One of the joys of joining a serious forum is the acces to all the old threads on every topic imaginable - and a few more!
It's a true treasure grove with both old and new ideas from a lot of experienced turners.
That said, I must admit that I was very disappointed to find a sample of
"pre-plagiarizing"! Never heard that term before?
I'll explain!
Some months ago, I made a few mockups for a sharpening jig for skews. Not being very inventive, I looked to the only part of the Sorby ProEdge system that I like and tried adapting it to my Oneway platform.
The model ended up looking like this.
A few distracting health issues since then have kept me from having a prototype made in metal.
Well, time away from the workshop is potential research time, so I dug into old sharpening threads and what do I see: A highly respected turner, mr. Lucas, not only snatched my idea-to-be, but he made it public a decade before I got around to it. BAD!
Lars
(Yet another sharpening nerd)
It's a true treasure grove with both old and new ideas from a lot of experienced turners.
That said, I must admit that I was very disappointed to find a sample of
"pre-plagiarizing"! Never heard that term before?
I'll explain!
Some months ago, I made a few mockups for a sharpening jig for skews. Not being very inventive, I looked to the only part of the Sorby ProEdge system that I like and tried adapting it to my Oneway platform.
The model ended up looking like this.
A few distracting health issues since then have kept me from having a prototype made in metal.
Well, time away from the workshop is potential research time, so I dug into old sharpening threads and what do I see: A highly respected turner, mr. Lucas, not only snatched my idea-to-be, but he made it public a decade before I got around to it. BAD!
Lars
(Yet another sharpening nerd)