Hello, all.
I’m a newbie, but I don’t like lurking, so I’d just like to share my own tale of joy and credit cards and get it out of the way.
In October of 2004, I returned from an unsuccessful and tiring work experience in Ho Chi Minh City. After repatriating myself, I took a stern look in the mirror and said, “Masters Degree be damned, I cannot teach another day.”
Having zero desire to work for anyone else for a spell, I took it upon myself to try to turn a ten year old hobby into fun and rewarding cash.
Leatherwork.
As some of you may know, leather is a very curious substance, and can be used for great social ills. Chaps, whips, dreamweavers, mocassins, fringe, and the like. This didn’t gel well with my concepts of the OTHER uses of leather, Lexus interiors, Couch, Versace, and so forth, so I plodded along, hoping to find a product that had some sort of mass appeal, but which wasn’t feminine (this is no slight, ladies – it is a matter my lack of ability) or biker related.
One day, in a huff, I started on a chess board. I spent a goodly while cutting and tooling and dying the leather, and it was a beautiful thing. But as I sat there, looking blankly at it, it occured to me that it must be resting on a piece of wood.
Indeed, What about pieces?
To make a long story shorter, three months and $9760 later I’m about to finish my first chess board.
Anyone wanna buy a chess set?
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Quick Followup:
The set includes turned cocobolo and bird's eye maple pieces.
Asking price for board and pieces: $9750.
:)
I'm only half kidding.
Stop with the kidding. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will!
M
New Zealand | New Thinking
Edited 1/14/2005 5:27 am ET by kiwimac
You can't post stuff like that without pictures. It's against the rules.
I saw this in a museum in London a couple months ago:
Notice I said "about to finish."
Pictures by Tuesday.
OR DEATH.
<grumble>
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