What Do You Collect?

[cabinetman]

Collections are as wide as can be. Maybe it's still baseball cards maybe not. Matchbooks in a brandy snifter sat on shelves for many people. This could be very interesting.

My first real collection was small/scale model cannons. Some are infinitely detailed. Two solid brass ones actually fire. Some have wood wheeles.

My next collection (and the largest) is menues. I started collecting them from just going to restaurants. When my friends found out, I started receiving menues from all over the world in many languages. I've got them in printed leather, printed on finished wood, even printed on real cleavers. Probably have 500 or so.

My last collection is scale model cars and race cars, die cast models, some silver, some in wood and one is glass crystal.

What do you collect?



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[LinuxRandal]

Honestly, I think the things I collect most are Idea's and Projects.


I really like to think I collect tools. I rarely seem to find time to use them.

[bigsteel15]

Routers!!
Seriously, I hate to admit it, but at the same time I decided to take up this hobby, I decided to start collecting saw blade clocks. Only have about 10 right now, but keep eyes open at flea markets, etc.
Also have inadvertantly started a small collection of folding rules, added to my collection of 2 by my parents. They didn't know I had a couple old ones and bought me an EVANS model that is apparently hard to find.
Before that, stamps (childhood hobby now collecting dust).

By far though, my biggest "collecting" habit is music CDs. I buy almost every new CD that comes out resembling R'n'R or heavy blues and especially anything out of the Detroit scene (Thirdman or V2) when I can get my hands on them.

I may start collecting Ice Wines, as I just tried my first taste of a premium one (Inniskillin) last week and loved it.

[Holbren]

I really like to think I collect tools. I rarely seem to find time to use them.

My feeling exactly. Some day I'll get the shop setup and do something useful with all that stuff.

[gmack5]

Stuff!

I collect stuff! Just about anythig that I can stick in a Storage Box.
Mostly Books and Tools.
At one point when I moved from Chicago to Ft. Wayne Indiana, I moved over 1 TON of Books, yes that's right over 2000 pounds of books!

And I'm still collecting them! Mostly books and magazines about Woodworking.

[just4funsies]

Dust!!!

[kwgeorge]

I don’t really collect anything other than possibly wood. Seems I have turning stock in boxes of so many different species that I can hardly remember them all. I also have quite the collection of veneer. So for me I guess its wood.

Ken

[gsmittle]

Well, let's see.... Besides collecting splinters, I have nearly every issue of Analog magazine from 1976 to the present. I also scored some from the 50s at a used bookstore once.

Other than that, I have play scripts. Lots and lots of play scripts.

g.

[MilDoc]

Stamps - US Commemoratives -- complete collection from 1893 to the present.

[Otter]

Coin Colector

I collect only Morgan (aka Liberty minted 1878-1921) and Peace Dollars (1921-1935), both complete. I am working on rasing the colection to a MS-65 or better standard I have had my eye on starting a Liberty Seated (1840-1873)collection

[Pappy]

What else...

Planes and CLAMPS!

[Warren]

For a long time it was broken bones and stitches. Older and wiser, I now collect books. Not just old and first editions, anything of interest. All my life I've had an abiding love for the written word so, I read anything and find it terribly hard to get rid them after I've read them.

[maxparot]

I inherited a stamp and coin collection.
I've collected a half dozen bronze Wells Fargo belt buckles.
I have a 72 Chevelle I restored myself
But my biggest collection is tools.

[Stan]

Louis L'Amour hardbound edition books. Up to 41 now, only 77 more to go -- along with a custom bookcase (eventually) to put them in.

[Knottscott]

15 to 20 years ago I collected records and then CD's. Now I seem to have gravitated to saw blades, wood, and tools in general...oh and kids too!