Puppetplanet
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Hello fellow puppet makers!
I was wondering if I could get your oppinion on something.
As some of you may know, I sell a few of the puppets I build on ebay. I get a lot of people asking me about "how" I did a certain something for the construction of my puppets. I don't want to be rude to potential buyers, but do you give away building secrets or anything like that? I just figure that it has taken years for me to figure out how to do some things and get my method just right.... I just feel funny about giving away my hard work.
I've got someone asking me to teach them how I built the mechanisim to hold the rods inside my puppets hands. I don't quite know what to say and wondered how other puppet builders handle those kind of questions.
I know that I have posted diagrams of how I constructed this exact thing here, but we are all here with the same desire to build quality puppets and you guys are more like kindrid spirits or family to me. ...... ebay just feels different.
What is your out look on this? Am I being stingy?
-Michele
I was wondering if I could get your oppinion on something.
As some of you may know, I sell a few of the puppets I build on ebay. I get a lot of people asking me about "how" I did a certain something for the construction of my puppets. I don't want to be rude to potential buyers, but do you give away building secrets or anything like that? I just figure that it has taken years for me to figure out how to do some things and get my method just right.... I just feel funny about giving away my hard work.
I've got someone asking me to teach them how I built the mechanisim to hold the rods inside my puppets hands. I don't quite know what to say and wondered how other puppet builders handle those kind of questions.
I know that I have posted diagrams of how I constructed this exact thing here, but we are all here with the same desire to build quality puppets and you guys are more like kindrid spirits or family to me. ...... ebay just feels different.
What is your out look on this? Am I being stingy?
-Michele