Post Your Collection
 

Post your collections of whatever here. Flashlights. Cars. Dildos. Toenail clippings. Whatever.

In my case, it's lighters. Here are most of my Zippos, and a few others.

Because Tulip asked nicely. Twice.

Pic 2 is a ZipLight, a fairly bright single LED light that fits in a standard Zippo case.

Pic 3 is "The Cent Never Spent" to repair a Zippo lighter.

Pic 4 is one of Grandpappydigr's Zippos (I cut the lighter out of the pic, dangit, you can see it in the big pic), sent through the Zippo Repair Clinic circa 1972; and a Zippo w/a fossilized shark tooth.

Top pic is a Zippo Blu, a "modern" blue jet-flame lighter, w/classic wheel and flint for ignition; and a Zippo Rule, a ruler made from the bottom of a standard Zippo.

The others aren't Zippos, just interesting. Uncle Jarhead offered me $25 for the little lighter with the Eagle Globe & Anchor.

What do you got a bunch of?

I like lighters grav. Good collection:)


I have got a bunch of bears and angels. I don't like bears and angles so much as to have a collection but people just give them to me. I only have one stuffed bear. He is wearing motorcycle gear, and so, that's ok.

I would post a pick but the bears are boxed away and the angels are scattered.

I'll think of something, else and post a pic sometime.

That is a cool collection digr. I'll think of something to start hoarding soon enough. :)

One small collection.

Sig Sig HK Smith Smith ,
SCHWEEEET !!!

I have since traded in the Sig for a Glock 30. And added a Ruger .22 and inherited another one. I need to update my pic. This does not include my 16 or so Long guns.

Nice Zippos, Grav. :) I'm gonna make more comments later, but I want to show off my small knife collection first. :D

That's a nice collection Tulip. I see you're fond of one-handed openers. Do you have family Eskrima training?

Nopes. I did learn the double baton once, but that was just once for performance. I didn't practice enough to use. :(

Grav, love the Women of the Moose. Dad was a Moose (I think he dropped his membership when the club moved way across town) and used to tease mom "with an attitude like that, you'll never get into Moosehaven."

Tulip: my dad has a collection of knives he keeps in a nice box. We call it "Dad's Killin' Box." :lol:

:)

very nice collections all!
i used to have a very nice collection of zippos, knives, and guns but lost all of them in the crazy bitch disaster. i may still have some knives or zippos though. i haven't seen my storage since i've been home and my sister is not sure what all my mom packed up when i went down. here though are a few of what i used to have.

Tulip, you are fascinating. First you play the ukulele, then you have a flashlight collection, and now a knife collection. What other wacky secrets do you have??

I also have a Zippo, pen, and sword collection, which I'll post the pix later. :D

Hehehe....I put my knives in a nice box too. ;)

I'm obviously going to have to start collecting things...

You mean aside from souls?

hee hee hee

I thought reading this thread I don't have a collection. DOH! :smack:

I swear I have not added to this in a decade but there are 3 shelves in that curio besides these I have photographed real quick. Then there is the clock the stained glass, the plate, and I do have the original oil painting used by the Danbury Mint to recreate the plate and the clock.

i like the bottom left pic that mentions sex!

(been 10 months, gimme a break! :lol2:)

Gravdigr: Pity I can't see your Zippos closer. You've got some nice ones there. I really like the Zippo with the ruler. :D The other ones are neat too!

Mercenary: I don't know anything guns but I'm gonna make a comment anyways. Those look nice. :D I thought you might have a bigger collection than that. Or did not consider your rifles in the gun collection?

Nirvana: All those look like your dog. Or is everything fashioned after your dog?

sexobon: I like one-handed opener knives because I pocket my knives. I want to be able to open them quickly to use in case I need to. :cool:

Rifles not included. I think we counted 27 total in the collection last count.

The Danbury mint items were created from a photograph of one of my dogs.
I saw my Best of Opposite Sex ribbon showed up in that photo and I left it in for giggles! :p:

What is the opposite of sex?

Need to what? Shank some dude?

Tulip, what's the smallest knife used for?

No sex? ;)

shanking toddlers, duh.

making love

Eww.

If the Best of Breed turns out to be male, the best female gets Best of Opposite Sex... and vice versa.

Obviously, you have never been to Houston. hehe...I'm a very tiny person. I protect myself. ;)

Hmm....it's just a pretty and cute knife? :p: It's great for opening boxes. :D I thought you meant the white handle one, second to last from the bottom, when I read your question. That goes into my keychain in my purse.

I posted part of my collection in the Dweller, NSFW thread. :D

Haha...Sheldon, are you really as naughty as you seem in the forum?

This is my Zippo collection. See the one in the lower right hand corner of the case? That's titanium. ;) :D

My Retro 51 pens. :)

This is the box I put my knives in. The two butterfly knives are in drawer and one on my table so I can grab it easily before I leave my home. Everything else is in this box.

Nice goodys Tulip

Oh and I Love Yer "BOX" !!!!! ;)

Actually, yes. But not as much as I used to be. 1-2 guys per week. I used to do that per day during the week 10 years ago. lol

Somehow, I just knew Tulip would have a beautiful box...:D

That is awfully darn fancy for a killin' box. :)

does anyone think maybe tulip is bruce's soul mate?

Bruce is a serial soul mate. ;)

i'm finding that out!

Got a new addition for my plane collection this week. Went to Asheville, NC, and picked this old transitional plane up at an antique store there. A belated birthday present from my mother in law. It's about 110 years old.

I didn't start out wanting to be a plane collector. These are tools that I use, and each has a special job it does. I've got 8 of them so far. Each has a story.

Don't you think that's a bit unkind?

This was my grandfather's. It's really the peak of the technology of mass production plane making. It's a Stanley Bedrock jack plane. An excellent all around tool. A few years before I inherited this, my brother had given me a modern version of essentially the same plane. That modern version is a really expensive and lovingly built reproduction of the old tool. It keeps everything good about the original and improves on it by machining to finer tolerances and using heavier iron for the cutting edge. It's a really beautiful tool, made by a small company in Maine, and it works really well, but I prefer the one my grandfather used.

There's a place in Denver called Packrat Antiques that has great science antiques. There's an old man who runs it who is notoriously rude. My experience matched most of the negative reviews you'll find here:
http://local.yahoo.com/info-19606029...ntiques-denver

and here:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/packrat-anti...NnG8feYRTpEWeQ

I was looking at slide rules and when I didn't buy one he said, You just wasted 45 minutes of my time! Don't hurry back!

(I feel like I've posted this before.)

This one on top was also my grandfather's. It can get into corners to cut rabbets and tenons, but I've never had much luck with it.

The other one is a modern low angle block plane. It's the one I use the most.

Awesome glatt! Pete's cousins hubby collects planes. Pretty cool hobby. He's a professional wood worker so its part of a whole lifestyle thing as well.

I remember playing with one of my grandfather's planes when I was little. I still have the scars.

Wow Fantasy Island!

I've never heard of that place. Now I want to go visit it.

I can imagine your having wanted to be a highly ornamented collector instead ...

Carpentry runs in the family, then, eh?


I guess it's deeply ingrained ...

Oh? Why so? I am now curious. :D

Glatt, I have a couple of those small metal ones. I inherited them indirectly from my wife's father who got them from his father.

because you have a lot of doo-dads and so does bruce.

Mmmmm... Doo Dads! The original snack mix in a box. I want some. The stuff that comes in a bag just isn't as good.