Do you "collect" anything? What is it, and do you display your collection?
I started collecting old woodworking hand planes, but they're not just to look at. I also use them. After I while I grew tired of collecting them, and stopped buying every one I found. I do still have quite a few though.
Verycool. What kind of wood working items do you produce? Furniture?
@MrLink I make all kinds of things. Someone else on this forum asked me to post some of my work. The pics are on my profile page.
@Eazyduzzit I checked them out. I admire your skills!
@MrLink
Thank you very much, but it’s really not so much a skill as just something I had a strong desire to learn, and I put a lot of work into learning it.
@Eazyduzzit that makes it a skill, bro!
That looks like a serious tank!
yes, its an ex-display tank with 500 gallons in it. the fish is 24" long.
@LeighShelton 500 gallons? Wow! I have never seen one that big. Does its great size make its easier to keep properly regulated?
it's much easier. the bigger the tank the easier. I started off at about 13-14 with a 3` tank and still love them.
I used to collect pressed pennies, but they seem to harder to find now.
I just keep’em and a leather book. But I haven't thought about displaying them differently.@pthomas59
Pigs. It started with a hand-carved wooden pig with wings, wearing a Santa Suit. They've all been gifts. One of my nephews gets me the same birthday card every year. "If you're happy and you know it, clamp your hams." It's a fairly small collection, but it's the only knick-knacky type thing I do, and it's actually completely out of character.
I actually have two pigs, a painted carved wooden one and a huge (2 ft x 18 inches) painted clay piggy bank, and they both belong to the minimalist that rags me about having so much stuff!
@ScienceBiker That's me. Always keep 'em guessin', and shocked. You never know what I'm gonna do!!!
I collect books on organized crime and lost baby items I find on the ground...rattles, bottles, bibs,pacifiers, toys- you name it...very funny story about how this started....I just wanted a collection nobody else in the world would have...it's in a box in the other room.
reading the biography of capone right now . wow that's alot of corruption. I hope america has somewhat changed its ways
@markdevenish Mark- there are a LOT of Capone books out there- read them all..also Lucky Luciano was way up there as well...fascinating reading...
I used to collect die-cast cars; still have a few. That started mainly because a house I once bought had a room with shelves covering half of one wall and I needed something to put on them.
Do you think any of them have turned out to have real value?
I used to collect a lot of things: old pulp science fiction magazines, WW2 German militaria, comic books, anything to do with the TV show "Lost in Space." and so on. And then I realized that all of these great things were just boxed away (being out in the open can fade colors, making it all less valuable, after all). Occasionally, I would look st my stuff briefly, before boxing it all up again. One day I realized this was crazy, and I started selling the stuff off. Whenever someone asks about collecting stuff, I always say "My collection consists of what I haven't sold yet." If I got back into collecting, I'd collect Soviet or East German militaria, because the stuff looks interesting, the prices are relatively low, and because it's all so common, there are hardly any fakes on the market.
I have a Soviet melodeon
I used to collect glass bottles and kept them on a shelf in the front room before my ex wife put an end to it. I had an unopened coke bottle from Iran from my brother's deployment. Recently I've been turning bottle caps from drinks I like into magnets on my fridge.
brass bells in the shape of girls , blue china plates with depictions of life and paintings and yes they are proudly diplayed
oh and albums/ cd's
I have a collection of split bamboo fly rods. And several banjos, both 4 string and 5 string.
Sweet! Looks like you might play the banjo some too?
I used to collect stamps. Well, I say that, but I was actually just given a bag of stamps as a kid and given a suggestion by my mother to start collecting. I never added a single new stamp.
Yes. I have a collection of teacups; were bought in the places I visited and the only rule is that they must be made in England. My second collection is made of about 700 magnets; they represent every item in a household and also were bought in places I visited. I display both collections
Records and they are on full display in my living room. I also collect dog fur, as in the shedded dog fur from my lab and pug
I seem to collect musical instruments. I'm slightly embarrassed about it so I don't really display them as such but I do have a music room where I practice and we play in there when mates come around.
I play a few different instruments but I seem to have multiples 2 flutes, 2 banjos 3 ukulele, 3 concertinas, 2 fiddles, 4 melodeons, assorted whistles....
And that's not even a complete list.... it's a relatively harmless symptom of my bipolar disorder
Pens and headphones. No, I don't display them. Lol.