I’ll start, 2012 Royal Enfield, it was such a head-turner and the most fun “putt putt” I ever owned, i felt all ‘old timey” whenever i took her for a spin. I almost added a side car…almost.
Post something you may want, have an interest in, a friend has, anything, i’m curious and like to get ideas of what interesting things folks enjoy or mange to get their hands on. Home-made/DIY stuff is highly encouraged too please, sometimes that’s the coolest stuff ever!
Most of my favorite gadgets I own are used for cooking stuff, and not the most photogenic, but here is my “special occasion” 10" kiritsuke knife:
I do a lot of sous vide cooking so I bought a VacMaster 215 chamber vacuum sealer a few years back:
And my most hi-tech gadget is my Breville Control Freak. It’s an induction cooker that holds temps to 1 degree of accuracy allowing for all types of applications from making candy from raw sugar without fear of burning to perfect French omelets with almost zero effort:
I cook a lot of bbq, and this is the most insane smoker I own. Made by one guy in his garage, it’s the ZMF of smokers. I don’t use it as often as I like because you need real logs to cook in it and I don’t always have wood on hand, but cooking ribs, etc. with nothing but wood is unlike anything you have ever tasted. Here is a writeup with an explanation of what makes it different:
IBM Think Pad Transnote
My dad had one for a bit when he worked for ibm. Then later in life I was able to pick one up and restore it was so much fun to bring to coffee shops.
Ahhh, that’s a pretty knife, a sharp well balanced knife that fits your hand well is a God-send in the kitchen. I never used anything fancy but I did like an old, thick, long chef’s knife that I still use to this day. For some reason I never took to the induction stuff well, I always freaked out not seeing actual flame, I was stubborn about some changes. I got to test out a fancy induction kitchen set up many years ago in a restaurant we were opening, it had a learning curve and really scared me off to be honest. I do know and understand the level of control it can give you though.
I like knives but mainly opt for a few well used different sizes for most of my cooking. There’s maybe 5 knives on that board I use almost exclusively, the rest are just shit that wound up in my box over the years 
Crazy how so many touch enabled laptop/tablet hyrbrids there are now. I own a Surface Book 2 and rarely use the pen function with it, but I love the fact that I can
If they brought back this style with the touchscreen laptop on one side and a e ink on the other that you can write on instant buy.
That may be the longest blade I ever saw on a bird’s eye paring knife (ivory handle in lower right), and I distinctly recognize the Cutco Spatula Spreader in the top right. I sold Cutco for 2 weeks out of college, and that was the one I could sell to anyone
Hey, IBM thinkpads… I remember those, back in 95 or so i used to use what i think we called an IBM 495, it was my workhorse…
Ahhh my Cutco spreader…that is my little bit of a dirty pleasure…i REALLY love it and use it all the time. The real hidden jem is the F-dick paring knife next to that abomination of a damascus blade too thick impossible for me to use parer… It sure looks good tho 
It was like magic what you wrote on the paper showed up. IBMs where tanks! miss that a bit, laptops now are more fragile.
That’s what confused me. I’ve only seen a birds eye style blade on a paring knife, but from that picture’s perspective it seemed way too big to be a paring knife
That’s what happens when you have a Pakistani master blade smith make you a knife he is not familiar with, you get some kind of bastard. *edit Karambit ( not a real word—Durkee )paring knife that you can’t really do much of anything with 
Just use it like a karambit lol 
Karambit! Yes that’s the word not Durkee, old dude brain forgetting the basics at this stage in life…
It happens to the best of us. I got to play with some of those when I worked at spider co. Along with other fun knifes.
Bless you and the patience you find to smoke meat properly, we cheated with wood chips in a small hotel pan filled with water that we would toss in the oven when we slow cooked “BBQ” then dipped the abominations we made in “BBQ sauce” slapped them on the grill to give ‘em some flavor and scorch a bit of the sugar in the sauce and pushed that that out as “BBQ”. The things you are forced to do to appease an ever fickle clientele… the horror of it was that people ate that shit up and came back for more…
I’m in NJ and people don’t know good bbq even if given the chance to eat it. I was unemployed for longer than I would have liked to be when the economy crashed in 2009-2010 and I needed something to take up literal hours of my time, if not entire days. I burned a lot of cheap meat at the beginning, then moved up to edible, but way too smoky before it finally clicked. It’s a good thing the best bbq meats are the cheapest ones. That website, amazingribs.com, really tells you how to go about it from a scientific perspective. I was pre-med in college and doing zero with my chemistry and physics education. Once I made the connection that smoking meat was a physical reaction of heat combined with time, something clicked.
Would love to get my hands on this someday. It’s an analog G shock with a small digital window. I currently have the casio duro(MDV 106 AV) which I’m content with atm and getting the oak now would be a waste of money since I’m planing to get some audio gear. Maybe when I go traveling to japan or somewhere I’ll buy this as my travel watch
