First I can think of is stone cutters. Some of the old bridge abutments around here are just admirable. I never really seen one in disrepair, sometimes most of the bank is gone but they still stand. Nowadays they just rip rap limestone chunks around the prefab walls. Name some others you can think of.

Guys that understand and can fix knotters on small square hay balers. That is some voodoo stuff practiced by witch doctors. May not be 5 good ones left alive in the entire world.

LOL that made me think of those old sock knitters. Can you imagine making socks from scratch? Those machines are very intricate. I cant imagine socks being not cost effective enough to make your own.

Trapping

Net making comes to mind.

tool and die making

Gas welding

gill net making and repair

Yep, I sure dont know of any basket makers left either.

Driving Stick.

hound hunting without gadgets

I've made a few.

Hammering a nail.

Farming.

Gardening.

Shade tree mechanicing

Pouring a Babbit bearing. (I can and have.)
Shoe repair

Stayin' married til you're dead.

Bee lining to find a bee tree, then cutting it and collecting the honey. I went with my Grandfather and uncle back in the early 1960’s.

Good one. I haven't bought a nail in years. All screws for me. Less work than something nailed if you want to take it apart.

Learned how to do that from my grandfather on his old Ford baler.

Cursive writing

Starting a fire without matches etc..

putting up fur, tanning

Sewing, knitting, crochet etc..

Writing letters

my wife was a big knitter , there is actually a lot of knitting happening here in WIS at least.

my youngest knits , crochets and sews , a friends daughters all knit.
places offering classes , yarn shops , sheep and wool festival is huge and takes place in September here in southern WI

she followed a lot of hand dye wool artists and there are a fair number of knitting shows around the country.

Gas welding

Cursive writing

Stick shift

Pouring lead joints/cast iron

Hoeing beans

By the looks of my neighborhood- kids cutting grass

Morse code is a dying art
People out there that don't know how to change a tire.

caning chairs, making pack baskets w/ash strips, horse logging, cider mills.

I never got into that mess. My older brother about 15 at time, had a guy show him how to take one down. They replaced the knives some parts put it back together. Even though he never did that again that I know of. He was the kinda that probably could have tackled Even later years. My younger brother is also very good at that kind stuff.

Some thing I haven't seen done for years except by maybe Amish. Hand file and sharpen a good finish hand saw. Way back in day when I used pound nails for a living. Was old German cabinet build lived down road from.my parents. Charged me like $2 to file sharpen my hand saws. You didn't whipe the side those blades off with your bare hand. Not less wanted bleed all over you work.

Mac

Sign painting.

Hand mucking....especially with a #3 square point shovel.

This thread makes me feel old. Fixed many knotters on hay balers but never did the net stuff. Live in the desert.

Cheap Gas and High dollar fur.

Manners
And common sense are both a dying art. Young people have neither

Dowsing for water.

Ain't that the truth.
Have an old coworker who used to do it frequently. Don't see that often. I hear both of my grandfathers were able to.

real conversations

My husband can fix those. He does as we have a JD and an IH. Both are older models.
He started doing because some neighbors wanted them for their horses. He agreed but they had to haul their own bales out.

Using a scythe, I did in my younger days. Did OK, but never mastered it.

Tailoring and sewing clothes. I buy most of my clothes at the thrift store so I sew some of my own and if I find something nice I take it to the tailor.

Maybe skills vs arts:

Wielding an axe to fell and limb a tree and to split wood.

Sharpen a knife on a whetstone.

Shooting moving game. (Now considered poor sportsmanship but folks used to develop this skill).

Or peen sharpening them.

Crosscut use and maintenance
Archery
Travel in the wild without fuel

You got that right!

Is common sense an art?

The art of ninjitsu…..

Getting a group of people to show up at the same place and time without 15 phone calls and 20+ texts.

How to read grass or rotationally graze a pasture or pastures to last the whole growing season

Bryce

Masculinity

The fine art of Straight Razah Shaving.

Using a map and compass.

Zim

Seppuku…..

Trapping, shoeing horses.

Common sense

Art Linkletter?

My profession laying tile i feel is a lost art or maybe most ppl have enough sense to not work that hard lol. The ones mentioning square bale knotter gurus and water dowsing are spot on. Saw dad and grandad get some bent metal clothes hangers many times looking a line

Demonstrate

Obviously a retard's attempt at spelling sudoku....

Don’t know nuffin about Japanese honor

You don’t wanna see a demonstration of that.

Take that glue chugger…..zzzzz

Seppuku (切腹, lit. 'cutting [the] belly'), also called harakiri (腹切り, lit. 'abdomen/belly cutting', a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritualistic suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honor, but was also practiced by other Japanese people during the Shōwa era[1][2] (particularly officers near the end of World War II) to restore honor for themselves or for their families.

Writing a letter. Sharpening a hoe with a flatbastard file. Hoeing strawberries. Clean skinning and putting up beaver. Making a fire in the wood stove with kindling. Making meals from scratch and then sitting down with your family to eat them.

Making moonshine.

working for a living.

leather working and boot repair.

Fishing without electronics.


Mac

This is really not that hard. Some people call it voodoo or fake.

I can do it and can guarantee I can find your waterline to your house and you don't have to show me anything. Dowsing works and I don't know why.

X2

If it's a New Hollen I can fix the knotters. Somehow word got out that I could fix them so smooth You didn't even have to slow down when you had a knot coming up the baler twine. Did the knives also. Our Ford tractor dealership wasn't to happy with me. My grandpa tough me how to sharpen both a ripping and a crosscut hand saw. When was the last time anyone had to stration a nail out? Frying a gutted scaled fish then getting all the meat off of the bones and ending up with a complete skelton.

Wouldn't let my daughter leave the driveway til she changed the spare by herself. People look at you like you are some kind of master mechanic when you can change a tire.

Gardening has turned into a science. Modern tech, if you will use it, will make you a master gardener. First step is a soil sample.

Absolutely! I gave instructions to my sprinkler crew last summer. Must have looked funny to all the neighbors watching me lead the crew around the yard like momma duck and her ducklings! LOL

Hopefully I didn’t break the thread. Not my intent.

Making Sourdough Bread

Many WOMAN make sourdough and shave

White roofers

Using Lead to do body work.

Woman that didn’t reck their body with inc.

When is the last time you sharpened your garden spade?
People used to do it all the time, people used to know how to sharpen everything.
It's amazing how much better a sharp shovel works.

Spelling

Repairing things instead of replacing them.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

Brewing good perk coffee.

Many things pre-1950's

Using turn signals.

Drafting

men and women getting married like it is supposed to be. that has flown out the window folks.

Working ground without chemicals. Plow, chisel plow, and disc. They should make spraying illegal before all the old timers die off.

Catfish noodling.

Fellerbunching peccarpole spruce by hand is a dying art…kind of got obsolete like Paul Bunyan during the industrial revolution…

Raising pigs, butchering them yourselves then curing and smoking the meat.
Also, raising a steer for your yearly supply of beef then processing it yourself.

learning how to write without AI.

One I forgot to add previously, throwing rice after the wedding on the bride & groom.

The ability to learn from books

LOL, That's not a dying art, it's the art of dying! Can only be done correctly once.

Alive and well in Oklahoma. While I don’t go much anymore, still have a lot of friends who do.

Chivalry

hard manual labor.

Precision measuring, whether it be woodworking, metal work, lathe work, machine set-up, etc. I've always taken pride in that.

Using any kind of phone to converse with the person to which you have called.

peaking Say ig Pay atin Lay.

Beaver Calling!

Diggin snakeroot

Spit shining boots or shoes.

Hand engraving (firearms, serving platters, etc)
Hand carving, checkering (gunstocks come to mind)
Gunsmithing in general

being able to debate some one.

Children who mail thank you notes to their grandparents after receiving gifts.

Not necessarily an art but women with a bush. Seems like when I was in high school all the sudden the bush became unattractive/unsanitary to everyone boys and girls alike. I was always old school in my thinking so it never bothered me a bit but it did surprise me how many people I heard as a teen saying they would not ummm play piano with someone with hair down there.

Wood working with hand tools. Sharpening plane blades, chisels, hand saws, and drill bits. Watch repair, not battery charging.

I'll say it. . . The Art of War.

casting your own lead bullets

There will soon be no such thing as old farmer's, most of the farmer's now by the time they are in there 50s can barely print there name from shaking so bad, but they'll still mix 10 gallons of spray to kill a couple weeds around there bin. At least that's the way it is here.

The Art of Shaving

Wiping your butt with weeds. Seems everyone has to have tp nowadays. Modern folks are so soft I don’t know why they don’t just use their hand.

Amen

Old school brush and roller painters who could, who could make wood stains on the job.

My Uncle Arthur is 82 and has cancer.....

haha

I used a scythe to cut weeds under miles of a neighbor’s electric fence when I was in high school. Carried a long whet stone tapered on both ends to refresh the edge every little while. Never heard of peen sharpening. I assume from the name it involves some light hammer work and making a scalloped or somewhat serrated edge?

I’d have to disagree with that one. If you check out Singleactions.com or Castboolits.com you’ll find casting bullets is alive and thriving. I’ve been casting for decades and can say the activity has improved greatly over the last three decades. Great mold makers and far more resources available than when I started.

…. I ain’t too good for a little dark humor lol

Flintknapping, brain tanning.

Now that's funny. Son just had a re-roof done Monday due to hail storm.
All Mexican crew showed up at 6 am and were done by 5pm. Son was home and said they had a Mexican station tuned in on the radio cranked up that blasted all day.

See Pipeliner's post above.

My stepson works at a care facility. Day before yesterday an old boy rang for help and seemed almost hysterical. The old dude has Parkinson's and at 5:00 am decided he needed to shave his balls....I think I need not say more.

Am I going to heck for thinking this is hilarious?

It is funny! Its just something that I have noticed in my time.

How to make quality oxy-fuel welds. I said “quality” not seagull chit & globs!

Leftlane, Vinke....I hand measure every roof and install. As Savell would say, no Mescins here.







Even get the boy working now and then.