Other than glorious tobacco, I am curious to see what other interests or hobbies Snuffhouse residents have. I figure we may have more in common than our love of scented ground leaves. I’m a big fan of baseball (Go Dodgers!) and I enjoy the evolution of leather goods (such as boots, wallets, belts, etc.) and denim jeans. Which basically means I wear the same shoes, belt, jeans, and use the same wallet everyday, pretty much when I’m awake. I’ve even gone 14 months once without ever washing my jeans. True story.

I love listening to music and playing it. I’am into painting and writing. In general being creative. I walk cause it’s fun. I take pictures with film. I wish I had the money to make short movies mostily comedy skits I’ve written. Philsophy is a love,and I love talking philsophy with my love (my best friend). Video games keep me sane. And many things I don’t feel comfortable discussing here.

@bob What video games are you into? I’m a pretty big gamer myself.

Been revisiting fallout new vegas. I enjoy that game more then I should. Though my favorite game of this generation is definatily dark souls.

War and video gaming (Fallout and Skyrim are awesome, into Borderlands at the moment) , vintage audio, vintage Kwakas, reading, photography…

Borderlands definatily got one thing right which is give us a ton of weapons make them all feel and work diffrent. Plus they got the gun sounds right in my opinion.

Dark Souls is awesome. I put in 147 hours a few months ago. I was lucky that my internet could handle PvP and Co-op. I was gonna get Borderlands, but my internet isn’t good enough, so I just stick to single-player games.

I have a small graphics business so anything that has to do with graphics, boating,crabbing,fishing, restorations and learning new things. I have always been one of those people that will try to duplicate things I find interesting.

my other major hobbies are guns and fishing. Camping kinda goes with the fishing, but it’s not a hobby.

My wife and I like hiking through the mountains and forests of Virginia. We usually make a couple of trips to the Smithsonian in DC. She’s an avid reader and bear collector (both plush and figurines). I’m a gamer and non-sports card collector.

Music and books. I intend to take up shooting but it’s a hassle getting licensed in the UK and apart from hunting rifles, for which you have to be a bona fide hunter, we are only allowed long barrel revolvers and Buckmark type pistols, and even them after a lot of hoop jumping like a police interview, medical and a minimum six months registered gun club membership. So I’ll be taking up clays as getting a shotgun is the only remaining gun we have a right to posses and just requires a form, a fee and a gun safe inspected by the police. But getting round to that whilst making lots of snuff is another matter;)

As a younger man I enjoyed playing baseball, football, ice hockey, boxing, shooting, and reading, was a professional fine artist and musician. Now I just do the pistol range (I have a very nice, very interesting collection-mostly shooters), read, and WATCH some sports. I gave up skeet and trap, and a very nice woodshop. Too f-ing creaky at 52. Take care o’ those bodies, Gentlemen. Just like your Mums told you, all those injuries (I’m up to 34 broken bones) do come back atcha. I sound like a maracha when I get out of bed. -I.B.Hoiten

abraxas with a shotgun think of a gentleman farmer with lots and lots of nice silver snuff boxes and some loud silk handkerchiefs :D. my hobbies are gameing rpg’s , sea fishing and shooting o yes i’m one of them bona fide hunters here in the uk…

We have “Turkey Shoots” that run from September til February. $100.00 gets you into all of them and beer is only $1.00 You win meat I love these and you can imagine what most of us are like by the end of the shoot. I have a Baikal 12 gauge that I use Edit: A Turkey Shoot is target shooting not shooting turkeys lol

I was in the poultry business for 22 years, looking to get back into it again, part-time. I enjoy keeping bees, a vegetable garden, collecting old 78 rpm records and early 1900’s radios with an emphasis on shortwave. I enjoy early farm machinery–steam threshers and old ‘hit and miss’ engines. I also enjoy photography but lean towards the use of a Kodak Hawkeye as my main camera, (using 120 bw roll film which tends to be very expensive to develop since I don’t do it myself.) I enjoy fishing and hunting small game with my children and teaching them respectful use of all the good Lord’s creatures. I own an ice cream truck,( much to my wife’s dismay) which I roll around in the Summertime with my kids. The best ( and slightly unnerving ) thing to happen to me was to get layed off over a year ago. It has forced me to bring some of my strange ideas to the forefront and DO THEM. You will always survive if you are not afraid to do anything…it just adds to the type of person you are becoming…one of a kind. There are so many things in life I’m interested in (mostly older things) that I really feel I’ll never get to explore them all. It’s hard to believe people say they are bored and nothing to do. Snuff , this site, and the many people on here are another wonderful thing that I’ve stumbled upon which has made my life better. Thanks all! Bart

When I’m not at work I’m usually working on school requirements with the hope that some day I’ll be able to stop going to school as it’s been 24 years now (K-12, 4 Years as an Undergrad, and 7 years in Graduate school)… When I find myself with some “free” time, I enjoy automotive restoration and updating (current projects - 1965 Chevy C-10 and a 1978 MGB). I also enjoy playing guitar (classic rock, folk, and classic country) and video games (PS3 - Call of Duty/Black Ops, etc).

@Abraxas I’ve always admired many parts of British culture, but the firearms part would keep me from being anything but a visitor. I always carry. We have bears and other feral things, as well as the 2-legged marauders. I get older and they get younger. The saying goes that God made man, Sam Colt made man equal. I’ll tell you what, though, anytime you’re stateside ring me up, and we’ll go have a blast. BTW, you yourself are a real artist at making snuff. I use one or more of yours a day (just wish it had more of a nose bite-I need that).

Several years ago I inherited part of a huge stamp collection. It was in need of some organization so I’ve been working at it on and off. I’ll go at it for a year or two, put it away for a year or two, then get back at it. I’m about to start again this weekend while the little one is staying with the grandparents and the weather will keep me inside. I collect USA, Great Britain and Australia. I’ve almost finished sorting out the USA. Once sorted I’ll need to get back into the collecting side of things and bring everything up to date. It will keep me occupied in my spare time for years to come!

abraxas with a shotgun think of a gentleman farmer with lots and lots of nice silver snuff boxes and some loud silk handkerchiefs :D. my hobbies are gameing rpg’s , sea fishing and shooting o yes i’m one of them bona fide hunters here in the uk…

how off you are. more like whackyman semiloafer and too me thats a better compliment then farmer. Plus we gotta tease him a little before all our compliments about the great snuff go to his head (another hobby of mine is teasing my friends. and I really like making people laugh,like I said I just need some cameras film and the right time to make my skits happen).

@Bart when you saying hunting with your children, even though I know it’s not true I imagine you throwing a toddler at a deer. That’s the kind of thing that’s only funny if you know it’s not real. That’s cool I don’t hunt but my dad did the same thing and I’am glad about it. For one it’s nice having prove there are plenty of hunters with more respect for nature and animals then most people.

@Bart when you saying hunting with your children, even though I know it’s not true I imagine you throwing a toddler at a deer… That’s cool I don’t hunt but my dad did the same thing

So your dad threw you at deer, that explains some things. Please tell me he never took you bear hunting :))

bears, lions, wolverines, and honey badger but not deer. I wish he would have made some home movies you wouldn’t believe the sounds a bear makes when being mauled by a toddler.

Honey Badger. Well there’s a new flavor for the good folks at Toque.

I thought “Honey Badger” was something you got when you didn’t do what she asked

The more comfortable you are w/ someone, the sharper the digs. When my best friend rings, I ask him how you doing, you bag of shit. And the wife’s name is ‘Honey Bear’, not honey badger Give yours a kiss for me. I didn’t get a chance to this morning. See what I mean?

I don’t really have any hobbies at all and hardly any interest in current affairs nowadays, it’s just too depressing.

@AllanH You are here with us so I guess you do have a hobby

Apple seeds. I have been obsessively collecting them, and germinating them in a paper towel in the fridge. If i see another ten years i’ll have an orchard(of mostly crab apples i guess).

@PotPoe That IS interesting. What is your ultimate goal?

@ad_noseum I am glad to hear I made it on the good friends list

@MattheFox You there, you square!

@ad_noseum No real goal, simply to grow. From what i have gleemed off the web, apple orchards have many crab apple trees placed to aid in the polination of the “to sell” apples. What i get will most likely be crap. I had my 32 birthday recently and it occured to me, if i had planted some apple trees when i was 20, i would be tits deep in apples by now. Also i have about another 18 years on my morgage, so i’m planning on being in the same place for a while, and have quite a yard i can fill.

fresh apples are the best.

@PotPoe Sounds like a worthy endeavor. I live in the middle of apple country, and we have a festival every Labor Day. Apples everything-ice cream, fried apple pie, etc. Oooh man is it ever fun and tasty. I think last year there were 52 varieties of apples there. The same as our number of states, according to the Prez. >jab jab<. I’ve been doing a bit o’ reading on cultivating tobacco… maybe this year. I’ve got a grinder on order (talk about putting the cart before the horse) and have been reading some of the posts here about scenting it. The pro’s go through alot to grow, dry, ferment,etc. and it seems daunting when I read it. But I’ve grown veggies for decades, and maybe if I don’t tell them what I’m growing them for…

@bob you must have been some bad kid for your dad to go on an African safari just to throw you at a honey badger, maybe we should start calling you Damien >:)

fresh apples are the best.

Stolen apples are the best! Usually they’re raw and give you diarrhea, but just the act of nicking them was/is good enough.

^^ That reminds me I missed the Apple-Scrapple Festival again this past fall down in Bridgeville. 2013’s is gong on the calender right now. http://www.applescrapple.com/

@Xander Apple scrapple is good but apple sausage is great

My understanding is that its a festival of apples and scrapple, not scrapple with apple in it, but I suppose they can put anything in scrapple. Anything.

@n9inchnails Nah I’am going to tell more lies and say that Honey Badgers just happened to live in the area because of arcane housing laws.

I planted a couple of peach seeds four years ago, last year they bore for the first time, really quick to bear. Just stick the stones in pots and sink it in the garden to overwinter, up they come in the spring, and the fruit came true to the parents.

Photography is a passion although I have hit a low spot, over self critical, needing to break out of the normal. Basically looking for some inspiration. Music is a big part of everyday life, I like all music, but electronic is the main focus but not that bouncy rave rubbish. Recently tried getting into painting, bought a blank canvas today and have no idea what to do with it, or even how to paint. I guess learning something new is my biggest hobby, jack of all, master of none, I’m like a renaissance man with ADD.

@dazz34 - good on yer, I would never get round to hunting but there’s a decent gun club near me so clays it is, whenever I get round to it. I was going to do it last year but never found the time. Not sure about gentleman farmer, more armed thug. @ad_noseum - yep, that’s the nanny state for you. We’ve never really had a culture of gun ownership and our laws about self defence are positively written to suit the offender - self defence was actually removed from the list of reasons written in law to be granted a firearms license in the 1940’s. I think the average US citizen would go insane under our laws.

@Mozwik 1968 Wendy Carlos “Switched on Bach” . That’s a good one there.

Well I am a bit eclectic. Love music, blues in particular. Reading a wide variety of genres. Tobacco in manhy forms. I collect cigar bands and meerschaum pipes. I dabble in woodworking and home improvement projects. Love to cook and play in the garden. Enjoy brewing beer and have been known to conjur a bit of wine or mead on occasion. Hiking in the mountains here in western Montana or paddling in a lake is awesome. Nothing wrong with a good movie or sharing a cigar and bottle of good scotch with friends. CHEERS!!!

I am a bit of a gym rat. Weightlifting 3 times a week and boxing 2-3 times a week. Motorcycles are another passion, I have owned 5 streetbikes and have a hardtail bobber I am building. I guess my biggest hobby now is my son, he just turned 6 and I have been training him boxing since he was 3 1/2 or 4 and he is also in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu classes two times a week. Picture of my streetbike: Picture of the bike I am building:

@DICE Very nice. I had my daughter become a tai kwon do brownbelt by age 10. Boxing is one of those ultimate rush things, eh? @stogie Perhaps we were seperated at birth.

Recovery, Fishing, herb wisdom, Disc golf, Vegetable Gardening / orchard/farming. Sharp weapon throwing, blowguns, archery, darts ,hot sauce making, Canning,Cooking, Movies, concerts, writing, Day trips, Amusment parks . I used to do camping but who want to live homeless for any amount of time

Music - both listening and playing, reading, food, drink, and plenty of exercise in the fresh air to balance out the previous two. Also at the moment I seem to be spending a great deal of my time annoying lawyers - I think I can regard that as a very worthy hobby.

Very much into baseball, have an mlb.tv subscription for watching games in the UK and spend quite a lot of time keeping up with the stat and sabremetric side of it. I’ve discovered I really like analysing and interpreting numbers, although I have to admit there is some sabremetric stuff that still goes way above my head. Apart from that, I like video games and reading but my little one doesn’t leave much time for those!

Book-binding and rebinding. Example here: a paperback copy of F.S. Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned rebound in quarter leather (calfskin). Florentine paper wraps, French marbled endpapers (not seen). Wish I had more time for it.

Neat, @RobeAndSlippers. I used to do some of that back when I had a small press. Still have a guillotine cutter and some screwpresses in the cellar. Maybe someday…

Very cool, @RobeAndSlippers ! I had a couple relatives do that as a vocation. It’s a dying, but very necessary art. I myself collect signed first editions, leather-bound if possible.

@Bizzle Are you me? Minus the little one though.

@Mouse Thank you. That’s lovely: nice to know there are still people upholding these arts. It’s one of those things that, while demanding, is inexpressibly fulfilling once you’re holding the end product. More fulfilling when someone else is holding it: I seldom keep any for myself. @ad_noseum Thank you and yes, agreed, especially in this age of Kindles and Nooks and iPads and so forth. I admit to having more than a bit of a fetish for old books and other forgotten treasures. Here’s a copy of Machiavelli’s The Prince rebound (the original cover/wrap is on the left) in quarter calfskin, Florentine wraps and French endpapers and Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal rebound in quarter calfskin, marbled Indian (I think) wraps and, if I recall correctly, French endpapers.

Since I was a little girl, (8 years old) I’ve been a “Dojo Rat”. Lifelong martial artist…Karate, Kajukenbo, Tai Chi, Wushu, Filipino Martial arts, Japanese archery (Kyudo,). I have a studio in Seattle Washington so every day is martial arts for me and I love it. When im not working out I like riding my motorcycle, reading and i’m a slingshot/blowgun/bullwhip nut. I teach bullwhip performance artistry and make nylon bullwhips, but I’m so behind on making them since my studio had to move…I need to get on the move getting caught up! And, I love pipes and pipe tobacco.

ah the prince is it just me or is that one of the most misunderstood book. People mistake observation with advocacy. Or at least that’s my impression of that little book.

ah the prince is it just me or is that one of the most misunderstood book. People mistake observation with advocacy. Or at least that’s my impression of that little book.

It had a certain context–political and social–that I think people largely forget, ignore, or aren’t cognizant of. The author had his own reasons for writing it: staying on the good side of the Medicis was probably chief among them, though I am no historian. It’s one of those books that few people actually read, but freely decontextualize and quote for their own purposes. Actually, there are any number of books like that.

but not all of them are as good and clear minded as the Prince.

@supremecojp I’ve checked, and yes, you are me. Here are some bills you may wish to pay for me/yourself

@Bizzle I make $200 a month, I don’t think I’d be much help.

Living in the Pacific Northwest, I have plenty of outdoors opportunities available, and I try to take full advantage…river fishing for salmon, steelhead trout, and sturgeon, hunting for deer, elk, and black bear, plus an amazing assortment of small game and birds…I’m a semi-skilled pyro tech, having shot a total of 14 shows (as a helper, not as lead tech) and can make many different effects from scratch…and I have a deep appreciation of what the Scots distill so well. I have some minor experience with metal-bashing, and will be learning more when I retire, very soon now. I would like to learn to forge knives, for example. My viewpoint is that once you lose the desire to learn new things, you might as well go dig a grave and lay down in it. I try to stay too busy to feel old. Been working so far!

@Dhrun : whereabouts in the PNW are you? I’m in Seattle.

I’m a bit north of Oly and a bit south of Fort Lewis…retiring from Boeing in two weeks and looking forward to being lazy :)>-

Sail a bit. Can’t wait for the season to start again.

Snuff, snus. Gaming, music (listening and making), would love shooting, just dont have the ability to get started, cant even get the funds for an air pistol i want to replace my old broken airsoft i used for home target shooting. sort of co-run a youtube channel that hosts part of my music and gaming related videos (though as i use mac im starting to fall behind on the gaming). would love to build a gaming pc, but again, funds.

Luckily I have many interests…music, astronomy, history, biology and above all photography which for me is not digital images…in fact use only antique methods and equipments. I love old classic cars that until not long ago I collected, yes, I really like the old things! I also like target practice to which I dedicate myself with my CO2 gun. My biggest love are animals and the nature with which I have a very close relationship and this is why I like to do camping with a vintage motorhome (1971). Always as hobby i’m a snake breeder and i’ve a ball pythons farm for more than 10 years. In the end, the snuff but there is no need that I say this to you! Ah, I almost forgot…women!! :x

I love the syle of the old motorhomes. Mine isn’t a classic but it is nice. A 95 Tioga by Fleetwood

It seems that here there is more than someone who likes to do camping! I love Americans motorhomes and caravans, they are very large compared to those in Europe. A vintage American GMC would be my dream!! …But here I would get stuck at every turn.

Cars.

I like camping as well. Here is me travelling in my own sport-utility vehicle/mobile home. Everything I need to live, and it runs on water, energy bars and bananas.

side and front views

I still prefer to see xander as an old grizzled man.

CUTTER!

Gentlemen, gentlemen please calm yourselves! That was but a moment in time. I am as grizzled and whiskered as ever. Here is camping this past summer at Assateague Island sans bicycle.

still looks too young I prefer my imagination.

I present to you Old Big Wagon!

Hard rock & Heavy metal

Ah, I almost forgot…women!! :x

Looks digital to me. (just teasing) And that Old Big Wagon is quite possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life. Other than that unicorn the one time. Or my KZ900. But I digress… :)>-

@Hamlet Ahah you’re right! In fact, that is an image, not a photo. To quickly post pictures on the internet use a compact camera without commitment and without restraint. Photography to me is other… Thanks to have appreciated the old motorhome!

@OldBigWagon I still appreciate film too. I only use it for Lomo stuff now. With the volume I shoot film is no longer practical. Sad but true. Lomo snapshot.

I like Lomo style photos! I do no print photos anymore from long time, times have changed… I only developing the film at home, i use only Fujifilm Neopan 400 or Kodak TX 400 with vintage and only mechanical cameras. Then i scan the film to digitize it and i ruine everything! :)) This is one of the last photographs I made with a Nikon F and some evocative snuff in my nose.

nice! I’ve been mourning the move from film to digital, trying to make the change. My Nikon’s and 120 film cameras are gathering dust. It is sad that silver prints have all but disappeared. As you say, times have changed. I haven’t seen a good print on paper from a digital camera; perhaps the hardware exists for making prints that look good and are light-fast.

I still shoot 120 b/w film in a Kodak Hawk-Eye. The 120 fits in the top but you must have an original 620 metal roll on the bottom to rewind on or modify your own roll. 12 exposures…kind of a crap shoot and probably not worth it in this day and age, but when you get a good shot…it’s like you’re standing next to Ansel Adams for a second or two \\m/