What do you do for fun?

Ohh my gosh this is tough question what do I do for fun lol, I’m a Jack of all trades and likes pretty much anything where life and fun would lead too..

Personally I like Flying in single prop planes or twin prop, occasionally if I can hop in a Jet well it’s a rollercoaster of a ride but fun…Always cool to look down your wing when turning and making sharp
turns..besides that I like cycling, kayaking and staying active by taking long walks and exploring the nature…

I’m happy to be here on DFS such a great Wet- Shaving Cumunity get to know folks and learn something new everyday.. 

I enjoy polishing razors as my hobby when I can it’s a process and lot’s of hard work behind scene hours/days spend to get that beautiful desired finish to make it transform to a jewel type finish 

Stay Healty / Stay Positive / Life is Good 

Best Regards

Alan H

Fun with Swords.


I made that buckler, BTW.

Selecting a suitable place to rivet the handle, purposely a bit off-centre.

Sadly, COVID-19 has put quite a damper on the Rapier Combat activities. Also target archery, which me and the Missus just got started in.

Making kites!
 Brazillian-style fighter kite, scaled up by about 3:2 to make it less twitchy.
  "Urban Ninja" Low-wind/No-wind glider kite 
 "MiniMock Foil", (20 square feet) Only the interior dividing panels have colour, hence the soft diffused colour.

Ohashi design variation, with "Radical Ed"

An excellent light-wind flier.

My pride & joy:



"FF04" flowform, with 75-foot tails. Thirty pieces of ripstop in just the kite. I usually need 450# braided Dacron line to fly it.

Mowing interesting patterns into my lawn.
The first one was based on the labyrinth floor tile pattern in Chartres Cathedral.


This was the 2015 version:


And . . . You can never have enough guitars (and stuff)!

Missing from the family photo: a new Yamaha GL1 "Guitalele", which the Missus forced me to buy.

Most recently, doing sound for a community theatre group. Music playback, sound effects, etc.

You are a busy man!

Apart from my one "hobby" ....making shaving brushes I like to shoot and also reload my own ammo.
Then I love to ride. Yes, on a horse.
This one is Hallie, Kiger mustang. Her owner's daughter went to France to study at the famous Cadre Noir in Saumur for a year, and later go on to Uni for law there.
Hallie was not ridden for some two years due the rider being away. When covid hit, another horse I was leasing was taken to different barn with less restrictions, and I was out of a mount.
My trainer (in the one picture below) had the idea I might try Hallie - but the trainer was pretty sure it may not work out. How wrong she was, Hallie and I seem to be good match.
She is a beautiful horse, and I was able to buy her last August since the owner also moved to France. I really love this one, she is the sweetest horse (at least to me...), she does not like many others, especially females, except my wife and trainer. We did some shows late in 2020 and quite a few last year. Due to my age (old guy) there are not many classes we can go in, but we were able to win the Circuit Grand Champion ribbon for the Outreach Silver Stirrup class at Nona Garson's Ridge at Riverview here in beautiful New Jersey.

She’s beautiful Rudy.

Wow. You guys are incredible! Is there anything you all can't do?

John Rose, I want to learn how to cut a labyrinth into my back lawn. How did you figure that out?

I'm afraid I don't have any other hobby besides sampling shaving gear. When I tell my friends what I do for fun, there's always this look of surprise followed by disbelief and then a polite turning away. It's really nice to have a place like DFS to talk about this strange fascination.

Get a whitewater kayak and start something new at Pipeline!  That’ll get some attention.

John Rose, I want to learn how to cut a labyrinth into my back lawn. How did you figure that out?

Oh, now you've got me going.

See https://northernelectric.ca/medieval/lab...yrinth.htm - "Hew" is the name of my Society for Creative Anachronism persona.

• Most essential is to have a mower whose cutting height can be raised and lowered. For the paths, use the lowest or second-lowest setting, almost scalping it down to the dirt.
  
• A pair of central stakes around which you wrap the radius rope tied to one of them allows you to do a close approximation of Archimedean spirals.
  
• You may need lots of brightly-coloured stakes or small flags to mark some dimensions.
  
• Graph paper appropriate for the design - https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ - or a simple CAD app.
  
• A long (100 or 200 foot) tape measure.
  
• Design Tip: when you have intersections and forks of paths, try to have an even number of paths entering or exiting each intersection. Any time you have, say, three paths like in a Y intersection, that means you have to go over some part of it twice. If it's a dead-end, that mean 1 path (a odd number) and you have to back-track or shut off the mower to go somewhere else. Some times it's worth it, as in a triskelion design.
  
• Most of the work is in laying out the guide lines and markers on the lawn for the first cutting. For the rest of the summer you just follow the paths from the first cutting, starting with the mower set low. Then you raise it to the highest setting and finish by ignoring the paths and mowing all over with your usual route, whether a rectangular spiral or boustrophedon style.
  

Oops. The links in that page are mostly dead now. I think they all moved to https://www.theedkins.co.uk/jo/maze/index.htm
The "Cretan Maze" is a very ancient and popular one, but relatively simple to plan out, starting with the cross and four corner dots. All the curves can be laid out with a stake and radius rope, once you figure out where to place the stakes, how long to make the rope, and where to start and stop the arcs.

Note: In this image the blue lines are the walls, not the path. It's actually a labyrinth, not a maze, since there is only one possible ("unicursal") path.
See https://www.theedkins.co.uk/jo/maze/cretan/index.htm

Sadly, not all patterns that look good on paper will work on the lawn.
One year I did a Peano fractal curve, about like the "Level 2" version in this image...

But you could not see it well when driving by or walking past it. You had to be standing right next to it or on it to "get it". I deem it to be my least interesting lawn pattern. It did have the practical advantage of being a single line.

Now that I think about it, I have to start planning this year's pattern.

John Rose, I want to learn how to cut a labyrinth into my back lawn. How did you figure that out?

Oh, now you've got me going.

See https://northernelectric.ca/medieval/lab...yrinth.htm - "Hew" is the name of my Society for Creative Anachronism persona.

• Most essential is to have a mower whose cutting height can be raised and lowered. For the paths, use the lowest or second-lowest setting, almost scalping it down to the dirt.
  
• A pair of central stakes around which you wrap the radius rope tied to one of them allows you to do a close approximation of Archimedean spirals.
  
• You may need lots of brightly-coloured stakes or small flags to mark some dimensions.
  
• Graph paper appropriate for the design - https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/ - or a simple CAD app.
  
• A long (100 or 200 foot) tape measure.
  
• Design Tip: when you have intersections and forks of paths, try to have an even number of paths entering or exiting each intersection. Any time you have, say, three paths like in a Y intersection, that means you have to go over some part of it twice. If it's a dead-end, that mean 1 path (a odd number) and you have to back-track or shut off the mower to go somewhere else. Some times it's worth it, as in a triskelion design.
  
• Most of the work is in laying out the guide lines and markers on the lawn for the first cutting. For the rest of the summer you just follow the paths from the first cutting, starting with the mower set low. Then you raise it to the highest setting and finish by ignoring the paths and mowing all over with your usual route, whether a rectangular spiral or boustrophedon style.
  

Oops. The links in that page are mostly dead now. I think they all moved to https://www.theedkins.co.uk/jo/maze/index.htm
The "Cretan Maze" is a very ancient and popular one, but relatively simple to plan out, starting with the cross and four corner dots. All the curves can be laid out with a stake and radius rope, once you figure out where to place the stakes, how long to make the rope, and where to start and stop the arcs.

Note: In this image the blue lines are the walls, not the path. It's actually a labyrinth, not a maze, since there is only one possible ("unicursal") path.
See https://www.theedkins.co.uk/jo/maze/cretan/index.htm

Sadly, not all patterns that look good on paper will work on the lawn.
One year I did a Peano fractal curve, about like the "Level 2" version in this image...

But you could not see it well when driving by or walking past it. You had to be standing right next to it or on it to "get it". I deem it to be my least interesting lawn pattern. It did have the practical advantage of being a single line.

Now that I think about it, I have to start planning this year's pattern.

Well, this is incredible. Every now and then someone opens a whole new window on the world. Today, that's what you've done for me. Thanks, John. I've got some research do get started on, and once I get my labyrinth cut, I may even think about putting in a little sprinkler system to keep it green. All of a sudden, life's an interesting puzzle again. 

YouTube channel. I'd probably keep making videos about something else if it wasn't shaving stuff.

I had a blog for a while. I really enjoy writing, but I hate the SEO and copywriting nonsense you have to do to get blog traffic.

Disc golf. I find it far more fun than ball golf. Been playing for around 8 months and love it more every time I play.

Reading.

YouTube channel.  I'd probably keep making videos about something else if it wasn't shaving stuff.

I had a blog for a while.  I really enjoy writing, but I hate the SEO and copywriting nonsense you have to do to get blog traffic.

Disc golf.  I find it far more fun than ball golf.  Been playing for around 8 months and love it more every time I play.

Reading.

Right I talked to you on YouTube regarding Yates razor your a great YouTuber   thank you for tips and advice Apprecited very much..

Best Regards

Alan H

YouTube channel.  I'd probably keep making videos about something else if it wasn't shaving stuff.

I had a blog for a while.  I really enjoy writing, but I hate the SEO and copywriting nonsense you have to do to get blog traffic.

Disc golf.  I find it far more fun than ball golf.  Been playing for around 8 months and love it more every time I play.

Reading.

Right I talked to you on YouTube regarding Yates razor your a great YouTuber   thank you for tips and advice Apprecited very much..

Best Regards

Alan H

Thanks for the encouragement. I have a giveaway coming up on Saturday, so be on the lookout for that one.