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A while back I replied to this thread mentioning I was into music, esp. vinyl playback, so I thought I'd post a couple of pics of the turntable I recently put together (I built the base for the drive unit and tonearm):

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close up of the cartridge in action:

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Very nice, <3 turntables
 
Other things I enjoy are fixing old Volkswagens and motorcycles, playing music (ties into my career), digital art and I just recently started getting back into model rocketry. One day I also hope to a get a private pilot license.

What do you guys like to do?

I also do the rocketry thing....All the way up to the lower to mid region of the high power levels.

I umpire baseball....from the 8/9 years olds through adult amateur leagues. Not sure it can be considered a hobby since I get paid though. Of course that means I am a pretty huge baseball fan which leads to fantasy leagues and card collecting.

Then of course I have a family and a house which takes up all of my non-working time so my hobbies, including homebrewing, get neglected.
 
My hobbies besides homebrewing are marathon swimming (open water competitions 10K and longer), studying languages (I've never met a language I didn't want to learn), collecting first edition novels of certain Brit authors (E. Waugh; G. Greene; T. Sharpe; K. Amis).
 
Let's see I ride motorcycles and dirt bikes, collect/shoot guns and reload, Work on the house, play computer games (many world of Warcraft). Generally work in the garage and do whatever I can myself.
 
I ride motorcycles, do any home improvement projects I can myself, love to cook, play video games, and am a LEGO collector. Love those little blocks. Recently I've taken to converting pictures into LEGO murals in order to pass the time on deployment.. I've finished an Iron man that came in at 13878 pieces, and is approx. 4ft x 3.5ft And am working on another that is slightly smaller.

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I'm stuck in the hobby hopper category.

The ones that stuck long term:

video gaming (PS4 mainly, some PC)
reading (fantasy, science, sci-fi)
my kids (1 and 3) so this one takes up a lot of time
cooking

The worst one that got away:
guitar (Need to return to this one)
biking (see guitar above)
 
besides brewing?

Reading, writing (fiction) and shaving.

Yes, shaving. As in vintage double edge razors. Used to own a bunch but narrowed it down to two. Along with that I built a large assortment of shaving creams, soaps, and razor blades. I'm set for several years. Even with all I spent, it's less than I would have spent in a year on the newest Gillette cartridges.

Oh! and this! I didn't know shaving counted as a hobby. I'm in.
 
I have to dig out the vintage double edge razor pop gave me when I needed to start shaving that grandpa gave him. Takes double edge, Wilkinson sword sort of blades with nerf bars under where the edge sticks out. Fancy scroll work on the handle. I write books, brew, cook bbq, & just got back into doing videos today with a re-download of Windows movie maker 2.6, which I seem to have lost in saving before re-install. Can't wait till Friday to get paid so I can get a huge pack of batteries for my powerhog...er...powershot. Gotta get a cell phone mem card & adapter so I can use some 2MP shots stuck in there. Thing shoots pretty decent video & sound for 2 megapixels. Now if I could walk normally, I'd get out fishin' & huntin' again...l
 
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