[Woodcarver] new projects

[dick carter]

>From: Sylda <sylda at kansas.net>

>I hadn¹t thought of carving the same thing as someone else ³copying².  No
>two pieces are ever just alike even when we intend them to be.  If your
>working in a class and your all carving the same thing and the instructor
>has ³look sees² is that copying?  I like to take pictures of carved things
>and try to make woodburning patterns of them and see how much depth I can
>put in them without a knife.  Am I crazy or copying?


Copying... Hmmmm. When a woodcarver creates a realistic reproduction of a 
fish,
or bird, or animal, then I guess they are guilty of copying. So I that means 
that, by
some standards, they are not real craftsmen.

This doesn't compute.

Dick Carter
>From the Manadnock area of NH
rhc511 at hotmail.com
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