Post #420818 by rbloch66 on Tue, Nov 25, 2008 10:57 AM

My directness is often taken the wrong way, and mistaken as rudeness. For that I continually find I need to apologize, as I do here. I truly meant no disrespect.

I am not by nature a social creature and communication to me is primarily for obtaining or imparting information. Again, perhaps a fault that I need to work on. But the flipside is that it provides me with a single mindedness that allows me to succeed at whatever I choose to undertake. The bad side is that it pisses a lot of people off. But, we get to be imperfect.

Sadly, purchasing any relevant reading material is just not within my means right now. But being visually oriented, I have been through most of the posts in the carvers section, and I can see patterns, and similarities in their designs. Many are unique, and many are very interpretational, but there are still patterns.

So I suppose that all I can really do is to summarize from what I've seen, and hope that what I create isn't merely a copy.

Perhaps my mistake lies in trying to name the thing, and instead just go ahead and do it.