One of the plusses for the coin hobby.

topstuf

I was just thinking about this yesterday while out wrecking my fingers wiring bonsai.
Of all the hobbies, interests, and peccadillos I have, ....coins.... are the most active on message boards. Thus providing an almost endless opportunity to discuss, rant, and otherwise indulge myself in exposure to this hobby.

Bonsai is ...close... but still far far away in numbers involved and opinions expressed.

I think it's gonna take some doin' to pull folks away from coins for their hobby.

topstuf

Oh wait! I forgot about GUNS !!!
Guns are HUGE!

ricko

@topstuf ....Yes indeed.... Guns are HUGE!!....Many forums... general forms, brand specific forms, sport forums (i.e. cowboy shooting, three gun, target, tactical etc.), and they are very, very active. Cheers, RickO

Zoins

Do gun owners ever talk about shooting coins, like shooting cans?

ctf_error_coins

Bonsai, never been on a bonsai forum.

Topstuf do you use organic molasses tea on your plants?

Super nitrogen rush. Bonsai and pot plants love this stuff ......

Notice the top layer is covered in mycelium which is so good for plants.

https://youtu.be/hFfPUUKdKbU

topstuf

Never used molasses tea. I know mycorrhizae is good to have at the very bottom of the pot.
It's kind hard to force it to form though.

1630Boston

@Zoins said:
Do gun owners ever talk about shooting coins, like shooting cans?

https://youtu.be/XJ_fPY7axmU

toyz4geo

I seem to flip flop between coins and my 1957 Chevy Nomad. Lots of collectible car forums. Never tried Bonsai.

ambro51

I’ve moved my collector interests to Vintage Film Cameras, but kept intact my overwhelming “Esoteric Nature”. Now....camera collecting is nowhere near the popularity of other hobbies, but, I find it very interesting. As to forums, nothing dedicated and active at all. So, few to really brag/chat/or pick the brain with. Most big time camera collectors look like the Dads of the guys walking the aisles at coin shows. I care Not as Now is the time to buy fantastic cameras about 1920-1980. My most recent prize is a mint + Bell and Howell Foton Camera with 2 cases and the 216mm Cooke tile lens and it’s finder. That camera , with about 509 made in 1948, plus those accessories, sold new for about $1900 (in 1948 dollars,, roughly equal to $20,000 today).

Downtown1974

@ambro51 I’ve thought of venturing into antique cameras. I have a couple of old cameras that I picked up at flea markets long ago. Even as a kid, they sparked my interest.

ambro51

Another Rarity, The Stereo Realist Custom, of which 2500 were made from 1959 - 196? It was about $300 in 1959. Pedigree?? Well this camera came with a service receipt for the owner, Bill Walsh (49rs Coach). so assume this camera seen OJ etc etc

ambro51

ambro51

Oh....and YES, a Major Cherrypick off eBay, what is certainly a hand made prototype of the 35mm Single Lens Reflex Camera, “first” introduced in 1934. But....here’s this prototype, fully functioning and precise image maker...doing what a SLR does, but dating to the early-mid 1920’s to all who’ve examined it. It “Should” be in a Museum, but I found it on eBay for $150. :-). The Nice thing about Cameras you can “use” them for their designed purpose, and derive pleasure from them in that way also. I do suppose though it would be “fun” to spend a $20 Saint at Burger King.......;-)

ambro51

Exbrit

@Zoins said:
Do gun owners ever talk about shooting coins, like shooting cans?

They use coin terminology sometimes to compare the spread or grouping. I never shot at a coin - I'm too cheap! Maybe a bonsai tree. Trimming it with a .45?

Infamustrueerrors

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_Matches.Matchbooks look pretty good together as a group when you get a decent quantity of all different ones, and thats when you have to decide how deep you want to get into collecting.

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Hemispherical

We have many eclectic collectors!