What do you collect

[Keith Cocker]

They've all gone up a lot since the pandemic, although landrover prices rocketed after they announced they weren't making them any more ( or at least not in that shape )
If it aint broke, don't fix it

I had a beautiful Defender which was my pride and joy. It was nicked overnight from my drive. It was no consolation but I got a good deal more than I paid for it or spent on it from the insurance claim. I hadn’t the heart to buy a new one knowing that sooner or later some turnip would pinch it!!

 

[Keith Cocker]

I had a beautiful Defender which was my pride and joy. It was nicked overnight from my drive. It was no consolation but I got a good deal more than I paid for it or spent on it from the insurance claim. I hadn’t the heart to buy a new one knowing that sooner or later some turnip would pinch it!!

Ooh! I like the way the forum software turns my use of the word for someone born out of wedlock to “turnip” !! Vey nifty!!

 

[MorrisWoodman12]

if thats the case, he's probably in 2010 buying up landrovers so he can make 10 times as much in profit!

Nah! That would require too much storage and they'd rust away. He's bought up all the Bailey and Stanley type 71 router planes before Paul Sellars hiked the price!

 

[doctor Bob]

Me too.
C'mon @doctor Bob tell us some more

Give me 2 weeks and I can post about it, all a bit hush hush at present getting it over the line.

 

[Daniel2]

Give me 2 weeks and I can post about it, all a bit hush hush at present getting it over the line.

(I won't tell anyone).

 

[Adam W.]

Give me 2 weeks and I can post about it, all a bit hush hush at present getting it over the line.

Wot, won't it start ?

 

[selectortone]

Wot, won't it start ?

He's waiting for it to return from 1955.

 

[baldkev]

He's waiting for it to return from 1955.

Hmmmm, time travel logistics must be difficult

 

[TFrench]

I have a collection of machine tools - wood and metalwork. Wadkin, startrite, deckel, hardinge, smart and brown, oerlikon. If its obsolete and has "gizmosity" (die filing machine, pantograph or metal shaper) I'm all over it. Manual machinery is so much more interesting than a CNC, even if its not as quick or productive. I try to trade up though to limit having multiples of the same machine. Current count is 5 lathes, but they all do different things, honest!

Also have a substantial collection of vices, to the point where I'm running out of room on the trophy shelves!

 

[selectortone]

Hey Doc, if you do get a time-travelling DeLorean, could you please travel back to China two years ago and tell them eating bats isn't a good idea?

 

[Jameshow]

I have a collection of machine tools - wood and metalwork. Wadkin, startrite, deckel, hardinge, smart and brown, oerlikon. If its obsolete and has "gizmosity" (die filing machine, pantograph or metal shaper) I'm all over it. Manual machinery is so much more interesting than a CNC, even if its not as quick or productive. I try to trade up though to limit having multiples of the same machine. Current count is 5 lathes, but they all do different things, honest!

Also have a substantial collection of vices, to the point where I'm running out of room on the trophy shelves!

I too have a substantial collection of vices....!

 

[baldkev]

I too have a substantial collection of vices....!

yep but he meant the things that tighten, not the things that get you in trouble (just kidding)

 

[Jameshow]

yep but he meant the things that tighten, not the things that get you in trouble (just kidding)

Mince pies,
Chocolate,
Classic cars,
planes,
Saws,
Bikes,
Boats, etc etc...

I need help!!!

 

[Cabinetman]

God I must be boring, I don’t collect anything, last thing I collected was American Bubble gum cards, can still smell it now after half a century. Ian

 

[Derek Cohen (Perth Oz)]

So what determines when something is "a collection"? Versus "a necessity of life", or "a curiosity" or just things that take up space in an allotted place ... unlike David W, who has everything and all over the place? (sorry David ).

I assume that a Collector needs to have a sort of obsessive streak ... adding one more just because it fits the grouping? My wife has this thing for shoes ... shades of Imelda Marcos. I encourage this as she does not complain about my purchases.

I do have access to 7 million music albums. Of course, they are all in the Cloud, belonging to Tidal. Can a Borrower be a Collector? Generally, I collect in series of 1 item. Then I move on to another item. And another. Can I be a collector of disparate items?

Regards from Perth

Derek

 

[Droogs]

With the reorg and sort out of the workshop underway, I discovered over the weekend that I am/was apparently a secret collector of Sporks. Just chucked 32 of them in the skip. Found in some really unexpected places in the workshop, not a bad number to have collected over the ~8 years I have been in this little hideaway.

 

[Spectric]

There comes a stage in life when you know that there are tools, materials, fittings, bicycles, garden machinery or whatever sitting around your workshop or house that you don't have enough years left to use

Glad I am not alone, yes the point where you realise you only have two hands and there are only so many hours in a week. My approach is that you need to narrow down the field and then concentrate on whats left, but letting go! I find that some stuff you can sell but all you get in exchange is money, another way I find is to just give it to someone that will really appreciate it who may not be in a position to buy and put a smile on their face, showing there is more to life than money.

 

[Cabinetman]

Good advice thanks, there will be a lot of stuff from my workshop I can’t take to the states with me later next year, will have to find a deserving cause. Ian

 

[stuart little]

With the reorg and sort out of the workshop underway, I discovered over the weekend that I am/was apparently a secret collector of Sporks. Just chucked 32 of them in the skip. Found in some really unexpected places in the workshop, not a bad number to have collected over the ~8 years I have been in this little hideaway.

Never heard of 'em; so just googled & now I know!

 

[Jameshow]

Happy to help anyone needing to offload woodworking tools....!!!