Im not sure if this post matters but im bored.
Ive debated on making stickers or candles just to learn something but im unsure as i dont have a use for them afterwards, havent tried it yet because i overthink.
Should i go with one of the crafts i suggest or is there something more suited for men out there, maybe bread making?
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Don’t get much cheaper than bushcraft/primitive survival! The materials are everywhere. A primitive stone knife is my next project: get a nice piece of flint from a river bed, a decent hammer stone, a few other simple items, and start knapping. It’s amazing how sharp a piece of stone can get! Or, build a fire, expand it to a mud kiln and fire some earthware pottery you just worked from the land. Reclaim some dead timber and build a small cabin. Collect various grasses and make a basket. And, start a fire via friction. Learn how we did it thousands of years ago.
Favorite YouTube channels: Donny Dust, Primitive Technology, Bertram, Coalcracker Bushcraft, Woodsbound Outdoors.
Watching guys do primitive/outdoor shit like this makes me hot for a caveman bonk.
Cooking, baking and other kitchen skills are valuable. Knowing how to prepare your own food allows you to buy bulk ingredients like potatoes and carrots, turning them into delicious meals. However, pre-packaged items often cost more. Instead, choose ingredients you can select individually, weigh them, and then purchase the whole bag.
Food like this is cheaper, comes with a hobby and tastes great.
I second baking. Preppy Kitchen is a valuable site/yt channel to get all your recipe from, and his recipe is good too. I use his choc chip cookie, brownie, and lemon pound cake recipe and my friends and families approved.
Does the dick get in the way of regular crafting?
I have in fact lived through a few near-castration experiences with the crank of my vice grip.
Well, it gives you an extra crochet sometimes an extra hammer or even a great stick for your car
I’m ways you’d find difficult to believe 😮💨
Painting
You can go a long way with a cheap set of brushes and a kids watercolor or acrylic set
Sorry, I have it on good authority that painting is not manly.
Bread making is great. It’s cheap, easy, and you get bread whenever you want it. It’s also a skill to develop to make better loaves. It’s good to know in case of emergencies or food shortages. It costs less and is healthier than the junk at the store. It’s also incredibly manly to be able to provide for yourself and others with your own two hands. Make bread.
I also second (third?) this! And the possible variations are also fun to explore! Recently, I’m hooked on scones. 🤤
I second this. Just started and I love it so much. It is so easy to learn how to make a basic loaf of bread yet so rewarding. And even if you fail, you still get bread, just a bit stiff or full of holes, but it will taste like bread. At the same time it’s a craft you can continue developping for a good while if you get hooked, because making the perfect loaf takes practice.
And you can give it away. Most people love bread!
Stickers and candles are indeed great crafts for men. But if you don’t actually like stickers or candles, and don’t know anyone who you would want to press them upon, they might not be the right crafts for you.
Knitting is a popular craft that is good for men. Men can always use some nice knitwear.
You can also look at sewing or crochet, or cross-stitch.
Why does the craft need to be gendered? Will your penis fall off if you take up baking or sewing? I do both and it’s still firmly attatched.
Cross stitch has an incredibly low barrier for entry, you can get all-in-one kits for like $2-3 at your local craft store. There’s also knitting/crochet: it’s worth trying both, many people can’t get one or the other to click.
If you have around 10 yards indoors or outdoors, a cheap air pistol or rifle can get you started on target shooting, though shooting sports can easily spiral into one of those comically expensive hobbies.
It may be worth looking at what your options are for local maker spaces. They’ll often have the fixed assets for lots of different hobbies.
There really isn’t much in the way of “more suited for men” hobbies, outside of maybe penis hammering.
Don’t forget penis whittling
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Circumcision with extra steps?
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penis hammering
Visions of Pain Olympics…
There really isn’t much in the way of “more suited for men” hobbies, outside of maybe penis hammering.
Maybe he could get into those silly elaborate beard competitions
Carving. You just need a knife and something to carve. I’ve tried wood, chalk, sandstone (very soft rock I picked up on a beach), soap, florists sponge, etc.
Edit: actually you don’t even need the knife. The chalk and sandstone I used stationery to work the medium.
I don’t understand the gendered aspect of this question. Surely hobbies are not gendered.
Girls and grandmas knit wool socks whereas real men forge knives… or at least that’s the stereotype. Same thing is happening with computers too. Building a PC is seen as a guy hobby while riding horses is seen as hobby for school girls.
Why though? That sort of division is just archaic. People should be allowed to have whatever hobbies they find interesting. Who cares how that activity was viewed a 100 years ago. You don’t need to worry about obsolete perceptions in the 2020s.
They shouldn’t be, but we are still transitioning out of segregated hobbies. And there are issues when say a knitting group of 60 year old women may be uncomfortable with a man joining. Or vice versa for a stereotypical male hobby.
You totally underestimate knitters. Knitters are bad ass. People 60 today are GenX! I know it was just an example and refuting it doesn’t prove anything, but my point is that’s an increasingly archaic view and I don’t think we need to mollycoddle people with such views any longer.
Why would women be uncomfortable about a dude joining if it’s not a gendered club? I haven’t met knitters of any age who wouldn’t be thrilled to talk wool weights and patterns with anyone. I’m a woman who’s been in and taught a ton of art and craft groups, they’ve all been mixed in age and genders. Art is for everyone.
I agree, but we still have a generation that avoid men as they are a threat to vulnerable women, or seen as they don’t belong.
I’m not if that era. My girls all know how to change tires, brakes and oil on their cars. Two of them capable of doing major auto work. And my son likes nail polish.
But my moms era is still highly focused on gendered activities.
Hobbies are certainly gender-biased. I haven’t met a female iron scrap sculptor in my life, ever. Conversely, I have known several (five IIRC) female painters, but only one male painter.
Disclaimer: I mean real life meeting, social networks or YouTube don’t count. YMMV.
I’m a man. I paint, crochet, sew, have done macrame, cook, bake and garden. I also play multiple musical instruments, work on engines and other mechanical shit, fish, shoot guns, weld, keep bonsai, and so fucking many other things. Hobbies and crafts are just skills learned and practiced for the enjoyment of doing it. I know men and women who do all of the things I do and some things I don’t. Hell, I know a chick blacksmith, and she makes some pretty badass knives, man. Most folks do not advertise their hobbies, they just do them.
There are 8 billion human beings at the moment. That you think your personal sample through individual interactions is remotely representative is a little egotistical at best.
I dont think anybody is arguing that only men can do X or only women can do Y, but more that X may be a more male dominated hobby or Y is more female dominated and these are the people you’re going to encounter if you join local groups, or what have you. It may be awkward depending on your personality.
Take gender out of it and replace it with something like religion and it might make more sense: “if you pick up this hobby you might encounter a lot of fundamentalist Christians” which could be awkward if you’re an athiest for example.
Like I’m into cars/trucks but a lot of people in the automotive hobby can be real douchebags. That doesn’t stop me from enjoying the hobby but it keeps me away from a lot of meetups with strangers.
Warhammer miniatures.
cheap
warhammer
Yeah, no
3D printing and modelling, since the material is dirt cheap and the cost of the printer only really depends on scale. If you have the will you can make one from an e-waste DVD drive.
If you have the will you can make one from an e-waste DVD drive.
Picture from 2002. This was a 2D plotter made from the motors of a CD-ROM drive. The open wires connected to a copper coil that smashed a pencil up and down. A hard-disk magnet was glued to the pencil. 3D printing wasn’t a thing back then, otherwise I probably would have started a fire with an improvised heater on top of this.
Knitting is great for everyone. You can make clothing and accessories for you and for gifting. Knit and then felt wool bowls and other household articles. It’s inexpensive to get started with basic yarn to see if you like the activity.
Totally. Knitting is one of the most practical skills someone can have. It’s math, textiles, logistics, engineering, and cozy. You can also take control of what materials go into your clothing, too, like by sticking to organics and staying away from synthetics that break down faster and shed microplastics.
Hell, I got into fibre arts and went so deep I started visiting farms to buy my own fleeces, paying small hobby shepherds directly.
Ravelry.com (I’m not a shill, it’s just a great site) is good for searching patterns, organizing favorites, and it has a knitting calculator for conversions.
You don’t even have to knit a bowl to felt it, you can just felt wool roving over a flat circle form, cut it off, blow up a balloon inside and let it dry.
There is a recent-ish reprint of “The Manly Art of Knitting.” I imagine there are still copies out there. I’ve heard good things about the book and would take a look if I ever crossed pathed with it, despite no personal interest in cultivating manliness.
cultivating manliness.
Behold! My manliness crop grows abundantly, the gods shine their pleasure unto my oak bookshelves, moustache comb, and tobacco pipe.
How about woodworking? All you need is a handful of hand tools, a piece of wood, and a bit of creativity. You could even just start to carve a little gnome from a piece of broom stick with your pocket knife.
I feel like wood working is one of those cheap in theory hobbies where basically no one can resist and stay with the cheapest kit.
A tool here or there and suddenly you’ve got a $5000 chest with an equal worth of tools in it.
If you are willing to settle for cheaper brands then $2,000 can get you a drop saw, table saw, various battery tools, chisels, hammer, etc.
You can upgrade the tools you get the most use of later.
The wood, glue, varnish etc scale with size of project.
You need the space of course.
Take your time and make something beautiful and unique.
It is possible to keep the kit fairly cheap if you pick up stuff at garage sales for the most part and only get the basics for hand and electric tools. At that point the wood is the expensive part.
But yeah, it is easy to blow a lot of money on stuff you don’t need if you are just doing it as a hobby and not selling stuff.
Every woodworker I’ve seen has a gigantic shop with a bunch of purpose built tools totaling between $1000 to $100k. Sure you can start out with hand tools but theyre like a gateway drug and before you know it you’re looking for black Friday deals on a compound miter saw, planar, or plunge router.
Last year I only needed a good miter saw. Now I know I’ll only be happy with a 5 axis CNC machine.
5 axis? cheaping out I see, not even getting a tool changer
Nek minute you have a large shed, wood lathes, thicknessers, band saws and on and on
Does home brewing count as a craft?
You can get started with a soup pot and a 5 gallon bucket, but if you enjoy it, there’s no shortage of upgrades to spend money on!
Pretty sure craft beers count as a craft…
Plus, you get to call yourself an artisanal craftsperson, which sounds much nicer than “keg stand Steve”.
