Designing
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:38 pm
Hello all. I'm new to this board and I'll apologize in advance if I'm broaching a subject already covered.
I've been in and out of pipe making a couple of times over the years and I'm jumping back in to hopefully stay. I need the "therapy".
Here's my subject: from a technical standpoint I can make just about anything that I've seen/held in my hands. What I lack is the creative design spark that so many pipe makers have. I get stumped and frustrated while staring at a block of briar. Some say the pipe just jumps out at them. Mine just fly on by so it seems.
Now, as I said, I can copy just about anything someone else has created. In this business what is considered ok and what is considered not so ok when it comes to plagiarizing another person's work? I realize no two pipes are the same and I enjoy "improving" or "modifying" something someone else has done.
How would I feel if someone copied something I had done? I really wouldn't mind as I would feel good that someone else felt that something I had done was worth duplicating.
I would just hate to get an email from another pipe maker calling me a sorry SOB for ripping off one of his or her designs.
I look forward to hearing other opinions.
Regards,
Chas.
I've been in and out of pipe making a couple of times over the years and I'm jumping back in to hopefully stay. I need the "therapy".
Here's my subject: from a technical standpoint I can make just about anything that I've seen/held in my hands. What I lack is the creative design spark that so many pipe makers have. I get stumped and frustrated while staring at a block of briar. Some say the pipe just jumps out at them. Mine just fly on by so it seems.
Now, as I said, I can copy just about anything someone else has created. In this business what is considered ok and what is considered not so ok when it comes to plagiarizing another person's work? I realize no two pipes are the same and I enjoy "improving" or "modifying" something someone else has done.
How would I feel if someone copied something I had done? I really wouldn't mind as I would feel good that someone else felt that something I had done was worth duplicating.
I would just hate to get an email from another pipe maker calling me a sorry SOB for ripping off one of his or her designs.
I look forward to hearing other opinions.
Regards,
Chas.