2014 6:02:23 PM EDT

[#1]

Bluegrass music, Judo, woodworking, porch sitting...

Posted: 4/19/2014 6:09:17 PM EDT

[#2]

Stop hanging out with the low IQ boat buyers?

If it floats, flies or fucks....cheaper to rent.

Posted: 4/19/2014 6:16:12 PM EDT

[#3]

I might be going senile at 51 but I just started baking about 5 months ago. I was always a good cook but could never bake anything from scratch,now I can and I'm enjoying the fuck out of it.

So far I have made Christmas cookies,Baklava,From scratch chocolate cakes ,cheese danish,Pineapple upside down cake ,Struffoli, Chocolate chip cookies ,Linzer tarts,Apple pies,Cheese cakes, Greek cookies,and just made a fancy cake and another cheese cake for tomorrow after dinner.

Please don't take my man card away !!!

Posted: 4/19/2014 6:24:48 PM EDT

[#4]

You can move to Arizona and drink some homebrew with me...but, I'm still gonna talk about big titties, so I'm not sure that solves your issues.

Posted: 4/19/2014 6:39:02 PM EDT

[#5]

Somehow I picture you looking like Fabio, wearing a black belt and a head band while playing chess and listening to Poison.

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Posted: 4/19/2014 6:40:38 PM EDT

[#6]

Sitting on the front porch in a rocking chair, chewing tobacco, and yelling at kids.

Alright, my old-timey pass-time is wood turning. That seems to be even more dominated by old men than other types of wood working.

My other is shooting from a bench. I call the 100+ yard bench section of my favorite range "Old Man's Row", because it seems to be were all the fat old men hang out.

Posted: 4/19/2014 6:41:42 PM EDT

[#7]

I play whiskey jug.

I also whittle.

Posted: 4/19/2014 7:06:07 PM EDT

[#8]

Posted: 4/19/2014 7:08:44 PM EDT

[#9]

I'm an old fashioned kind of guy.

I like to drink shine, play cards, and then pass out in roadside ditches.

Posted: 4/19/2014 7:22:55 PM EDT

[#10]

I'm an amateur olde-timey barber.
I'll cut the shit out of you to let the bad blood out for $15. (Inflation)

Posted: 4/19/2014 7:33:50 PM EDT

[#11]

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I might be going senile at 51 but I just started baking about 5 months ago. I was always a good cook but could never bake anything from scratch,now I can and I'm enjoying the fuck out of it.

So far I have made Christmas cookies,Baklava,From scratch chocolate cakes ,cheese danish,Pineapple upside down cake ,Struffoli, Chocolate chip cookies ,Linzer tarts,Apple pies,Cheese cakes, Greek cookies,and just made a fancy cake and another cheese cake for tomorrow after dinner.

Please don't take my man card away !!!

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My son works as a welder building commercial size girders and trusses.He is also a damned good cook!

Posted: 4/19/2014 7:56:07 PM EDT

[#12]

Machine Work
Red Man
Screaming
PT
Shooting
Embroidery

Posted: 4/19/2014 7:58:28 PM EDT

[#13]

Playing a real guitar, though it's an electric.

Posted: 4/19/2014 8:04:53 PM EDT

[#14]

1911's (and all my other pistols) in leather holsters

Hunting rifles and made out of wood and blued steel

Drinking straight bourbon

Open doors for my wife

Posted: 4/19/2014 8:08:27 PM EDT

[#15]

Blacksmithing, who the hell blacksmiths anymore. It's basically useless in the modern world but people buy the shit out of stuff I make as long as it looks handmade.

Posted: 4/19/2014 8:18:20 PM EDT

[#16]

I started carving waterfowl decoys by hand this winter and really like it. With learning to carve came learning to paint them obviously. I am carving them from foam right now because it is cheap(er) to learn on. I also became interested in the folk art and traditions of decoys from various areas of the country. I plan to carve some out of cork and wood eventually, but I absolutely can't wait to hunt over my own own hand carved decoys this fall.

Before paint

This is the one closer to the camera above, almost done with paint.

Posted: 4/19/2014 8:23:25 PM EDT

[#17]

Just got into casting round ball for shooting Black Powder this past winter.

And damn if I don't enjoy a good plug tobacco

I'm in my 20's.

Posted: 4/19/2014 8:23:56 PM EDT

[#18]

I cure meats and keep them hanging around the house.

I don't have time for many hobbies, I try to incorporate what I do into something that is constructive for the household.

Next up, wine making.

Posted: 4/19/2014 8:26:24 PM EDT

[#19]

If I won the lottery I would move out in the middle of nowhere, have a shop where I could tinker with antique cars, motorcycles, tractors, and machines, have a forge and smith things for the hell of it, a personal gun range, make my own alcoholic beverages, and a hobby farm.

Posted: 4/19/2014 8:29:06 PM EDT

[#20]

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I might be going senile at 51 but I just started baking about 5 months ago. I was always a good cook but could never bake anything from scratch,now I can and I'm enjoying the fuck out of it.

So far I have made Christmas cookies,Baklava,From scratch chocolate cakes ,cheese danish,Pineapple upside down cake ,Struffoli, Chocolate chip cookies ,Linzer tarts,Apple pies,Cheese cakes, Greek cookies,and just made a fancy cake and another cheese cake for tomorrow after dinner.

Please don't take my man card away !!!

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Baking is awesome and I will dough-fuck anyone who casts aspersions on my cookies.

Posted: 4/19/2014 8:34:32 PM EDT

[#21]

starting of a jacket making punch..

Posted: 4/19/2014 8:52:35 PM EDT

[#22]

You're fine.

I'm an artist that loves guns, shooting, and the 2nd Amendment.

Here's some examples of my 'art'

Posted: 4/19/2014 8:53:32 PM EDT

[#23]

Civil War reenacting
Classical Music
Finger style Guitar
Fishing
Hiking
Reading physical books

Posted: 4/19/2014 8:58:54 PM EDT

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Civil War reenacting
Classical Music
Finger style Guitar
Fishing
Hiking
Reading physical books

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Are there many Civil War reenactors in the Falklands?

Posted: 4/19/2014 9:08:46 PM EDT

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Blacksmithing, who the hell blacksmiths anymore. It's basically useless in the modern world but people buy the shit out of stuff I make as long as it looks handmade.

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Your not the only one into blackamithing, though im no blacksmith i can burn metal pretty good in my forge( im learning as i go)

Posted: 4/19/2014 9:46:13 PM EDT

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Your not the only one into blackamithing, though im no blacksmith i can burn metal pretty good in my forge( im learning as i go)

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Blacksmithing, who the hell blacksmiths anymore. It's basically useless in the modern world but people buy the shit out of stuff I make as long as it looks handmade.

Your not the only one into blackamithing, though im no blacksmith i can burn metal pretty good in my forge( im learning as i go)

Slow heats, get a good soak and have a shady place to work, it let's you get a better read on the color.

Posted: 4/19/2014 10:03:07 PM EDT

[#27]

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Slow heats, get a good soak and have a shady place to work, it let's you get a better read on the color.

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Blacksmithing, who the hell blacksmiths anymore. It's basically useless in the modern world but people buy the shit out of stuff I make as long as it looks handmade.

Your not the only one into blackamithing, though im no blacksmith i can burn metal pretty good in my forge( im learning as i go)

Slow heats, get a good soak and have a shady place to work, it let's you get a better read on the color.

Yeah. I just need more practice, do you use coal or hardwood charcol?

Posted: 4/19/2014 10:05:30 PM EDT

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I might be going senile at 51 but I just started baking about 5 months ago. I was always a good cook but could never bake anything from scratch,now I can and I'm enjoying the fuck out of it.

So far I have made Christmas cookies,Baklava,From scratch chocolate cakes ,cheese danish,Pineapple upside down cake ,Struffoli, Chocolate chip cookies ,Linzer tarts,Apple pies,Cheese cakes, Greek cookies,and just made a fancy cake and another cheese cake for tomorrow after dinner.

Please don't take my man card away !!!

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That's awesome.

Posted: 4/19/2014 10:06:51 PM EDT

[#29]

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I'm an amateur olde-timey barber.
I'll cut the shit out of you to let the bad blood out for $15. (Inflation)

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Posted: 4/19/2014 10:09:45 PM EDT

[#30]

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I cure meats and keep them hanging around the house.

I don't have time for many hobbies, I try to incorporate what I do into something that is constructive for the household.

Next up, wine making.

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Have you looked into biltong? Or as we should refer to it in the US Bolt-tang?

Posted: 4/19/2014 10:19:41 PM EDT

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Yeah. I just need more practice, do you use coal or hardwood charcol?

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Coal and propane, I prefer propane for forge welding but there is something I love about using coal.

Posted: 4/20/2014 9:26:40 AM EDT

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Have you looked into biltong? Or as we should refer to it in the US Bolt-tang?

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I cure meats and keep them hanging around the house.

I don't have time for many hobbies, I try to incorporate what I do into something that is constructive for the household.

Next up, wine making.

Have you looked into biltong? Or as we should refer to it in the US Bolt-tang?

I had not. I will make some during the next round. Thanks.

Posted: 4/20/2014 9:39:50 AM EDT

[#33]

70's porn?

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Posted: 4/20/2014 9:42:59 AM EDT

[#34]

Black powder, blacksmithing,woodworking, a good plug tabbaco, cartridge collecting, doing the bucksking and civil war stuff, and reading and exploring local historical sites.

I'm in my 30's and have very little in common with people in my age group.

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