Post a picture of your most recent purchase....(not poker chips) (9 Viewers)

Tight_Lay_DOWN said:
It is difficult to say, I have 1 beautiful board, hand made locally by a craftsman, just the best, paid very little for it in my opinion Had it for years, 20 plus years, and it’s the only one I have and the only one I need.
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I don’t know about a “big deal,” but there are definitely people out there making them. Due to my work, I get emails from independent wood makers about them from time to time.
 
Finally got our pool cage repaired after Hurricane Milton

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Not sure how to take a pic of a stock purchase but I'm happy to share I bought 7 $SPY today instead of impulsively buying more tigers lol.
 
Stock photo only, since I don't have them in hand yet, but I had a fitting yesterday for some new irons, and went with the Mizuno JPX 925 hot metals.

Had no idea how great the technology is with newer irons, or maybe just how bad my old ones were. Went from around 130 carry with the 7 iron in my 20 yr old set of MacGregor Vfoil forged irons to 155 carry with these. AND better ball speed, launch angle, and most importantly, the same descent angle. So effectively, this seven iron has the distance of my old 5 iron, but still flies and sticks like a 7. Unreal. Champions Tour - Here I come!!! :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:

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Sometimes you show up to Costco with a Uhaul to pick up some tool chests and shelving and wind up going home with a whole lot more. I had to do a double take when I saw the price of this console at $100 when just a few days ago it was 5 or 6 times that. I was really hoping for one with an electric fireplace, but at that price I couldn’t resist.

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I still have to level the doors, and I’ll need to raise the TV if I want to get my center channel some work, but in this space, I’m not sure it’s even worth it. The Infinity IL60’s should do plenty of heavy lifting now that they’re finally unwrapped
 
Love Robin Williams!!! :love:

My father had the same type of dementia that Robin had at the end of his life. It is sheer hell. Like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and more, all rolled into one.
 
A couple of gems arrived on Friday that expand on my second biggest money-sink hobby after poker chips... animation art:

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/things-you-collect-besides-poker-chips.74301/#post-1506098

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(no room to get a picture with the Nixie clock here... so my LEGO build station with a 1/3 complete T-Rex will have to do.)


A month ago, the gallery in Los Angeles that is the main source for my animation art "habit" announced an auction of items from the Bob Clampett estate. Bob was part of the group of directors at Warner Brothers who made many of the unforgettable Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons during the "golden age of animation" in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Nearly 1000 items were up for bid from his early sketchbooks as a child, his high-school yearbooks all the way through to his time making the Beany and Cecil TV show were made available.

I made a list, prioritized those as best I could within my budget and started taking a stab on auction day... especially day two when the items I was most interested went up.


I got out bid... severely... on a few items I wanted to add to the collection, including production used art from "Falling Hare" as well as a model sheet for the Gremlin from that short (one of the few Looney Tunes where Bugs Bunny gets bested by another character). When the dust settled on the items I was interested in, I came out of it a bit lighter in the bankroll, but with two pretty great items.


The drawing for the title card(s) from the early 1940s re-defined the layout and look of the presentation of the cartoons in that era. The "Warner Bros. Present" had been used previously and is still used in a similar form even today, but this particular version from 1944 was the standard bearer for most of the rest of the decade. Minor changes were made, but this version held for quite some time. A small variation of this was used for the "Blue Ribbon" re-issues in the early 1950s as well.

The bids on the "Merrie Melodies" layout sheet went beyond my range before I started in earnest on auction day, which disappointed me a bit, but having 1/3 of the iconic set (the others being Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes) doesn't hurt my feelings.

I have a title card sheet from Tom and Jerry (seen in the thread I posted above) that will make a nice pair on the wall once this gets framed.


The Bugs Bunny model sheet was my no. 2 in the auction (after the Gremlin model sheet). This is the first model sheet of the "modern" and still current design for Bugs. (Model sheets would have been handed out to the animators to maintain consistency of the character throughout the production of a single short and often across several shorts. A director would create a model sheet before production to make sure things met their expectation.)

It's fascinating to see the details that were emphasized here ("lots of teeth when necessary!").


A couple of really cool items to add to the animation art collection. I wish I had the budget to expend on a couple of the items I wound up losing. There were so many brilliant and iconic pieces in this particular sale that just browsing the auction catalog was a treat in itself.
 

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