Any Other Hobbies?

[petesbrew]

Nice one! That's a lot of tone knobs for a fuzz pedal. I've got all the components together to make a zvex super hard on pedal. Still trying to get my head around the off board wiring.

Cheers, and Good luck with your pedal, mate
Yeah, the offboard wiring threw me a bit too. The build notes for my fuzz were pretty vague on that, so I had to do a tonne of Googling, and asking questions.
I still haven't tested the dc supply (still running off battery).

The Noisy Cricket was a walk in the park compared to it.
Bought all the parts off Taydaelectronics.com, but their minature pcb mount pots are pretty ******, IMO.
MadbeanPedals.com is a good forum.

 

[tugger]

This was with a 20 year old air pistol.
I love my guns.

 

[knot_gillty]

*thread revival!!

I don't brew beer (yet) but I brew mead. My other interests and hobbies are many and varied. Love nothing more than heading out bush camping, hunting, 4wding, fishing. Got a caravan so also love heading out in that with the family.

Camping wise I swag or tent depending on who is with me and where it is.

Hunting, I love deer hunting. Haven't shot a shitload but have got a few with both rifle and bow. My best stag is a chital stag I shot in Queensland with my bow. Love rabbit and fox shooting too but unfortunately there aren't many bunnies in my area.

Fishing, love snapper and gummy fishing. Love it!! One of the best by-catches is flatty. Very under rated fish. I hear a lot of people whine when they "only get flathead".... Chase trout every now and then and like doing that with the fly gear. I've caught myself a Victorian barra out of Hazelwood Pondage that went 80cm. Absolute horse of a fish!!

Cars. Love my cars. Old ones. Currently I have an FX ute my old man gave to me. Yep, GAVE to me. I couldn't believe it! I've got 3 brothers, the old boy has had this ute for 32 years and next year he's retiring. He said to me 2 years ago "I'm retiring soon and will be traveling. I won't have room or time for the ute and I know you will look after it and have somewhere to store it". Gotta love that!! Not so sure the brothers were too happy as they all said they wanted it when he passes away. I said I'd take his boat!.. haha. I also have a HZ ute project car I'm building. Haven't done a great deal to it yet and not sure I'll do too much more as a mate said he wants to swap it for his FX sedan... I'm up for that!!

Don't mind heading for a surf every now and then. Try to get out a few times a year. Trying to get the kids into it and teach them a little bit.

I coach my middle boy in U10's footy (Aussie rules, the REAL football!!!). Tomorrow we play in our second semi final. Finished second on the ladder in my first year of coaching. I'm pretty stoked with that. Also been helping my 14yr old daughter get into footy and coaching her a bit. She's a bloody champion footballer!

I don't mind doing a bit of gardening either. Used to do the whole "veggie patch" thing but after changing jobs and not working with any old wogs I lost interest with it. More landscape gardening sort of thing I like.

I enjoy (at times...) making potbellies and fire pits. Some here may wish me I'll with some things I've done to kegs!!.. haha.

I pretty much love doing anything with my family. If we can find somewhere to camp or caravan near water or somewhere to shoot we'll be happy!!

 

[feralbass]

I fish pretty hard, both fresh and salt water, have 2 boats, kayak and canoe, love chasing bass.
I belong to a local fishing and we get a club trip in each month plus other trips in between.
Doing a trip to Cape York with 11 mates end of Oct this year, this will be my 5th trip up there.
4WD driving and camping is the spin off from fishing.
I used to shoot competition, small bore, air rifle and trap, one day I will get back to it.
Also doing a project bike, Honda 750 VF 82 mod, very modified, lost my mogo on it but will get back to it soon I hope (another story), this has been 6 years in the build so far.
I love my garden and have a very good home workshop, always projects going on in there, new aluminium rear canopy for my Navara is close to finished.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Another keen angler here, and gardener, would never have thought I would get into gardening, but got introduced to growing exotic plants and it grew from there.(No pun intended) Both of those hobbies suck up large amounts of cash, especially the fishing, makes me appreciate the brewing hobby more. All 3 require a huge amount of reading so I suppose I could add reading as a hobby too.

 

[Grott]

As I don't have a boat, gave up jetty fishing years ago. If the good woman would carry the esky I might still be doing it. Love gardening results particularly with herbs and chilli varieties.

 

[knot_gillty]

If the good woman would carry the esky I might still be doing it.

Get a trolley mate, very handy if you can't be buggered carrying an esky. Especially on a jetty!! Esky, tackle box, couple of chairs etc. no need to give it up.

 

[Grott]

Mmmmmmm, wonder if she would cart me out there on a trolley. Seriously though, trolley has some merit in it, will give some thought there.

 

[knot_gillty]

Mmmmmmm, wonder if she would cart me out there on a trolley. Seriously though, trolley has some merit in it, will give some thought there.

Electric buggy??... hahaha. Wonder if the fuzz will look kindly upon a bloke with a beer or two under his belt rolling on one of those?.. I hate to see anyone give up on fishing.

 

[good4whatAlesU]

That's the go. Enjoy a bit of fishing too when I get a chance, mainly off the beach nowadays if the weather is good.

Saw a video recently where some blokes used a drone to drop the bait out deep - looked interesting.... Could be expensive if it goes wrong.

 

[Black Devil Dog]

I like making short videos and putting music to them.

Made a few, mountain bike riding with one of my dogs, boating and snorkelling are about it so far. It's very time consuming and I've got a few unfinished projects in the works and some ideas for things I'd like to do down the track.

I'm very much an untrained rank amateur, but I like experimenting with editing techniques and different effects.

Here's one of them.

 

[Camo6]

Surf fishing is also my go to now when it comes to wetting a line. Mainly due to the fact that most of our holidays are in the van and along the coast somewhere where the kids can be entertained and I can still get out there and catch something. Towing the van restricts us from using a boat although, after a recent trip estuary fishing, I'm now looking around for a decent car-topper that will allow us to get the kids out on some quiet water to fish, explore etc.

 

[Mardoo]

Time on an estuary is time well spent, ay?

 

[Brewnicorn]

*thread revival!!

What do you do with your spare time though...? ;-)

Good form mate. Great read.

 

[captain crumpet]

Use to go fishing until we realised that it was becoming all about drinking, so we cut out the fishing and just drink instead.

 

[good4whatAlesU]

Surf fishing is also my go to now when it comes to wetting a line. Mainly due to the fact that most of our holidays are in the van and along the coast somewhere where the kids can be entertained and I can still get out there and catch something. Towing the van restricts us from using a boat although, after a recent trip estuary fishing, I'm now looking around for a decent car-topper that will allow us to get the kids out on some quiet water to fish, explore etc.

My old man just picked up one of those 'porta boats' second hand - he's happy with it so far. Doesn't need a trailer or anything, small engine works fine.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

That's the go. Enjoy a bit of fishing too when I get a chance, mainly off the beach nowadays if the weather is good.

Saw a video recently where some blokes used a drone to drop the bait out deep - looked interesting.... Could be expensive if it goes wrong.

I saw a guy surf fishing and he had a pneumatic valve with a plastic barrel on it, loaded his terminal tackle into the barrel pumped the pneumatic valve full of air with a foot pump then took aim, opened the valve and away it all went. I like the drone idea though.

 

[Yuz]

Kayaking, fishing, vaping (DIY juice lab lol)

 

[Pnutapper]

Mmmmmmm, wonder if she would cart me out there on a trolley. Seriously though, trolley has some merit in it, will give some thought there.

http://www.boganandproud.com/motorised_esky?product_id=98

 

[Hangover68]

Knot_gillty has similar past times to me, i love my camping and 4wding and also have an FC sedan , 74 Kombi and Triumph T595 Daytona.
Also a bow man and have a Hoyt Easton compound bow that i have had for years, not much into hunting as i dont have the opportunity since we sold our family farm.
If camping solo or with the boys i take my double swag or if the family comes we have an offroad camper trailer.
I also have a 16ft Canadian style canoe.