Do you guys have a pattern of modding things?

[shogunade]

I didnt know where to post this, so move if need be.

Ever since I can remember, whenever I got into anything I had to mod it.
First, GI Joes and such...always switching torsos, heads, weapons, anything...tennis rackets: strings and grips...cars: rims, kit, spoilers, exhausts, intakes, etc. golf clubs dont get me started, and now reps. Is it just me, or are there certain people with this sort of "trait"?

 

[cwazy1]

yup, its what I do as well.

 

[Ballface]

Modding is a very common hobby for watch enthusiasts; a lot of people at least have a collection of straps that they switch around on their watches (I consider this the lowest level of modding). The next step would be applying better lume on watch dials and installing genuine watch parts. Vintage-izing watches is also a popular thing to do around these parts.

The good thing about reps is that it offers an unique way of learning how a watch works; I know for certain that I'd never take apart an expensive watch bought from a boutique, but reps allow for experimenting and lowers the bar for making repairs and modifications myself.

 

[slaughterer62]

1.) Conception: laboratoire des idees; eidetic metier (Platonic); industrial design.
2.) Waiting for the component parts (the basis of the construction or armature) to surface in the glacial and icy waters of the secondary market.
3.) Putting it together and working out all of the **** ups, I should haves, and second doubts. (Long process).
4.) Taking amphetamines and drinking lots of espesso in the middle of a sunny day to assemble after cleaning the work space of every last speck of dust and showering and suiting up in industrial prophylactic work uniforms.
5.) Loving and licking the completed unit (SPK) before having to sacrifice it at the altar of the monkey market.
REPEAT AS NECESSARY (Go back to start. Collect your $200.)

 

[SSTEEL]

I'm also very likeminded, and love to tinker.

 

[TESLA760]

Yes.

 

[davylloyd]

I'm an engineer, so it comes naturally to me to want to take things apart, see how they work, how they were designed. I'm not that good an engineer that I don't have failures when it comes to putting them back together - but I don't call them failures, I call them experiments.

 

[airking]

I get into projects, get frustrated and turn out okay/average finished results then quite for a while (cause of how frustrating and annoying the project was), then repeat after a few months.

The project always sounds simple and straight forward at the beginning but in the midst of it, some crazy thing always goes wrong or some weird thing comes up that I didn't consider to make it stressful.

So to answer your question, yeah I also mod but its a love/hate thing for me lol.

 

[slaughterer62]

"but in the midst of it, some crazy thing always goes wrong or some weird thing comes up that I didn't consider to make it stressful."

+1