Post #144940 by Island Savage on Sun, Mar 6, 2005 10:06 AM

A couple points:

It's my hope to perhaps catelog all of it, museum style, into a large, complete database that can be searched by location, color, manufacturer, date, type, etc. Sharing information is the point of this. Sharing among the biggest collectors.

Bottom line: We are creating an extensive database of tiki ephemera. All that knowledge will be in one place, put together by those with the biggest collections and likely the most knowledge. From that everyone's knowledge will grow.

What do you think Mike has done with tikiroom.net? Kohalacharms uses that as his research database, yet has he added anything to it? The database is already in place.(I think some people do have "sour grapes" when it comes to this person because he uses people for his own gain... while not sharing in an open forum.

Sharing information is the point of this. Sharing among the biggest collectors.

Sharing? yes, amoungst yourselves.

From that everyone's knowledge will grow

don't you mean everyone in the exclusive group?

But they all have a level of dedication to collecting that few of us have. And, almost none of them post on TC.

Face it, they are not more dedicated, they have more money.Hello, I'm sure if most of us had lots of cash we'd be buying more too.

[ Edited by: freaky*tiki on 2005-03-06 17:07 ]