Hobbies fighting over time...

[Sparkncode]

I had to not brew this weekend as I wanted to make progress on my homemade CNC router/mill
Currently building its control panel.

A few power up tests of the power supplies and stepper motor drivers. I now need to install the control board and cut holes in the door for a few switches etc.

The last two weekends had all grain brew days in them for 19L batches.

I think I will try for a brew day next weekend to try and brew my first belgium tripel.

Weekends are not long enough for all the projects I want to work on :-(

 

[Pappers_]

"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
Red Green

 

[homebrewer_99]

"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." Red Green

Sadly, that would make him only one global EMP event away from looking for a new career...

Sparkncode: In all seriousness, I don't know what the hell it is, but it looks cool.

 

[Miraculix]

After brewing, guns can be considered my biggest passion.
I'm a shotgun shooter now, but I've recently started thinking more and more about archery. I've began my foray into information gathering. I started out a local archery shop and got some information on bows, searched through online reviews https://secretstorages.com/best-compound-bow/ . A good friend of mine says that his only regret about getting started in archery is that it is addictive.

You stop that now!

Don't give me ideas... My time is limited enough

 

[Sparkncode]

A bit more explanation. My project is basically a computer controlled cutting device 3 dimentional shapes out of anything up to and including aluminium in hardness.

I already have a 3d plastic printer but this will give me more fleability to make stuff. More projects...

Ollivertwist77 interesting hobbies.
I assume the worst kind expensive and addictive. If i want to feel better about what i spend on hobbies I look at what a friend spends on his performance cars hobby.

I have poor eyesight so i stick to things i can do close up but between amateur radio, computers, electronics, 3d printing, Making stuff, and homebrew i always have too much to do.

 

[JohnSand]

No brewing until <- that boat is back in the water. I did keg 7.5 gallons this week.

 

[mongoose33]

After brewing, guns can be considered my biggest passion.
I'm a shotgun shooter now, but I've recently started thinking more and more about archery. I've began my foray into information gathering. I started out a local archery shop and got some information on bows, searched through online reviews https://secretstorages.com/best-compound-bow/ . A good friend of mine says that his only regret about getting started in archery is that it is addictive.

Just wait until you start reloading.....

 

[MaxStout]

One of my friends has started building fiberglass bows that he eventually plan s to market. He has the moulds and some of the gear, and he has built a couple rough prototypes so far. I'm afraid to go over there for fear that I'll find another addictive (and money-sucking) hobby.

 

[Sailingeric]

I try to remember that a hobby should not be so much work it feels like a job. I brew once a month or so and it does not take up too much time. I did play with model trains for about 10 years and then I just kind of lost interest. I have them packed up and took down my layout in the garage for now. Down the road I might be the bug. I have found fish keeping to be find and getting my saltwater reef tank up and running good has been work but I am starting to get the point it will be just feeding the fish and enjoy watching them swim. Sailing is another passion I have but I now do a week or two offshore every summer instead of puttering around the river in Portland... Quality over quantity.

 

[JohnSand]

I agree about time and results. While I enjoy brewing, it is as much about the product as the process. I wouldn't brew every day if I could, or even every week. Once a month keeps my pipeline full. I love to cook, but I won't devote hours a day to it. Sailing is different, I would sail nearly every day if I could. I've spent up to two weeks on my own boat, at least four weeks on a Coast Guard Cutter.

 

[Sailingeric]

I agree about time and results. While I enjoy brewing, it is as much about the product as the process. I wouldn't brew every day if I could, or even every week. Once a month keeps my pipeline full. I love to cook, but I won't devote hours a day to it. Sailing is different, I would sail nearly every day if I could. I've spent up to two weeks on my own boat, at least four weeks on a Coast Guard Cutter.

trust me, is I lived on the east coast and had a boat, I would be on it everyday. What kind of boat do you have? Sailed anywhere fun?

 

[JohnSand]

The boat is a WD Knott design, built by Nelson Whitesell in Florida in 1968. There are three others I know of: the original, a schooner "Aries" built on Cape Cod in '62(?) and two other ketches built by Whitesell. All of those are 36' on deck, mine is 10% larger all around. The first owner sailed her to the Bahamas and I think the Caribbean as far as Barbados. The second owner sailed her to the Bahamas too. I sailed her home from Florida, then there and back, then Georgia and back. I would love to live aboard, and sail her south every fall. But my wife thinks we should live in a house and travel by plane!

 

[Konadog]

I have found fish keeping to be find and getting my saltwater reef tank up and running good has been work but I am starting to get the point it will be just feeding the fish and enjoy watching them swim.

Had a reef tank for 25+ years, it's never as easy as "just feeding the fish" finally sold it all last summer, now I can afford beer!

 

[Sailingeric]

The boat is a WD Knott design, built by Nelson Whitesell in Florida in 1968. There are three others I know of: the original, a schooner "Aries" built on Cape Cod in '62(?) and two other ketches built by Whitesell. All of those are 36' on deck, mine is 10% larger all around. The first owner sailed her to the Bahamas and I think the Caribbean as far as Barbados. The second owner sailed her to the Bahamas too. I sailed her home from Florida, then there and back, then Georgia and back. I would love to live aboard, and sail her south every fall. But my wife thinks we should live in a house and travel by plane!

Bahamas is good. Bimini is not a hard hop from Miami with good weather 8 hours or so, or ride the current up a few more hours and go into Westend or Lucaya on Grand Bahamas Island then spend a week hopping around the Berry Islands. I have a done a couple trips from Antigua to Grenada. Mostly line of sight navigation but can be breezy, we ran with a reef the whole way. I have also sailed to Bermuda but plan on a full week of open ocean but worth it when drop anchor in St George's Harbour. If you have gone offshore the whole way to Florida or New York you could do just anything from Bermuda to the Caribbean. If you ever need crew feel free to hit me up.

 

[JohnSand]

Thanks Eric, send me a pm and we'll exchange info. I'll add you to the crew email list. Weather has kept me from doing the full hop offshore, I think we spent five days at sea on our longest leg. I've since realized that the crew like shorter hops with more port calls. Now I generally shoot for 24-48 hours at sea followed by a day in town.
I've chartered or daysailed other places too, BVI, Mexico, Nova Scotia.

 

[Jayjay1976]

You have cool hobbies. DIY CNC=Geek paradise. My other hobby is building scale model boats. When I had access to a CNC mill I designed and built a 1:6 scale gar wood speedster involving hundreds of cnc-cut lite ply parts. It's about 80% completed, just waiting for the right time to finish out the mahogany planking and 3d print the metal fittings. I'd love to have my own cnc cutter for depron model planes, too. What other hobby is your CNC habit supporting?

 

[Sparkncode]

What other hobby is your CNC habit supporting?

No one hobby it will be supporting apart from liking to make things... i do have an rc buggy i keep breaking parts on that has been sitting on the shelf so i could male sluminium replacment parts. My dad is making a woddrn fairground organ that plays punchard card and i am going to make him some parts since he helped a lot with my house renovations.
I do have a few projects where it will be useful lined up like parts for my electric bicycle that i want to make etc.

Quite a few project ideas but i will decide which ones when i get the cnc running.

Kind of making the cnc because i can lol.
You can never have too many tools and a cnc is a great tool.

Even the lightweight router style machines are quite useful. I went big and
Beefed up parts so when finished it will have a 800mmx800mm bed with about 200mm vertical travel. I'm getting close to powering up the motors.

A few of my friends are already lining up to get me to cut things for them once its running. All good though because one of those friends has a tig welder so complementing tools amoungst a group of friends making stuff is great. Others its possible cash to cut stuff.

I always wanted to make a computer controlled cutter of some from when i was a teenager in the early 90s and now the required parts are available at reasonable price and i have a job that pays enough to get them i decided to do it. Just really neat the level of machines you can now make at home. Another friend is going to build a small really sturdy one for cutting steel. The beauty of working in a power elecyronics r&d lab with other engineers with similar interests and the same software and electronics backgrounds.

I imagine good cncs sould be really handy for those really into various model hobbies.
Your projects sound great. I admire a lot of models that people make, there is a lot of skill and dedication out there.. I tend to make functional items and as i want to mske more things than i have time i havent got into models.
I use my 3d printer for quite a but. Even printed some large parts out of abs with 100% fill for my CNC where the shape was too difficult for me to make accuratly enough with a hacksaw and a file. The printed parts came out really strong. I tend to use the printer for more functional items.

 

[BruceH]

My hobbies generally have 5 years of major activity then they fade. In the last 25 years it was mountain biking, curio and relic firearm collecting, High Power Rifle competition (made High Master in XC and Long Range), golf, modifying a 2008 Mustang GT, and now brewing.

I'm trying to get back into golf but just can't get as excited about it as I was 10 years ago.