As above.

Following on from another thread, we still use a Sharp (6-head, NiCAM Hi-Fi ) VHS video recorder to record telly and watch retro videos. I also have a Tascam 4-track portastudio from the 80s that I'm thinking of renovating. Anybody else still making flint axes in their shed?

 

Do wives count?

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Yes - I still have to use a Windows laptop.

 

Mine can count like a darts player. She can work out exactly how much she has saved in the sales by spending hundreds of pounds!

 

Bugger! David......I was just going to say Mr OS!

 

Dare i say it but i still crack my old master system out for Alex the kid

 

My turntable and associated vinyl.

 

A Yankee screwdriver.

None of this quick 'n' easy electric stuff, oh no.

 

Compass and a map.

 

Well, I'm using a Marshall guitar amp that still employs some of the earliest technology - thermionic amplification tubes; the weird thing is, nothing else comes close when it comes to amplifying electric guitars. Something about the way a thermionic valve begins to distort when it's overdriven by an electric guitar is perceived as extremely musical by the human ear. I sometimes wonder how much superb quality gear gets dumped for inferior sh1te these days, simply because technicians want £50 per hour plus parts to fix anything when it breaks and that's only when the companies can be arsed to manufacture the parts.

 

Sonic the hedgehog on the mega drive

Swade jacket come s out sometimes

 

Do you really use a Yankee? I've got one of those inherited from my Dad (I'm 48, lol), in excellent condition, but never got the knack of using one. I know that in the hands of a skilled man they're easily as fast as the best electric driver at putting screws in.

 

WTF

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TX.

 

Gramaphone,

Talking Picture Machine,

Iron, heated on the range,

Mangle,

Open Fire, and a fancy Sega Game Gear .....

 

Filofax! My life would be over without it! At least the batteries never run out though

 

Gotta love the old school mate.

 

I have one and use it all the time. Once you get the knack of using it it is a fantastic tool. Trouble is I don't think of it as outmoded LOL

 

Proper old fashioned iron

 

Bubba, have you still got your leather trousers

 

Certainly do, a Stanley.

Had it since my apprentice days in 1986.
Beats carrying around an electric one anyday, seeing as I don't use it that much

 

Bit of a suntan you got there, mate.

Still using the Mazola sun cream then?

 

Of course - still fit into them and still occasionally wear them. Did you know that my only ban on here was from when I once responded to sarasquares slagging me off about wearing them, back when deBanke was determined to kill off the Muppet Show? True.

 

That was my sherpa as we were on holiday

 

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I've got a pic of your rear in those troosers. The Po' Boys Gig.
Didn't know that about Sara

Sorry, back on topic. We still use the good old fashioned separates hi fi system. Got loads of old vinyl too. It's brilliant

 

Razors. all varieties oldest i use is around 90-100 years

 

Now that's interesting. I always fancied a straight-blade razor, and can get hold of an old one from work. What are your tips for sharpening and honing?

 

My son throws his matchbox cars down the stairs, some of which are the very same ones I used to throw the stairs 35 years ago!

 

Start off with a good flat 1k stone, once it takes hairs off progress upwards, i go to 16k stone wise but most get on with 10k.

Also take your time, the 1k stone is the bevel setter, so the most important, that'll determine how good your edge will be, blade has to look similar on each side.

Failing that just sling it my way i'll sharpen the bugger up.

 

Well, I'm no stranger to sharpening a wood chisel or plane blade 'til it takes the hairs off. Do you use a strop at all? What about a honing compound to rub on the leather?