What's Your Other Hobby?

[BD]

Used to be: Boating, whitewater kayaking and hunting. lately its: work, work and work. Must be time to retire again. I've "retired" four times so far. Unfortunately I never seem to take enough money along to make it stick.
BD

[felix]

My house always rumbles as the two JBL Pro 4645B 18" subs at 900 WPC go infrasonic at 15HZ.

Man, that reminds me of the good 'ol days. We used 18" Hartley's bolted to concrete enclosures, or in one special situation to the floor of a house trailer for the rumble effect only. The en-total speaker array typically used Acoustec Model 10s, or Altec theater speakers plus Quad electrostats for the otherwise full range (organ + airy strings) classical gurus. Everything was set up with adjustable electronic crossovers, typically called parametrics nowadays. We even got Altec to modify their 3rd octave equalizer for the house trailer application to include a 15 cycle rheostat in place of their 20K which no body could hear in that place with authority anyway. Blame that on rock-n-roll parties at 85db plus. However, if the sound tracks from Midway or BattleoftheBulge did not make you dive under the nearest couch, you were already dead. ... felix

[fixit]

my handle says part of it! i love making broke things work! i also tend to create much by adaptation or from scratch. woodwork, metalwork, gunsmithing,auto repair, general tinking, and for the past 10 to 15 years i've gotten pretty deep into bow building.

[blackthorn]

Retired 4 times! Looks like it will stick this time! Still able to hunt a bit but stopped taking shots that take all day to get the Moose out of the bush. Mostly just go for the trip and to spend some time with my boys. Help the odd person with problems related to workers compensation or unemployment insurance and the like (just to keep my hand in). Spend time with LOML! Life is GOOD.

[Ozarklongshot]

Used to have an offroad jeep and street bikes and did skydiving videographer. Wife said I needed to pick one. Sold the bike and the Jeep. She said "thats not the direction I was hoping for" Still a skydiver but can't see that lasting much longer. To much stuff on my plate these days

[468]

Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Han mu do...woodworking...1968 Firebird

[BOOM BOOM]

HI,
DID I MENTION I LIKE TO SHOOT A BIT?
Teach jujitsu 4 hr./wk & karate 4hrs./wk, get firewood during summer, oh my aching back.
HUNTING, HUNTING,HUNTING.

[Don Purcell]

Building plastic scale model aircraft and occasionally WW2 German armor. Also the old sailing ships. Getting things together to also start building large scale R/C aircraft.

[-06]

My wife says that "pooterizing" is my biggest hobby and gripes at me about it. Deer hunting is my real love. Reloading, casting is a means to an end--I get to shoot free as I "sell" a bit of stuff to feed my "habit"-lol. Used to shoot competitively many years ago when the hands were steadier and the eyesight keener. Now I can hardly see a fly at 300 yards- much less which eye I want to shoot out. The canoes have not been wet for two years and have given my son the trolling motors for his kayaks. Love gardening in the raised beds we built three yrs ago. We can/freeze/dry a great deal of fruit(from our new orchard closer to our home) and veggies. We try to pass on pioneering/survivalist skills to the younger generation and instill a deeper patriotism at our bi-annual gatherings. Next is Oct. near Rockingham, NC. We try to teach the youngsters safe shooting habits and have fun also when it is our turn at the benchs. Also love working in our church and especially with the SBaptist Disaster Relief teams. Lots to do and so little time--I just love retirement--I think--lol.

[Idaho Sharpshooter]

1. hunting Africa. Next trip will be with CB's in a Ten Bore Double and a Haenel 8x57.

2. my wife and I have a XK-8 convertible, and a new Fat Boy (If I have to explain either to you, you need to get out more).


regards,

Rich

[bandit7.5]

When I come across an old walden in my travels around the outback of NW Florida and Alabama.SWEET. Some of the old mom and pop roadside stores will have a card display of old knives collecting dust on a back shelf. Its the only collecting that has a small case that does not get the SWMBO attention.
also bolt action milspec rifles and reloading my cast boolits

[geargnasher]

Wow. It's amazing how many fly-tiers there are here, I don't feel so weird.

Felix, an audiophile? Didn't figure you for that. Acoustical Engineering was my first goal in college, found I needed to major in Physics for that and do post-grad work for the actual degree, so I changed tack halfway through and went with Mechanical Engineering instead, much larger and better defined job market. Part of me still yearns to be an acoustical consultant for theatres, both live and motion-picture. One of my best friends from college went on to be a pipe organ builder, very interesting profession. We have a mutual friend who owns a single-screen theatre in Ganado (100 miles south of Houston on 59, you may have been there) and helped him install the world's only fiber-optic audio signal transmission system, necessary to get the signal from the processors in the booth 180 feet to the amps backstage without signal loss or interference from local police transmissions across the street. The signal-to-noise ratio is very impressive. AT&T supplied the FO and connectors, JBL uses his facility as a prototype to demo new speakers. Last time I was down there, the front center balcony seat had been tuned with an RTA to +/-2 dB from 11-24K Hz and phase adjusted on all seven channels to about an inch. It was like being IN the movie. A nine element lens helps the visuals, too. At least I can live vicariously through them!

Gear

[geargnasher]

JBL Pro home theater, with a mix of AB Systems and BGW Sensurround amps. Using an Intgra DHC 80.2, that's 9.2 channels into 20 amps at 7600 watts. Thats driven into the three front channels, the two front high left right, and the 14 surround speakers.

What can I say, when Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry went IMAX ~ 3 1/2 years ago I acquired all of their old school stereo amps and 36 JBL Pro drivers. All in all my home theater has the same equipment as a 300 seat commercial theater.

My wife; of course; thinks I nuts. Certifiably insane about sound. Did I add I have a hearing loss in my left ear? My house always rumbles as the two JBL Pro 4645B 18" subs at 900 WPC go infrasonic at 15HZ.

The new "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was fantastic as Gort stepped out of the sphere.

What, no Rives PARC to even-out all that bass?

Gear

[azcruiser]

I do a little gold prospecting,have a Keene dry washer and
recirculation sluice box pans and stuff
Also 4x4 Toyota Land Cruisers 1977 fj 40 and a 1987 fj 60
Coins-stamps -reloading -shooting

[mold maker]

Boy I was beginning to think, I was the only one to chase the elusive magic yellow metal.
I cut gemstones for years till the eyes went dim.
Now it's helping with 4 grand children, that keeps me off the streets.

[NVWalt]

Watching beautiful women and poking dead animals with a stick, and a few other very sick persuits.LOL

[bensonwe]

A couple of my hobbies are repairing/rebuilding homes. I've completed one and starting my second. I also live in them as I do the work. I have a very understanding wife. Another hobbie is bringing back to life old tools/machinery. I've redone three 1950's craftmans tablesaws. But, the hobbie I seemto not be able to kick is the casting boolits, reloading and most anything with shooting. On Mondays mornings the guys at work just ask me what I shot over the weekend as they know I shot something.

[felix]

Gear, yes indeed, back when! The most brilliant person in the business nowadays would be 'Al Siniscal' <alsiniscal@aol.com> who has Las Vegas locked up, or did have for years. He built a firm to do exactly what your objectives once were in audio-visio. All the casinos employ(ed) his firm to do their requirements from the start of construction. Al is sick now, but I knew him as a high school friend in St. Louis who graduated numero-uno by far, class of 1959, my class. He got his degree(s) at Washington University on a full ride scholarship. Ask your hi-fi buddies about him, especially the JBL folks if and when you see them down in the Houston area. Al and I did none of this while in high school, and did not get into it until we had our first jobs. I think his first was doing avionics for McDonnell. Let's keep in touch about this. ... felix

[10x]

I forgot to mention motorcycles, mostly Norton Atlas and Commando models....

[felix]

Gear, check around the net, and sure enough, Al Siniscal is recognized quite well enough......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph5z7T0DWtw

... felix