What's the Holy Grail item in your hobby?
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If I could time travel, I'd go see the chestnut forests first. I only learned about them a few years ago but I think about it a weird amount (maybe because I have a huge elm tree in my yard)
Like can you imagine entire states covered in them? I don't think they were quite the size of redwoods but they were ancient and well-established forests. And it makes me sad that most people don't even know what we lost because some rich asshole just HAD to have foreign trees on their estates.
because some rich asshole just HAD to have foreign trees on their estates.
Blight would have happened at some point. Global travel made it inevitable.
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So being the UK?
Sad lol.
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Designing small electronics:
Unlimited money for iterated prototyping and being able to afford 0.4mm pitch BGA fabrication and rigid-flex
Maybe holy grail "Item" would be an expensive electronics lab with a very nice R&S scope and a nice soldering station with a trinocular microscope.
Are you aware of this guy on youtube? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeEf90AEmmxaQs5BUkHqR3Q he creates some very inspired mini electronics.
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Electronics / hardware hacking and development. I have a Saleae Logic Pro 8 which is probably the most expensive thing I've ever bought in a weight to cost ratio at Ā£933 for 60g.
Works fantastically, though, and the analog function and high sample rate is what truly sets it apart from other analysers.
I don't have a personal need for a 16 channel analyser currently, so couldn't bring myself to cough up the extra Ā£500 for that model.
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In the typewriter community, the āholy grailā differs from person to person, but for me it was a 1930s Royal P equipped with a rare typeface called Vogue. Very, very rarely theyāll pop up from people who donāt know how significant that is, and thatās the only way to get one at a reasonable price - because those who do know what it is will ask thousands of dollars for it.
Eventually I found one for a comparatively cheap price (sub 1k), and the only reason someone else didnāt snap it up before I saw it was because the guy refused to ship it. Local pickup only. So I took the chance to drive the 10 hours round trip to snag it, and it sits proudly as the crown jewel of my collection:
to drive the 10 hours round trip to snag it
Fucking respect o7.
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Idk if it's just oz but I never have trouble finding the stuff, always at dans whenever I check
Never on the ground here anymore, US$100 online but not from any vendor I trust. It's a really nice ingredient for a lot of cocktails.
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A workshop
There it is! The holy grail for all my hobbies... space
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Motivation. I lost it some time around 2015 and have been kinda just killing time before death ever since.
Were you diagnosed with something at that time?
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where all the tubes and knobs rise out of it and retract back in
what the fuck
One of my favorite audiophile youtubers, Crinacle, just bought these headphones for 75k. Here's the video if you wanna watch it
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Motivation. I lost it some time around 2015 and have been kinda just killing time before death ever since.
Have you tried killing time with some hobbies?
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Getting a novel technique is impossible, there is less and less new theory, and they know all the tricks, but the only way one can possible gain an advantage on a Grandmaster is baiting them into an opening line they they do not know well and you know very well, which again is very unlikely considering they study the game for life and even then, converting said advantage would be very difficult.
The difference between International Masters and Grandmasters is big enough, but the difference between Grandmasters and amateurs is abysmal. You can see this with the Elo System (rating system), players under 200 Elo points their rival are expected to win almost never.
They can even beat amateurs with their eyes blinded, and this is not a joke, one can just see the many videos of Grandmasters giving opponents odds like this.
How tf does blindfolded playing work?
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I'll try to keep these both short.
Magic the Gathering - the "Power Nine"
There's 9 cards from the first few printings that were simply deemed too powerful. Once they were out in the real world, the folks in charge realized they weren't fun to play against, and resulted in wildly uneven games. In extreme cases, the opponent could lose without even getting a single turn. They've been banned from every format*, and have never been reprinted*. *Except of course when they are. https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Power_Nine
Model railroading (O-gauge). Lionel 770e Hudson
For O gauge size, the train everyone wishes they had in their collection is the 1937-1941 Lionel 770E. This was a super-unusual toy for its day, pretty much everything else had been aimed at younger children and a lower price point. Lionel decided to take a gamble and build a hyper realistic scale model that was aimed at young adults. It was honestly not a great seller in its day due to the high price point and the looming threat of WW2. But it was, and still is, considered one of the highpoints of the industry. You could argue that the current Lionel company is founded on this concept, as their VisionLine products are focused on ultra-realistic toys for grown ups (which will always be funny, as yes, our track has 3 rails).
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I guess an Eleiko barbell:
Pretty much the Rolls Royce of barbells.
My dude. $1,200 is not all that much if it's something that is going to be part of the rest of your life.
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Any serious guitarists will let you know their holy grail.
It's not any guitar; it's another guitar.
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The Klon Centaur is a highly praised guitar pedal that, since it had a limited production, has an unsustainable price for most of the players (some people paid up to 20.000$ for one).
Luckily the circuit is easy to copy and over the years many clones from other brands came out. But still, the original one holds a special charm and has become a higly collectible trinket. -
White border tho...
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Super subjective, but for my handtool woodworking, my grail is a pistol grip Stanley 610 drill. Do t know why, but ever since I saw one, Iāve wanted it!
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How tf does blindfolded playing work?
They can hear the moves in algebraic notation, and then they play their move(either someone plays them physically for them or they have invisible pieces in the computer interface).
They have to remember the whole board position though, which is what makes it harder.
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Woodworking: An entire log of American Chestnut.
About a century ago, the species was all but wiped out by a blight that came from Japanese chestnut. Some three billion trees died. The blight actually survives in the forest living on but not damaging oak trees, so American chestnuts are struggling to reclaim their historic habitats. The species is critically endangered and efforts to rehabilitate the population are underway, including trying to breed large surviving individuals or to genetically engineer blight resistant trees. Logging is of course completely out of the question.
American Chestnut is an excellent lumber, with many of the properties of white oak in a faster growing tree. It is straight grained, hard and strong, easy to saw and split, rot resistant due to tannins. A fantastic choice for indoor and outdoor furniture, structural timber, even telephone poles. Reclaimed chestnut timber from old buildings is highly prized, and what woodworker wouldn't love access to a few hundred board feet of freshly kiln dried American chestnut...if it was possible to ethically source.
Thanks, now I want one too. Is there any feasible way to start trying to grown some of these myself, while obviously attempting to prevent infection of my crop?
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Farmers used to just let their critters loose into the forests to eat the chestnuts off the forest floor because there were just so many. Now I think every American chestnut tree alive has a name.
This made me immediately sad
