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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[–] akincisor@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I bought a $20 Stanley sharptooth saw and a few second hand chisels.

See the banner on !woodworking@lemmy.ca

And I haven't even bought any stationary tools 😅

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I just had to replace the body/sole of my father's old Stanley Bailey smoothing plane, because the cast iron got brittle in England's winter chill and as I picked it up one morning it fell and smashed in two 😭

Was surprisingly easy to find replacement original Stanley Bailey parts cheap though, so I got it fixed up good as new :-D