Hobbies other than winemaking?

[Obbnw]

I don't just make wine, I drink it too ; )

Unfortunately drinking makes me lazy so I only dream about being able to weld, make furniture, etc.

Kidding aside, maintaining the garden and grape vines is my real hobby, wine making is the side hustle...

 

[Vinobeau]

Making things. Cabinetry, some furniture, a few canoes, turnings, stained glass, gardening and our course wine making.

 

[Daboyleroy]

Wood carving and painting

 

[Daboyleroy]

Also have a small garden figs, muscadines, apples, pecan, pears.and grapes.

 

[vinny]

Making things. Cabinetry, some furniture, a few canoes, turnings, stained glass, gardening and our course wine making.

That is quite the canoe, sir. Nice work!

 

[Vinobeau]

Thanks! For me the beauty of making boats and turning bowls, and to a certain point stained glass, is that not much of it requires any thing to be Square! This pic shows one mistake that I couldn't hide - one piece of the decking just wasn't quite long enough!

 

[vinny]

Thanks! For me the beauty of making boats and turning bowls, and to a certain point stained glass, is that not much of it requires any thing to be Square! This pic shows one mistake that I couldn't hide - one piece of the decking just wasn't quite long enough!

ahhh, that's just a little character. Also, nothing a sticker wouldn't fix.

 

[jswordy]

 

[Terryfirma]

Writing, Gardening, foraging, preserving, fermenting, chicken keeping, fishing, Claw hammer Banjo, floor loom Weaver, wood carving, volunteering and supporting non-profit arts organizations. I collect a lot of things, but my Coffee pot collection is quite extensive:}
I have too many hobbies!!

 

[Jan]

 

[bearpaw8491]

Wood Turning and life-long outdoorsman, especially primitive technologies.

 

[bstnh1]

Gardening (indoors and out), landscaping, hiking, cooking, fixing anything whether it's broken or not!

 

[Old Corker]

I used to make furniture years ago. Once we bought our first home that energy morphed into diy projects. Both inside and out. All things horse related and home improvement. I’ve owned a few tractors over the years. They become a hobby unto themselves plus I tend to invent things to do with it. There is almost nothing around our home that I wouldn’t or haven’t taken on.
I did put some serious thought into taking up blacksmithing. Took a couple classes and made a couple of things and really enjoyed it. Ultimately I had to put it down because my hands are going south with arthritis and a tendon issue in both my thumbs.

 

[crushday]

I'm a musician (play 15 instruments), song writer, recording engineer, luthier, bowyer, photographer, painter, creative writer (short story and novel), and public speaker. These are some of my hobbies.

Here's an image I took and won the 2011 Smithsonian photo contest with (the category was Americana):

This was taken in Miles City, Montana at the annual bucking horse sale.

 

[sour_grapes]

I'm a musician (play 15 instruments), song writer, recording engineer, luthier, bowyer, photographer, painter, creative writer (short story and novel), and public speaker. These are some of my hobbies.

Here's an image I took and won the 2011 Smithsonian photo contest with (the category was Americana):

This was taken in Miles City, Montana at the annual bucking horse sale.

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I wanted to give both a and a but evidently you have to choose one or the other!

 

[vinny]

Well, if we are doing show and tell, I might as well elaborate.

My main hobby is building and making things. All of my other interests tend to lend inspiration to that goal.

I have posted some of these in other threads, but mostly it is do demonstrate how I use all other hobbies as an excuse to improve or make something

I took the studs out of the pantry wall and built a cabinet for our canning.



I installed a counter over the washer and dryer for a wine making area.


I added under cabinet lights and a few other bits, but can't seem to find the finished pictures.

Now, if I can save a buck and make something I need, well then we are really having fun.



A buddy bought this, it is an annealer for reloading brass. $350 delivered.


I made mine, with some improvements for $75. Everyone always says, 'but what about your time?'. That's completely missing the point, this is the hobby! I got hours of tinkering with this, sourcing parts, coming up with a random plan in my head and putting it together. I managed to pull it off better than I originally had planned and had fun making it.




currently I am working on a wine pump to transfer, filter, bottle, etc. and a lift table/cart to drag carboys around so I don't have to lift them. The two together should eliminate much of the lifting and risk of making a mess, while keeping me pleasantly entertained.

 

[wood1954]

Nice, that’s what hobbies are. I’ve never felt that my hobbies should pay for themselves financially, they pay by keeping me sane. I love woodworking and sometimes it pays but I never enjoy paid work as much as making something for family or friends, same with wine, I love learning about making wine, just wish I’d quit making mistakes.

 

[ChuckD]

@vinny @wood1954
Whenever I see some new gadget I start looking at how I can make my own… I can typically make something only slightly less functional for only double the price!

But my version will weigh twice as much and survive a large meteor strike!

 

[tullamore]

 

[Noontime]

I About 2 years ago I discovered scratch build/kitbashing model making. Creating a model using plastic styrene sheets and random found plastic parts (containers and other retail products, stuff found on the sidewalk, etc, other plastic model parts, all called "greeblies" in general). Collecting the greeblies is just as much fun as building the models. Image below is a spaceship I've been working on... still needs to be painted.