What's the Holy Grail item in your hobby?
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My hobby is (or rather was) collecting Seiko watches.
I stopped buying watches, but my holy Grail would be "The" Pogue. The original 6139-6005 yellow face automatic chronograph worn by Col. William Pogue on the Skylab mission.
Other than the NASA issued Omegas, this was his personal watch that he just took with him into space, as NASA didn't want the Astronauts to take their Speedmasters home and so they couldn't train as much with them.
This also was the first automatic chronograph in space, as no one had tried before if they would work without gravity (surprise, they did, as momentum is still very much a thing in space).
Here is a very nice write up by a very knowledgeable guy:
https://www.plus9time.com/blog/2017/12/24/the-true-seiko-pogue-chronograph-6139-6005
Mmm love a good space watch. Personal grail for me would be an Omega Skywalker X-33.
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SAKO TRG 22/42 A1 a good home defense tool for light sleepers.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Why use a gun chambered in 6.5cm, 308win, 300wm, or 338lapua for home defense, unless you mean defense of your large estate and need long range? Shotguns are long and unwieldy. I'd go for hand guns with rounds that distort when they hit something so there is less chance of penetration and continuing on. Most likely 22lr or 9mm. 22 has less stopping power, but usually more capacity.
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Steady hands. For both of my hobbies.
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Size 14 socket head
I think you mean 10mm?
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Steady hands. For both of my hobbies.
In my hobbies it's relaxed hands (motorcycles and tennis)
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KissBee
First hit, confusingly, is this:
Further down I see a group of girls -- Japanese pop music? That would have been more informative than 'idols'.
I'm sorry I failed you. You may punish me as you see fit.
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3 other cool nerds to play board games with consistently.
I was going to say Glory to Rome but your answer is better.
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Size 14 socket head
Best I can do is 9/16
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I'm a book collector, sadly most of the books in my preferred address are, and forever, will be out of my reach. My holy grail is The Magus by Francis Barrett (1801), it's basically a guidebook to the occult. I've got a facsimile edition published in 1970 but I've never seen or heard of a original copy for sale - not that I've searched, I don't wish to see an old man cry.
This post has some real The 9th Gate vibes. Love it. I hope you find your book someday.
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The legendary spray and pray.
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3 other cool nerds to play board games with consistently.
Meanwhile, I keep ending up in rooms with board game nerds, and I only kind of like board games.
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As someone who has started rewriting an old Summer Camp Island fanfiction I started around 2019 and never got very far with, I'm gonna have to say concentration and not getting writers block as the combo that would be the holy grail IMO. I'm sure a lot of writers in general could probably agree with that.
I definitely wanna get back into fanfic writing to a degree, but concentration and writers block have been my enemy.
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The Alpha Lotus
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Atari Falcon
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Astronomy, something like this https://www.telescopesplus.com/products/meade-16-inch-lx200-acf-f-10-advanced-coma-free-telescope
How much of that cost is the optics? I'm pretty sure there's an open-source design for a diamond lathe that could turn them.
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As an old and broken skateboarder, I would love nothing more than a pump track within driving distance.
There are some great parks, but nothing with enough flow that I can just carve around to work up a sweat without have to push or climb a ramp to drop in all the time.
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I dream of one day finding an original Model M keyboard in a Goodwill or yard sale for like $10. Every time I'm in a thrift store I look over the electronics section JUST in case.
Also waiting for the day I find a random copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Sega Saturn. Only 20,000 north American copies were made, which sounds like a lot but in video game numbers is insanely low. I've only ever seen it in the real world once at a gaming convention and it sold for $1,500.
JFC I had that game! Only could get like six games for the Saturn in the US (nights into dreams, clockwork toy knight, a tactical RPG that had a big rabbit in the intro (sorry I forgot the name), owner dragoon, and virutua fighter). Dan I had so many super obscure games from the discount bin cause they weren't popular new. Now everybody wants them.
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I really want a used arcade machine for drum mania. It's a party of my childhood I miss
If you're so inclined and have the time, you can make a USB controller to play it on your computer with an Arduino, pads, and some piezo speakers.
https://medium.com/@elainezshen/diy-electronic-drumset-for-drummania-bbcb6524e335
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The true Holy Grail item in my hobby of motorcycle riding would be a MotoGP bike.
Realistically the achievable halo option is a 1000cc supersport and lots of track days.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I see a guy pop up on my you tube shorts who talks about his Aprilla a bunch. Says it's not really worth the headache when something that would be simple to fix on a mass produced bike, isn't cause there only like 5,000 of that model ever made.
I say this but if I had fu money, I would definitely buy a Koenigsegg.
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I'm a photography nerd.
There's a bunch of rare and expensive cameras, of course, so I could probably just say "oh, probably anything from Leica".
But the real snobs go for turbo rare lenses. As a Nikon fan, I hope that I shall one day be allowed to the same airspace as the hallowed Nikkor 13mm f/5.6. The first ultrawide non-fisheye lens. 350 of these were made, each individually blessed by priests as they left the factory, or so the story goes. They cost an arm and leg - wait, in this economy, an arm and leg would probably be cheaper.
