Post #803895 by GROG on Sun, Jun 5, 2022 11:15 AM

Go right ahead Will. Copy whatever you want. Seems like everybody is doing it. I saw Swizzle copied my idea of a "Mug Shot". I guess he was tired of waiting for me to send him one of mine, so he did a Moai mug with a topknot as a shot glass like I did. And then I saw Wendy Cevola did a direct copy of my "Cutesy Bob" tiki mug for somebody. I've seen on the internet a few times where some people have made their own "Going Primitive Mugs" as well. I don't do much Tiki art, but apparently people like it well enough to copy it. But, not just Tiki art. I saw some art that I had placed up on Deviantart that somebody made prints of and sold on eBay. They just Photoshopped my name off and animation peg holes that were at the bottom of the art. Nobody has done anything with my Bamboo Ben art though. Ben just gets no respect!! I had talked to SQUID about his art being copied, and he's had SOooo many designs/ideas copied and massed produced that OTHER people make money off of that he's thinking that he should change careers.

I checked out your stuff Will. Looking sharp!!! I saw one photo of the Lono pepper mill in production and it had the hardware for making the pepper mill and a Phillips head screw driver. I can't believe you carved that whole thing with a Phillip's head screw driver!!! That takes a LOT of patience.