Weekend Hobby, Crafts and General Bodging Thread

Greetings gang. Hope the weekend is going well. Time once again to head for the basement, garage, shop, studio, craft room or wherever it is you can escape for a few hours and lose yourself in something creative, or just make a mess and have fun.

NOTE: This is NOT an open thread. Please limit comments to the subject of this thread only.

What's everyone working on, planning or just dreaming about?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 04:27 PM

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1 My hobby lately is eating normal.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 04:26 PM (VwHCD)

2 Damn, nobody here.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 04:27 PM (VwHCD)

3 I literally just got home from the "hobby store", good timing. Also, I spent *mumblty* hundred dollars there.

Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2024 04:31 PM (VARTN)

4 I tried the plank and frame wooden ship model thing once and realized that I am not a doctor because I have no patience.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 23, 2024 04:37 PM (QNSds)

5 I literally just got home from the "hobby store", good timing. Also, I spent *mumblty* hundred dollars there.

Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2024 04:31 PM (VARTN)

You're lucky. Anything "hobby store" in my world you leave with your ass smoking.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 04:39 PM (VwHCD)

6 I posted my latest landscape on my site Stuppleart.com if anyone is interested .

Cruz Bay in St Thomas

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 04:44 PM (MNhXM)

7 You're lucky. Anything "hobby store" in my world you leave with your ass smoking.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 04:39 PM

It was a little over $600 today. But I got a lot of cool stuff. At least, it's cool to me.

Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2024 04:45 PM (VARTN)

8 I went to Michaels today and with their 70% off sale and my $15 points voucher I got a $85 36 x 48 gallery wrapped canvas for $11.35.

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 04:47 PM (MNhXM)

9 Actually, I started looking through boxes of guitar parts I made before I moved and ultimately had to pack up. Necks, and tops, and backs, and sides. If I started now it would take a year to finish them all. The bummer is the place I was buying a lot of materials from closed up. That really sucks, they had everything.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 04:47 PM (VwHCD)

10 It was a little over $600 today. But I got a lot of cool stuff. At least, it's cool to me.

Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2024 04:45 PM (VARTN)

Sounds like tools were involved. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 04:48 PM (VwHCD)

11 Heading home with a brand new Yaesu FTDX-10. Won't be able to play with it right away, but soon.

Posted by: PabloD at March 23, 2024 04:49 PM (8hbnr)

12 Actually, I started looking through boxes of guitar parts I made before I moved and ultimately had to pack up. Necks, and tops, and backs, and sides. If I started now it would take a year to finish them all. The bummer is the place I was buying a lot of materials from closed up. That really sucks, they had everything.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 04:47 PM

Wasn't there some lumber place that sold wood to build guitars and other instruments that got raided and shut down by the Feds? I recall something about them buying/selling wood that was protected or something like that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 23, 2024 04:50 PM (QNSds)

13 Welcome Hobbiests
Cast another block of Plaster Paris for a metal casting, though hard in a half hour know from previous experience it takes at least a week to get all moisture out. Then will carve in my medallion and pour it with plumbing solder.
So maybe within 2 weeks will have something hopefully special.

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2024 04:51 PM (fwDg9)

14 I spent almost $60 this week on paints and thinners for my continued experiments trying to get a real mirror finish gloss coat for car models. I've resigned myself to the fact that I won't get there with acrylics. I've heard others swear they get perfect finishes with things like Future liquid floor wax, but I must live in an alternate universe with different physical properties because I could never get it to work. Spraying light coats, heavy coats, low pressure, medium pressure, high pressure, near, far ... I could never get anything to work.

So now I got some toxic Mr Hobby Leveling Thinner that a lot of YouTubers say is the key, plus a few other gloss clear paints, and will try that out. Not looking forward to the noxious atmosphere it will create. At least I'll be able to test out how well my spray booth really works.

Posted by: spindrift at March 23, 2024 04:52 PM (1qxHl)

15 The model train vid reminded me of the movie The Station Agent.

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 04:56 PM (MNhXM)

16 Michaels and the Art supply store were packed. The hobbyists were re-supplying today.

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 04:58 PM (MNhXM)

17 Does Cannibal Bob or Masterbating Pete ever comment on the hobby thread?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 23, 2024 05:01 PM (cOq4q)

18 Wasn't there some lumber place that sold wood to build guitars and other instruments that got raided and shut down by the Feds? I recall something about them buying/selling wood that was protected or something like that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 23, 2024 04:50 PM (QNSds)

That was Gibson guitars. That was fucking Obama being the marxist piece of monkey shit that he is. It was all bullshit. They eventually got their wood returned, and then made commemorative guitars with it that came with a certificate explaining the bullshit raid. I got one, made damn sure of it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 05:04 PM (VwHCD)

19 Sounds like tools were involved. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 04:48 PM (VwHCD)

Close: amateur radio and accessories.

Heading home with a brand new Yaesu FTDX-10. Won't be able to play with it right away, but soon.

Posted by: PabloD at March 23, 2024 04:49 PM

I've got one sitting here next to me. Just added an IC-2730 so I can try out satellites. You're going to love that FTDX-10!

Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2024 05:04 PM (VARTN)

20 I putter about.
Fixed hole in chicken coop I just noticed while getting tools to replace dome light in 2008 Kia (engine I replaced one head and timing system due to it throwing a chain a couple of years ago).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 23, 2024 05:04 PM (cOq4q)

21 So today's shopping list:

- 125' of coax for an HF antenna project
- Icom IC-2730 radio so I can experiment with satellites
- A dummy load
- An external speaker
- An antenna mag mount
- Three ham sticks to complete my collection (6m, 10m, and 75m today)
- Other misc supplies, odds and ends, and bits and bobs

Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2024 05:08 PM (VARTN)

22 I’ll pimp my friend’s website again.

Infinityguitars.com

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 05:08 PM (MNhXM)

23 Tying knots and gluing thread to draft horses made me appreciate these sailing ship models, no idea how they do it

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2024 05:10 PM (fwDg9)

24 Is drinking a hobby?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2024 05:12 PM (ENQN6)

25 Posted by: spindrift at March 23, 2024 04:52 PM (1qxHl)

I swear by Mr. Leveling Thinner, and buy it whenever I see it anywhere - I have a huge stash at this point.

I build 1/32 custom aircraft models as a side job (and I've even sold to some Morons in good standing here!), and use Mr. Leveling Thinner at every step along the way.

For a true, no-shit gloss finish, I'd try Mr. Leveling Thinner with MRP-048 (Super Clear Gloss from the Mr. Paint line) at about 1:2. I spray a straight wet coat at about 12psi through a Creos 290 airbrush tied into an Iwata SmartJet Pro and have never had trouble.

Now, I'm not looking for a car clear coat, but rather a pre-decal coat to prevent silvering, but I bet it would work.

As an alternative, you can try USC SprayMax 2K Glamour High Gloss Aerosol Clear. It's a two-part clear with a compartment you puncture prior to spraying. I use it when I paint custom goalie helmets, motorcycle gas tanks, things like that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 23, 2024 05:13 PM (/nCD+)

26 So today's shopping list:

- 125' of coax for an HF antenna project
- Icom IC-2730 radio so I can experiment with satellites
- A dummy load
- An external speaker
- An antenna mag mount
- Three ham sticks to complete my collection (6m, 10m, and 75m today)
- Other misc supplies, odds and ends, and bits and bobs

Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2024 05:08 PM (VARTN)

I suddenly got an image of a dude sitting in a basement among 50 yards of dangling wire, a half dozen or so monitors, a few keyboards with cigarette burns, radio equipment, and wearing a wife beater. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 05:13 PM (VwHCD)

27 My mom used to have this model from 20 Mule Team. It had the big wagon and the full team. Nice when complete but lots of lines.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 23, 2024 05:15 PM (yeEu9)

28 I spent countless hours looking into how draft animals are used, horses, Mules and oxen.

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2024 05:18 PM (fwDg9)

29 "The Battle of Berlin - A complete how-to guide..."

You know who could have used this video?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 23, 2024 05:21 PM (guGkK)

30 Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 23, 2024 05:13 PM (/nCD+)

Thanks for the tips. The first application once I'm done experimenting will actually be for a pre-decal coat on a 1/48 Spitfire, so hopefully that will work out well with the Leveling Thinner.

Posted by: spindrift at March 23, 2024 05:23 PM (1qxHl)

31
My mom used to have this model from 20 Mule Team. It had the big wagon and the full team. Nice when complete but lots of lines.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Imagine the full size actual 20 mule team.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 23, 2024 05:28 PM (63Dwl)

32 Is drinking a hobby?
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 23, 2024 05:12 PM (ENQN6)

If you don't turn a profit at it, yes.

Posted by: Your Friends at the IRS at March 23, 2024 05:28 PM (guGkK)

33 Posted by: spindrift at March 23, 2024 05:23 PM (1qxHl)

I think it'll be perfect, then.

For me, I've found that a pre-decal clear coat is like insurance. You don't really have to have it... Until you do.

I build nearly exclusively 1/32, but apply my final paint scheme with a .5mm airbrush. It takes FOREVER, but the mottling and depth effects I'm able to create are simply unmatched, and it's smooth enough to decal straight over if I wanted to. Every once in a while, though, you just NEED that gloss coat, and you don't know until after, so I still use one even though all of my principle markings are custom cut with my mask plotter.

I learned it from Matt Doogs, the owner of doogsmodels dot com. He has how-to's, full-blown builds, reviews, et al. He's a priceless wealth of information.

I've got an A-6E TRAM Intruder on the bench now that just came out of markings and is going into weathering. It won't be as beat up as my Corsair from the Pacific theatre, but it'll be grungy. The clear coat technique we're talking about here is what I put down to protect the paint job from the oils and washes I lay down during weathering, and it does a fine job.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 23, 2024 05:30 PM (/nCD+)

34 Gubs is a hobby.

Posted by: Eromero at March 23, 2024 05:31 PM (o2ZRX)

35 Afternoon, folken,

Missed the Pet Thread; I went to a renter's rights meeting at the nearby library. The issues with my current apartment dump are dragging on, and the only people who show up to these things just want to complain instead of trying to plan action. Well, I got a free pizza out of it at least.

Stirling the great black cat got a steroid shot at the vet this morning, as they suspect his thinning fur spots might be due to an allergy. What kind, we don't know. He weighs in at 14 lbs. now, and this vet did not think he was overweight. Good thing; I tried to cut his diet a little after his last appointment, and he's gained a half pound.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 23, 2024 05:32 PM (omVj0)

36 Sorting through my slot car collection. Keeping some but putting a bunch on eBay. Need to make money to buy more.

Posted by: oldraceral at March 23, 2024 05:35 PM (MFXsO)

37 Working on sharping some kitchen knives. I think there are some, for whatever reason will not take an edge regardless the method.

Sharping rod
Block
File
Wheel
Banging with a hammer
etc.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 23, 2024 05:35 PM (Q4IgG)

38 6 ... " I posted my latest landscape on my site Stuppleart.com if anyone is interested .
Cruz Bay in St Thomas"

Polynikes,

I like that painting. You can feel the warmth and sunlight. And the water and boats look almost photo-realistic.

Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 05:35 PM (zudum)

39 I suddenly got an image of a dude sitting in a basement among 50 yards of dangling wire, a half dozen or so monitors, a few keyboards with cigarette burns, radio equipment, and wearing a wife beater. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 05:13 PM

Pretty close, lol. Converted garage, lets not get into the spaghetti of wiring, presently 6 monitors and a tv, three keyboards at present, three radios on the air right now plus a scanner. No wife beater, but a blue t-shirt and khaki cargos. And I quit smoking eight years ago.

I still have to add the ADSB receiver. And I'm rebuilding/reorganizing my "field" kits. I have separate ones for Parks on the Air and Summits on the Air.

Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2024 05:37 PM (VARTN)

40 You're lucky. Anything "hobby store" in my world you leave with your ass smoking.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 04:39 PM (VwHCD)

The one in Angeles City is a hoot!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 23, 2024 05:40 PM (0eaVi)

41 Hope this isn't considered OT.

The Berlin diorama reminded me of a story told to me by an elderly German lady who was in Berlin in 1945 as a young girl. When her dad saw a German tank setting up shop outside their flat, he decided it was time to get out of town. They made it to American lines and only came back when it was clear that their home was in the American Zone. Thus she missed having to interact with the Russians.

She later married a G. I. and came to the states.

Posted by: RS at March 23, 2024 05:41 PM (E7m29)

42 - Three ham sticks to complete my collection (6m, 10m, and 75m today)
-------
*!?*

What... no 73cm yagi?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2024 05:44 PM (XeU6L)

43 What... no 73cm yagi?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 23, 2024 05:44 PM

I've got an Elk already, lol.

Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2024 05:47 PM (VARTN)

44 I like that painting. You can feel the warmth and sunlight. And the water and boats look almost photo-realistic.
Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 05:35 PM (zudum)

Thanks JTB. I’m trying to lock in my style which is in between Impressionism and photo realism. I don’t use any mediums or drying agents and paint only straight from the tube which makes you have to come up with different techniques.

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 05:48 PM (MNhXM)

45 Oh man, I see a trip to Michaels tomorrow. Sounds like my best chance to get some decent canvases at a good price. Have to hope the overwhelming percentage of customers are women getting acrylic yarn and fake flowers.

Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 05:48 PM (zudum)

46 44 ... "I’m trying to lock in my style which is in between Impressionism and photo realism. I don’t use any mediums or drying agents and paint only straight from the tube which makes you have to come up with different techniques."

I think you are getting it. Glad you mentioned combining the two styles as that was what I was thinking with the land and buildings vs the water and boats. I didn't know using straight from the tube mattered for technique.

Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 05:52 PM (zudum)

47 polynikes, I very much like your 'desert gulch' picture.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 05:55 PM (66Dq6)

48 I suppose this counts as Hobby / Bodging. My amateur radio license was due for renewal, which these days must be done online, at the FCC website. Since I only need to do this every ten years, and because the FCC changes the process more frequently than ten years, it's always an adventure.

Normally I use the Firefox web browser. Using Firefox I was able to log on to the FCC site and get half way through the renewal process, but half way through it just stopped working, no error, it just stopped. I've run into this occasionally, and the "solution" is usually to use Edge. Sure enough, I was able to finish the process.

US Government : Microsoft has a monopoly on web browsers, so we're going to punish them.

Also US Government : You must use Microsoft's monopoly web browser to do business with us.

Posted by: BillyD at March 23, 2024 05:56 PM (F6Xpw)

49 Posted by: BillyD at March 23, 2024 05:56 PM

Yeah, the site is all weird and like you mentioned, they just recently changed it up again. Make sure you have updated your FRN before you do anything else, they now require an email address for contact. They literally don't care about your address.

Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2024 05:59 PM (VARTN)

50 I've been sketching with the new TWSBI Eco fountain pens. Very different from using fineliners. The results are kind of humorous right now but I think using them will improve things. Once I get my desk cleared off, a monumental task and possibly its own hobby, I can start playing with my dip pens.

Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 05:59 PM (zudum)

51 26

I suddenly got an image of a dude sitting in a basement among 50 yards of dangling wire, a half dozen or so monitors, a few keyboards with cigarette burns, radio equipment, and wearing a wife beater. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 05:13 PM (VwHCD)

Shit! Did I forget to turn off my webcam ?

Posted by: BillyD at March 23, 2024 06:00 PM (F6Xpw)

52 polynikes, I very much like your 'desert gulch' picture.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 05:55 PM (66Dq6)

Thanks BH.

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 06:01 PM (MNhXM)

53 I used to watch RFD TV a lot. They run Rural Heritage shows. They did have one with a large team, at least ten horses, and it took work to get them shorted out. Small Farms Journal used to have a lot of info on horse and mule teams. Have never done it myself.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 23, 2024 06:04 PM (yeEu9)

54 I like being surrounded by art, mostly Southwestern
I am a fan of Amado Pena and R.C Gorman

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:07 PM (66Dq6)

55 49 Posted by: BillyD at March 23, 2024 05:56 PM

Yeah, the site is all weird and like you mentioned, they just recently changed it up again. Make sure you have updated your FRN before you do anything else, they now require an email address for contact. They literally don't care about your address.

Posted by: Bert G at March 23, 2024 05:59 PM (VARTN)

I was able to get half logged in with my FRN and the associated password from ten years ago, and updated the information using Firefox, but when I tried to go to where you actually do the renewal, it just got stuck trying to log in again. Using Edge did the trick. Chrome would probably work, also, but I avoid Gooooogle as much as possible. I got a "Card Not Present" warning email from the credit card I used to pay for the renewal, as expected, so I think it worked.

Posted by: BillyD at March 23, 2024 06:08 PM (F6Xpw)

56 Work continues apace on the kitchen redo. Bought the last of the appliances today after measuring, remeasuring and remeasuring again. Monday the guys will be out to template the new countertop material. Ran the upgraded electrical romex in the appropriate spot.

All this started simply when I only wanted a new microwave.

Sheesh.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 23, 2024 06:10 PM (WXNFJ)

57 Tonypete, that"ll learn ya.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:14 PM (66Dq6)

58 Oh, and finally found a decent pair of wall ovens without Wifi.

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 23, 2024 06:14 PM (WXNFJ)

59 like being surrounded by art, mostly Southwestern
I am a fan of Amado Pena and R.C Gorman

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:07 PM (66Dq6)

Yes I like both of their color palettes. It’s my preferred palette.

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 06:15 PM (MNhXM)

60 I sent a few sketches to Mis. Hum. on the thread's gmail account as he requested. If any get posted at some point your reactions could be interesting. As I said in the email, I don't regard my attempts as good, just VASTLY improved from my first efforts.

Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 06:17 PM (zudum)

61 I drew some aliens for a possible animation. "Possible" means I haven't gotten bored or the idea yet.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 23, 2024 06:18 PM (CHHv1)

62 JTB, can't wait to see them.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:19 PM (66Dq6)

63 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 23, 2024 06:20 PM (T4tVD)

64 It stopped raining here.

FINALLY !

Posted by: JT at March 23, 2024 06:21 PM (T4tVD)

65
Starting on a series of abstract sculptures made out of papier mache. I want to do them in ceramic but just don't have access to a kiln.

Love this medium, and the last time I tried it was when I was a kid.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2024 06:21 PM (x0n13)

66 Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 06:17 PM (zudum)

Looking forward to seeing them.

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 06:24 PM (MNhXM)

67 JJ, some community colleges have kilns in their art dept that might work with you.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:25 PM (66Dq6)

68 Picked up wall tiles for a new backsplash, new sump pump for the big melt, and a screen door.

Posted by: scampydog at March 23, 2024 06:25 PM (k9Vm4)

69 The pottery video is very useful. I have hell with handles and he shows very good techniques and gives useful tips. Plus he has a website with more videos.

Thanks

Posted by: javems at March 23, 2024 06:26 PM (8I4hW)

70 JJ, microwave drying might also be a possibility for your project

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:28 PM (66Dq6)

71 Woot!

Just finished cutting the grass in my yard for the first time this calendar year.

My 16-year-old push mower started up like a champ!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 23, 2024 06:29 PM (BpYfr)

72 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2024 06:21 PM (x0n13)

You definitely have to post photos when they are completed. I bought different sized metal round bar with intention of doing an abstract sculpture. I think I will finally get around to it after I finish my current painting.

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 06:29 PM (MNhXM)

73 Actually, I started looking through boxes of guitar parts I made before I moved and ultimately had to pack up. Necks, and tops, and backs, and sides. If I started now it would take a year to finish them all. The bummer is the place I was buying a lot of materials from closed up. That really sucks, they had everything.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 04:47 PM (VwHCD)

Have you heard anything about the new Optical guitar pickups? They let you use nylon strings since they use laser diodes to pick up string vibration instead of magnetic induction from the metal strings

Posted by: Kindltot at March 23, 2024 06:31 PM (D7oie)

74 Ben Had and Polynikes,
They are just pencil or ink sketches and pretty basic. But they are recognizable which is better than my first efforts which could give surrealism a bad name. All my attempts are freehand copies from photos or other drawings. I can't create an image from memory so far. I need the reference.

Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 06:32 PM (zudum)

75 polynikes, I mentioned before that I made towel rack out of rebar shaped like a tree and forged leaves to put on it. That was a fun and useful project.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:33 PM (66Dq6)

76 Rural Heritage is a show on RFD-TV that features draft animals for farm work and traveling. It's on Saturday afternoons.

Posted by: Muley at March 23, 2024 06:37 PM (V5BDR)

77 65 ... "Starting on a series of abstract sculptures made out of papier mache."

Wow, J. J.,
I haven't thought about papier mache for around 60 years. As I recall, it was fun back in grade school.

Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 06:37 PM (zudum)

78 I can't create an image from memory so far. I need the reference.
Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 06:32 PM (zudum)

You and most of the most famous artists in history.

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 06:38 PM (MNhXM)

79 Bought an old Shopsmith from a friend (multi purpose woodworking tool) then had another one that I will refurbish given to me. I want to do some lathe woodworking. And build a greenhouse for Heidi. She's becoming quite the homesteader.

Ben!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 23, 2024 06:41 PM (wM304)

80 Well except for livestock,

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 23, 2024 06:42 PM (wM304)

81 Thanks JJ. Love this thread.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 23, 2024 06:42 PM (wM304)

82 Have you heard anything about the new Optical guitar pickups? They let you use nylon strings since they use laser diodes to pick up string vibration instead of magnetic induction from the metal strings

Posted by: Kindltot at March 23, 2024 06:31 PM (D7oie)

Damn, never heard of that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 06:44 PM (VwHCD)

83 Cannibal Bob, now that is an awesome project.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:44 PM (66Dq6)

84 polynikes, I mentioned before that I made towel rack out of rebar shaped like a tree and forged leaves to put on it. That was a fun and useful project.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:33 PM (66Dq6)

That sounds like a beautiful piece of useful decor.

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 06:44 PM (MNhXM)

85 All this started simply when I only wanted a new microwave.

Sheesh.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 23, 2024 06:10 PM (WXNFJ)

Same here. Just wanted to get the microwave from over the cook top. Forty thousand later I got my wish.

Posted by: javems at March 23, 2024 06:44 PM (8I4hW)

86 Aside from a few Thomas Kinkade prints for the guest room, all the art on our walls is mine.

My Mom loves Kinkade paintings.

Wonder how much of that is because that's my surname?

His technique was very good, but I find it boring.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at March 23, 2024 06:44 PM (MvA9C)

87 Just came in from bodging on the Corvair. Packed, installed new front wheel bearings, tightened, adjusted drums, bled brakes. All jobs I dislike. Wheel bearing grease is nasty to handle, and you have to handle it. I wear nitrile gloves and have gone through 200 pairs in the last 18 months.

I watched a Youtube video about Corvair wheel bearings, because I've only ever done VW brakes, etc. before. The fella doing the video packed the bearings without gloves. Goes against me.

Posted by: Air-cooled Al at March 23, 2024 06:45 PM (V5BDR)

88 Cannibal Bob, surely one little goat would be ok!

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:46 PM (66Dq6)

89 polynikes, I mentioned before that I made towel rack out of rebar shaped like a tree and forged leaves to put on it. That was a fun and useful project.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:33 PM (66Dq6)

Before Kinkade decided to become a multi millionaire as the painter of light, his landscapes were amazing IMO.

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 06:47 PM (MNhXM)

90 So I was trying to copy Pug .

My Mom loves Kinkade paintings.

Wonder how much of that is because that's my surname?

His technique was very good, but I find it boring.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at March 23, 2024 06:44 PM (MvA9C)

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 06:48 PM (MNhXM)

91 Don't recall if I mentioned this last week. Pete Beard has a YT channel about various illustrators, especially from the golden age in the late 1800s to mid-1900s. They show a lot of examples, many I hadn't seen before and gives some background on the artists and techniques. I'm finding it fascinating and addictive.

Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 06:49 PM (zudum)

92 Posted by: Pug Mahon, My Two Cents at March 23, 2024 06:44 PM (MvA9C

You need to send in photos of your work.

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 06:49 PM (MNhXM)

93 Tested my wiring of the Tundra 7 pin install. All worked on a 4 day camping trip.
Checked my astronomy binos before I left... no bueno, I guess when I knocked them over vacuuming I bent one of the tubes. I knew I should have let the other half do the vacuuming!
Last ones were 20x80, new ones will be 25x100 from Orion. They are backordered so I get a to wait a bit before I can get them.
I used my small set to see Mercury on Wed or was it Thurs? No luck with the small ones. I'll have to wait until next year.
I did catch a couple of pics of the SpaceX launch out of Vandenberg. I'll send them along to the hobby thread.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 23, 2024 06:51 PM (hGiGG)

94 Hiya Cannibal !

Regards to Heidi !

Posted by: JT at March 23, 2024 06:53 PM (T4tVD)

95 AZdeplorable, how's that sunburn coming!

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:54 PM (66Dq6)

96 Air Cooled Al, I really enjoy reading about your progress reports on the Corvair. Keep them coming. There is a tool that holds a tapered roller bearing that you can pump grease into with a grease gun. Works for me.

Posted by: Ronster at March 23, 2024 06:54 PM (X/vd3)

97 The Battle of Berlin diorama vid is kinda neat. There are a goodly number of movies made about the immediate aftermath of the war with people living in the rubble, the US vs. Soviet dynamic, returning lost children, GIs falling in love with German women, refugees looking to leave, etc. The movement of millions of displaced worldwide didn't really end until 1950.

Posted by: Barney Rubble at March 23, 2024 06:54 PM (V5BDR)

98 Damn, never heard of that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 23, 2024 06:44 PM (VwHCD)

You can also run the amp through bluetooth, and because of that you can use your smart phone.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 23, 2024 06:55 PM (D7oie)

99 Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 06:49 PM (zudum)

If you want to watch another interesting story of an illustrator look up the doc on Tyrus Wong. He was one of the main illustrators of the Bambi movie. The background scenes.

He lived to 103 IIRC. The last part of his life he constructed beautiful kites,

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 06:55 PM (MNhXM)

100 AZdeplorable, how's that sunburn coming!
Posted by: Ben Had

Nicely!
In a couple of days it'll be tan and then I'll peel most of it; but, I'll still look a bit like a raccoon.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 23, 2024 06:57 PM (hGiGG)

101 Kites, how to enjoy childhood again. 40 mph wind predicted for tomorrow. Break out the kite

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:58 PM (66Dq6)

102 70 JJ, microwave drying might also be a possibility for your project
Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:28 PM (66Dq6)

I have an old toaster oven. I use wallpaper paste and brown wrapping paper plus "Papier Mache Clay" that has been invented/popularized by a woman on You Tube, Johnnie Good and her website Ultimate Paper Mache. Works a treat!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2024 06:58 PM (x0n13)

103 67 JJ, some community colleges have kilns in their art dept that might work with you.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:25 PM (66Dq6)

It was a breeze when I lived in NYC, but living in the sticks it's a bit harder. I will look into it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 23, 2024 07:00 PM (x0n13)

104 101 Kites, how to enjoy childhood again. 40 mph wind predicted for tomorrow. Break out the kite
Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 06:58 PM (66Dq6)

So relaxing .

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 07:00 PM (MNhXM)

105 I had lots of Gub hobby stuff planned today, but woke up with The Flu.
Bah, humbug.

Posted by: RI Red at March 23, 2024 07:05 PM (Kiwh3)

106 99 ... "If you want to watch another interesting story of an illustrator look up the doc on Tyrus Wong. He was one of the main illustrators of the Bambi movie. The background scenes."

Polynikes,
Thanks for the heads up.

Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 07:05 PM (zudum)

107 My understanding of draft teams, each pair of horses or Mules in the line pulls less than the team before, read it as a less return in pulling power the more teams you have.
Can't say still get why.

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2024 07:05 PM (fwDg9)

108 At beach I always flew my kite a few days

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2024 07:07 PM (fwDg9)

109 Skip, dependent on the weight of the load to be pulled.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 07:08 PM (66Dq6)

110 My understanding of draft teams, each pair of horses or Mules in the line pulls less than the team before, read it as a less return in pulling power the more teams you have.
Can't say still get why.
Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2024 07:05 PM (fwDg9)

Mammoth Jacks and Percheron mares
Grazing up and down my dreams
Nothin' less than sixteen hands
I don't wanna drag my feet
Anything more small than that
It ain't worth the feed it takes
Give me big 'ol Mammoth Jacks
Throwin' mules the size of tanks...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 23, 2024 07:09 PM (R/m4+)

111 J. J.,

A lot of senior centers offer classes in various things and might have a kiln to use. Bound to be some such set up in your area.

Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 07:09 PM (zudum)

112 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 6-42 - LC-39A - KSC

SpaceX is targeting Saturday, March 23 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

New T-Zero: Liftoff is targeted March 23, for 7:29 p.m. EDT, 23:29 UTC, (00:29 CET, March 24).
https://tinyurl.com/mryuac4w

Posted by: Ciampino - ROCKET SCIENCE coming up at March 23, 2024 07:10 PM (qfLjt)

113 The pair hitched closest to the wagon are the initial pullers not the lead hitch.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 07:10 PM (66Dq6)

114 "Aside from a few Thomas Kinkade prints for the guest room. . ."

Years ago, he tried to sue a client of mine for selling his prints in her second hand shop. Claimed his "copyright" didn't allow it.

He lost.

Kinduva jerk, as I recall. Personality conflicted with the subject matter of his art.

Posted by: RS at March 23, 2024 07:11 PM (E7m29)

115 Had a guy on Monterey Beach ask if I'd hold his kite.

Yea... no... fucking thing lifted me right out of the sand up about 20 feet.

Asshole. But... it was a thrill. For about 10 seconds.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 23, 2024 07:12 PM (Q4IgG)

116 Got the oneTRC-449 finished this week. It works and seems to work pretty well. So I took the second one I had with a bad speaker and defiled the corpse of another radio to fix that.

Now I'm trying to decide if I want to fix the CPI BC2000 so I can have an inline frequency counter again or dive into the DAK Mark X that I finally have all the caps for. Or maybe the Centurion 40D with the bad PLL module...

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at March 23, 2024 07:14 PM (HxasW)

117 Just after I posted the launch time was changed:
SNew T-Zero: Liftoff is targeted for 8:21 p.m. EDT (00:21 UTC, 01:21 CET March 24).

Posted by: Ciampino - ROCKET SCIENCE coming up ... at March 23, 2024 07:15 PM (qfLjt)

118 Just after I posted the launch time was changed

They're obviously watching your posts here so they can mess with you.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at March 23, 2024 07:17 PM (HxasW)

119 Hanging with granddaughter #1 as we work our way thru Seattle's Pike Place Market. Her hobby...shopping. Mine: beer stops and oysters.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2024 07:21 PM (BrJjn)

120 Diogenes, the perfect compliment to each other.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 07:24 PM (66Dq6)

121 Hanging with granddaughter #1 as we work our way thru Seattle's Pike Place Market. Her hobby...shopping. Mine: beer stops and oysters.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 23, 2024 07:21 PM (BrJjn

No golf shops?

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 07:29 PM (MNhXM)

122 I am out of miniatures, finished a collie dog and no place to put him. Soldiers love dogs.
Probably try and fit him on a wagon stand.
No plans to get any for awhile.

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2024 07:30 PM (fwDg9)

123 Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2024 07:30 PM (fwDg9)

Do you make battlefields for your miniatures?
Camps?

Posted by: polynikes at March 23, 2024 07:32 PM (MNhXM)

124 Polynikes, I really like the railroad picture. Everything but the abstracts I find nice (just don't like abstract art), but that particular picture resonates with me. I just love it.

I haven't done any crafting, sewing, drawing or anything fun, but I did rearrange and reorganize my craft/sewing room. Got rid of junk I was saving "just in case," got some new shelves put up. Feels lighter and more enticing now than the piles, even neat piles, felt.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 23, 2024 07:37 PM (JrYM1)

125 Studebodging today. Figured I would put the overdrive transmission into the '60 Lark. Loaded everything I thought I would need into the Lark, and drove over to my buddy's place, where he has a 4-post hoist. Got the car on the hoist, and the original 3-speed transmission, without overdrive, came out with no trouble at all.

Uh-oh! One of the rubber biscuits supporting the back of engine was all oil-soaked, smooshed down to half its normal thickness. There was a mighty struggle to get the bad one out, and a better one (which, fortuitously, I had on hand there) in its place.

Then I was faced with the problem of getting a heavy cast iron transmission up above my head, and carefully stabbed into the clutch so as to not break anything. I wound up setting the transmission on a barrel, lowering the hoist, and then shifting it off the barrel onto a pair planks resting on the ramps of the hoist. It's now bolted in, but not yet fully hooked up. Another day...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 23, 2024 07:38 PM (tkR6S)

126 When I'm too old and incapacitated I would make a study of the destiny of great men like Chuchill and Patton and how they understood war.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 23, 2024 07:39 PM (66Dq6)

127 Could but up a battlefield game board
https://tinyurl.com/7ze5d9mf

Often on a game there is a camp, been doing 7 Year war battles and a few have had camps as a goal to get ransacked

Posted by: Skip at March 23, 2024 07:41 PM (fwDg9)

128 nood

Posted by: vic at March 23, 2024 07:43 PM (A5THL)

129 Ive been learning watercolor painting from watching a bunch if utoobs Its so fun and relaxing and watercolors are way more forgiving than i thought they would be

Posted by: LASue at March 23, 2024 07:43 PM (Ed8Zd)

130 Wheel bearings are best packed in the palm of your bare hand. I've been doing it that way for some odd 29 x 2 years now.

Posted by: fd at March 23, 2024 07:46 PM (7PNM7)

131 I'm reading a biography of Eisenhower. He understood it too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 23, 2024 07:49 PM (yeEu9)

132 129 ... LASue,

I hope you re correct about watercolors being more forgiving than expected, When I finally try them, I'll need all the edge I can get. Glad you are enjoying them.

Posted by: JTB at March 23, 2024 07:51 PM (zudum)

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