What else do you collect?

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What else do you collect?

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For some reason (probably winter boredom), I decided to make a list of everything I have collected during the last 30 odd years.

Fishing Collections:
Greenheart fly rods
Bamboo spinning rods
Airex items
Fly line tins
Skeleton reels
Nottingham reels
Ted Williams fly and spinning equipment
Bradco bullet reels
Quilby and Actual lures
Early spinning reels
Casting weights

Non-fishing Collections:
Woodworking tools
Native American artifacts and art
Antique Winchester rifles
Custom knives
Clocks
Pocket watches
Space artifacts
Maps, globes and documents
Illuminated manuscript leaves
Rocks, minerals, and fossils
Scientific instruments
Antiquarian books
Paperweights, bookends and office items
Antique phonographs

I don't know if I have a problem, but I might. :D Anyone else want to fess up?
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Silk rod winding thread, obscure Izaak Walton items, and nautical charts.
Trying to quit

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My tastes are probably too eclectic to say I “collect” any one thing. Take my rod collection, for instance, which is all over the place and attuned to my needs and enjoyment. But when my daughter visits, she’s been heard to exclaim, “Jeez Dad, you live in a GD museum!” The “museum” is heavily weighted to Native American and Central American art and artifacts: pots, masks, baskets, images, 50+ kachinas, rugs and Inuit carvings. Plus an interesting amalgamation of spirit figures from a tribal group in Mexico and some items from the Amazon. All with a story, none very well displayed. Makes the place lively and unusual.

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I collect flies tied by noted tyers, with a signature card if I can get it, and Native American Kachinas!

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Interesting that a Native American commonality seems to be emerging…
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No pictures? C'mon, show the stuff--or, as the saying goes, it didn't happen and doesn't exist.

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I "collect" a lot of stuff but nothing in particular; I refer to myself as a Professional Accumulator.
I spent most of my money on shotguns, fly rods, guitars and banjos. The rest I just wasted. (Apologies to W.C. Fields)

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The only other thing I collect are post cards of Ruffed Grouse.

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Steel guitars

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Dust.
Gary

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Hellmtflies wrote:
12/28/20 09:52
The only other thing I collect are post cards of Ruffed Grouse.
I collect post cards from Ruffed Grouse. Mostly in the form of feathers and poo on my truck.

I have fishing reels sprinkled throughout the house which my wife loves. I also have some native american artifacts which I found as a kid.

I collect some old and new mining mineral specimens.
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I spend as much time as possible on Lake Superior beaches so I have some agates, thompsonite and prehnite around the house.
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Living in Michigan contractually obligates you to have some Petoskey Stone.
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These don't really count since I'll leave them when I sell the house but when we dug the foundation for the new garage we came across the old trash pit including some interesting bottles from the early 1900's.
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Very nice TimM!
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No one has mentioned ex-wives so far.

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Bamboo fly rods
U.S. Gold coins
C-2 (63 to 67) Corvettes
Baseball caps from fly shops I have been in.
Concert tickets

One discards ex wifes!

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...and two ex wives.

Dean.

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OK, I'll join in the picture fest.

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A few custom recurves and quite a few longbows. If you tear your rotator cuff however you find it pretty easy to end up with none and waiting on a new lighter weight 36 lb. longbow in order to shoot 3d competitions (or to shoot anything else for that matter).

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PYochim wrote:
12/28/20 13:22
No one has mentioned ex-wives so far.
Mentioning that collection triggers my f,f,f ef, ef, sh, sh... . tourette's syndrome.

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gt05254 wrote:
12/28/20 11:46
Dust.
Gary
HA!!! Taanx for da laff. :lol

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Admittedly, I've been a "collector" since childhood. Besides collecting lots of fly fishing tackle and memorabilia associated with ongoing discussions here on this Forum, I also collect:

* Classic sports cars-full size and die cast models
* Arts & Crafts ('Mission') era furniture, lighting, pottery, art, metal ware and books.
* Frederic Remington repro bronzes
* SxS shotguns
* Lots of books on fly fishing, classic cars, bird hunting and railroads.
* Narrow gauge model railroading items.
* Mason duck decoys
* Sporting art
* California plein air paintings
* Specialty magazines too

Collecting...it's indeed a disease for which there is no cure!

Scott
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"An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity" - Thomas McGuane

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