Displacement Activity - What's been keeping you busy today?

GarethS · Jan 14, 2023

The weather here on the south coast of England has been spectacularly dreary recently. So spending alot of time indoors, mining the depths of the to-do list of tasks whether necessary or not.

This afternoon's displacement activity: Photograph all my watches:

What's been keeping you busy?

sheepdoll · Jan 14, 2023

Watchmaking. It is the proverbial rainy day.

noelekal · Jan 14, 2023

400 miles from home, playing with the four grandkids for a few days.

Pvt-Public · Jan 15, 2023

Auto maintenance. All 4 need something or other done.🙁

janice&fred · Jan 15, 2023

Just hanging out gettin drunk and smokin dope with my pals.

__ryan__ · Jan 15, 2023

It’s been raining here in CA for many days, so my son and I undertook some Lego-building. He does most of building; I’m just quality control. Not bad for a 6-year-old.

Duracuir1 · Jan 15, 2023

janice&fred
Just hanging out gettin drunk and smokin dope with my pals.

Hesalite or sapphire?

JMO1995 · Jan 15, 2023

I’ve had the joy of painting the frame of a mirror to be used as an order of service for my wedding. I’m not artsy so I was kind of avoiding it but it’s actually been quite therapeutic to switch off and listen to some music

Aroxx · Jan 15, 2023

Two small children have displaced all of my activities. And my sanity.

Om3ga321 · Jan 15, 2023

Aroxx
Two small children have displaced all of my activities. And my sanity.

I'll give you the heads up.
The older they get the more they will displace your activities.

Jostein · Jan 15, 2023

Rain and snow in Norway, still outside for some retriver training with my flatcoat. Too wet for any photo 😀

BlackTalon · Jan 15, 2023

Turns out spending time on online forums is a good way to use up the day(s)

Aroxx · Jan 15, 2023

Om3ga321
I'll give you the heads up.
The older they get the more they will displace your activities.

Thanks for the hope. Does the sanity come back?

Twocats · Jan 15, 2023

The weekends are my busiest time with the kids and all the activities they do. Daughter does Jazz dancing, ballet and scouts and my son has golf lessons, a football match and I drive him and his mates to the gym and back. I literally drive more over the weekend than I do over the entire week. Monday mornings is the beginning of my time.

__ryan__ · Jan 18, 2023

Well, it finally stopped raining here. My Meyer lemon tree is pretty loaded-up, so me and the boys decided to make some lemonade.

Squeezing by hand keeps them busy for, oh… 10 minutes or so.

Pvt-Public · Jan 20, 2023

I installed 12v power socket for the rear passengers in my Camry. Maybe USB ports next.

Spruce · Jan 20, 2023

Duracuir1
Hesalite or sapphire?

Probably hemp?

STANDY · Jan 20, 2023

Making knives….making a run of kitchen petty knives as we speak 😉

__ryan__ · Jan 20, 2023

STANDY
Making knives….making a run of kitchen petty knives as we speak 😉

Have you experimented with different steel compositions? Do you have a preferred flavor of steel for kitchen knives?

STANDY · Jan 20, 2023

__ryan__
Have you experimented with different steel compositions? Do you have a preferred flavor of steel for kitchen knives?

Yes, have probably the biggest range of steels in my personal kitchen knives that range from mostly Japanese, custom made Damascus and high carbon steels

Preferred steel is probably Japanese Hap40. (Not that easy to come by lately as a steel. Plenty of Japanese knives made from it but hard to buy the steel itself. I have found a small supply of it but it is getting rare and expensive)

But I make knives out of a range of steels.

These currently are made out of a 80CrV2 as it’s a supper tough steel for a great tough as nails kitchen knife for the new to a hand made knife. Probably not your slice a tomato supper thin, but bone a chicken, cutting meat and cut anything else. Made for someone that would take it out as a camping kitchen knife and also use around a BBQ.

Made a forum member a super thin slicer that wanted a more stainless knife.