[Jewelry making - Article 00243] - Re: [Orchid] Keeping trade secrets

[LEESSILVER]

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    I always share all that I know with anyone who asks. In fact I
    probably even share my knowledge with those who are not interested. 

    I am know as "grandpa field trip" by my kids and grandkids. When I
    am with them everything around us leads to a field trip. How ants dig
    their holes, seeds pods get scattered why the moon has giant doodle
    bugs that make their craters on the surface. A field trip for those
    of you who do not know what a doodle bug is. They are nasty little
    bugs with crab like claws who dig holes in sand. The hole is a cone
    shape. When an ant falls in the hole he cannot get out. All his
    crawling just causes him to slide down to where the doodle bug is
    waiting. The doodle bug grabs him and disappears under the sand. 

    Back to the subject. I have been burned several times. I taught a
    person to do copper tooled pictures and even loaned him my tools.
    The next thing I know he was visiting my customers offering to
    undercut me. He did not last long. 

    There is the story of a netsuke carver (small tobacco pouch ivory
    fobs) who first developed a way to round the inside of the holes used
    to tie the pouch cords to the netsuke. In the past the carvers would
    drill two holes into the ivory at angles. The intersection where the
    holes met was always a sharp edge. The carver who discovered a way to
    round off the sharp edge was on his death bed before he told his son
    how to do it. 

    What really irritates me is the person who asks all sorts of how to
    questions which I answer then when I ask him a how to question he
    changes the subject and fades away 

    Anyone for a field trip? 

    By the way the Orchid dinner was a great success. Go Orchid. 

Lee Epperson

 
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