as many on here know, i restore antique water pumps and windmills. My latest direction is to restore old mechanical scales. They are really quite simple, they are based on ratios. most are 100/1. because they are based on ratios, they are as accurate today as 100 years ago when they were built, and as they will be in 500 years.

I am a Hobby Artistic Blacksmith and Bladesmith. I Love Pounding Steel, it's a Great way to Stay in Shape and take out some Daily Aggression

I'm boring anymore. Used to do crafts and painting, guitar, organ....
Now it's just crosswords and mysteries and gem collecting.

i make and collect toys, puzzles and games.

the latest wa a circular one rope tree swing for the kids
wirh a sunburst design.

sometimes design and/or make jewelry.

write short things in the poems and creative writing forum.

make up stuff on the guitar...

sports and exercise

BLACKSMITHING HUH? We have an old engine club near here, The buckley old engine show.... we have a building with two blacksmiths for the show. its so interesting. I built them a huge bellows that hangs from the ceiling, you work it with a rope and pulley setup. The bellows is about five feet long i would say. Its one of my favorite restoration projects. It was patterend after an origional and came out really cool. there is also a vietnam vet who makes knives for therapy. dunnow what freuid would say about that, but he does beautiful work. he makes them from files, which he heats, hammers and works, then softens the metal

i collect doll houses and min furnture
also snow globes, old dolls,

i have 3 dollhouses and one is my daughters, i had ask her if she wanted it sense it was at my moms but she didnt want the kids to ruin it, which i can understand, as they think they can play with everything in my dollhouse and there are things in there that are not to play with

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that would be Cool to Have! Me and My Buddy are Contemplating Putting together a Mobile Forge and Do some Ren Faires and Celtic Festivals.

I LOVE this stuff!!!

Are the gearing systems similar with old clocks as well?
(Grandfather, Cukoo, or otherwise)

Clocks have always fascinated me and was thinking of (yet another) hobby.

the blacksmithing shop is always a big hit and of course they sell thier wares. You might try checking around your area, there is probably an antique engine club near you. They are usually looking for help for thier show.

target shooting

I collect teddy bears and candles

i had a customer who comissioned me to build 50 birdhouses that look like churches. it was an interesting project. I used dollhouse stuff on em.

lold?

The only things in life you regret,

Are the risks that you didn't take.

some are spring operated, , but the big ones are just lever systems and counterweights. ive restored three platform scales and two "family" scales, which are small countertop kitchen scales, 24 lb capacity. also have one milk scale. POther than not being temprature compensated like the new ones, they are exactly the same as new ones built today.

You gotta see my Dad/Uncle's barns -- two family generations of stuff...a lot of it restored.
Scales, water pumps, horse harness - enough to dress the Budweiser hitch, old bellows, you'd be in heaven.

I know a blacksmith/tinsmith ...named Robin Hood. He did/does all the local fairs, reenactment fesitivals, how he makes his living. Incredible character that man is

I quilt, well ok, collect fabric more than actually quilt.
Collect and restore old tools, mostly family items, sentimental value, I love having things they worked the land with and their hands touched so many hours to care for their families.

Great stuff!

I collect tea pots, candles, and old sewing machines, lately I have been collecting fonts and graphics programmes I keep promising myself that I will master using Photoshop................

I'll do that. I've Never Heard of an Antique Engine Club, I'll ask My Friend if He Has either way I'll Look For one