Now, about sharing stuffs on the web, taking and giving…
Being a shaper is a full time job.
The time you have to go chatting on the web is short.
Writing again and again the same things is somehow boring.
Once you’ve done it once, do you really need to do it again and again ?
The search engine is there, just use it.
I am myself a member of shaperoom.net, the french shaping forum.
I used to spend a lot of time taking and giving.
The fact is I don’t go and post as often as I did.
First because I don’t have the time to, second because I’ve been writing many times the same words and it’s not that fun at last.
On a web site, people come and go, that’s the way it goes.
If you stay there for a while, then you’ll see how often the same questions come back… and how few the people use the search engine.
As far as I’m concerned, I only saw pictures from Mani Carro / Mandala Custom Shapes boards.
To me, they looked really great and were a source for my stoke and inspiration.
So were the Christenson’s and Pavel’s.
So were the Moonlight glassed.
And do you know what ?
I’ve been able to see and touch those boards.
More than this, I’ve had the time to talk for more than an hour with Mani, about my shapes, about his shapes, about a lot of stuffs also.
He did not seem to be an ass hole to me… Far from that. I can even say I would have loved to spend more time than we did.
I also had the luck to talk to Pavel, shortly but soooo nicely.
I had time enough to learn tons and tons about fins talking with Jim and Marlin Bacon.
The same Marlin Bacon took more than half an hour talking with me about my boards and about how I could improve the qualities of my shapes.
I can really say that all those guys were top class humility regarding the level they riched as craftmasters.
So, the internet getting pissed stuff is nothing compared to the stoke we all shared.
I say.
