here comes the tools now

wrote in message
ups.com...
" Dennis I need to ask you again why you keep up this defensive and
adversarial attitude? Your business is in no way shape or form like
what we
are doing."

Why do you assume you and your compadres are the only readers here?
Why do you assume everyone other than me does glass the way you do?

I teach Entrepreneurial Management. At the University Masters level,
at Las Vegas GlassCraft Expo, in our studio, at Victorian GlassFest,
online at Glass Campus......and on bulletin boards to anyone wishing to
learn. I have a very, very long list of people that email me to thank
me for my internet postings. I don't care....let's repeat that....I DO
NOT CARE what you or your antagonistic friends want or like. I'm here
to teach people how to create a business enterprise making and selling
glass art. I'm even doing free public lectures at Vegas - specifically
about how to do that.

You and your buds can bitch, whine, and snivel....about Chinese
imports, about "basement bandits", or about opinions you disagree with.
I DO NOT CARE. I don't post here for you and your bitch buddies, but
for others that are sincerely interested in becoming professional glass
artisans.

If you don't like what I have to say, ignore it. It's not posted for
you.


I guess that pretty much says it all,

"At the University Masters level," accredited by whom? by Dennis, of
course,

for whom? for beginners that need to learn technique, so "all hail the
King, long live the King" need to see your name in lights? Go to
Broadway.... need to be placed on a pedestal? OK, you can be on a pedestal,
consider who put you there, and how long they will be around....

"Las Vegas GlassCraft Expo, in our studio, at Victorian GlassFest, online at
Glass Campus"
and all of these places are designed to encourage the hobbyist, which is a
good thing. The hobbyist is what keeps the retail store humming along.
That's a good thing.

Careful how you apply the words, ART and ARTISAN, wouldn't want to confuse
anyone and have them assume you are teaching them how to earn a living at
ART, your teaching them how to earn a living (I hope) crafting in glass.
There is a difference, a big difference.

And now we know for sure, "I DO NOT CARE."

" I'm here to teach people how to create a business enterprise making and
selling glass art."

First, you have to know what that is, tha's the problem, dude, that's why I
do care....
and you are amusing to have around. Kinda like a pet rabbit....

TOO MANY THREADS TO KEY ON, but...............
I have about 25 years of making lampshades, both production panel lamps and
small piece well made Tiffany style shades.
I started off when the 3rd world countries had not yet gotten into "cheap
and cheaper" labor intensive crafts.
I still can average just under ONE HOUR start to finish on an 8 panel 8
piece shade.
Used to sell them as fast as I could produce them, and it generally took
longer to get it the gallery, store or customer than it took to make it.
My usual phrase is as it relates to the Tiffany type shades: If you (the
client) cannot tell the difference between a YOGO and a LEXUS.......buy the
yugo! My TIFF Type shades start around $3,000 and go to just under $10,000.
I have a list of clients who have asked me to send photos (jpgs) of my
latest shade.
Shades rarely hang around (mainly table top ones) and I have a standing
order for a pair of 16" peacocks when I FIND THE EXACT GLASS for them. I
have endured some minor health problems (emergency quad by-pass sugary, with
a heart attack thrown in and just month ago my second full hip replacement)
and will start back to "work" in January.
If we put as much energy into work and being time and cost EFFECTIVE as is
put into sniping at each other in the group, the time would PROBABLY be
better used.

Happy Holidays and a Healthy New Year

Howard

wrote:

"Dennis, thank you for your response. I learn something new and of
great value
almost every time you post.
Donna"

Here's an example from another board of the kind of response I get for
the advice you find so offensive.


I have to agree with Donna. I learn from you. I've pretty much been
neutral in all of this but every time you post here I learn what an
arrogant ass you are.

--
Jack

bobo1148atxmissiondotcom


http://www.glassartguild.com/gallery/jack_bowman

At the University Masters level? What does that mean? Where'd you get
your degree? And just a correction...it appears that 90% of the time
when you post here you ARE trying to antagonize and berate fellow
posters.

andy

wrote:

I teach Entrepreneurial Management. At the University Masters level,
at Las Vegas GlassCraft Expo, in our studio, at Victorian GlassFest,
online at Glass Campus......and on bulletin boards to anyone wishing to
learn. I have a very, very long list of people that email me to thank
me for my internet postings. I don't care....let's repeat that....I DO
NOT CARE what you or your antagonistic friends want or like. I'm here
to teach people how to create a business enterprise making and selling
glass art. I'm even doing free public lectures at Vegas - specifically
about how to do that.

You and your buds can bitch, whine, and snivel....about Chinese
imports, about "basement bandits", or about opinions you disagree with.
I DO NOT CARE. I don't post here for you and your bitch buddies, but
for others that are sincerely interested in becoming professional glass
artisans.

If you don't like what I have to say, ignore it. It's not posted for
you.

wrote in message
ups.com...
" Dennis I need to ask you again why you keep up this defensive and
adversarial attitude? Your business is in no way shape or form like
what we
are doing."

Why do you assume you and your compadres are the only readers here?
Why do you assume everyone other than me does glass the way you do?

I teach Entrepreneurial Management. At the University Masters level,
at Las Vegas GlassCraft Expo, in our studio, at Victorian GlassFest,
online at Glass Campus......and on bulletin boards to anyone wishing to
learn. I have a very, very long list of people that email me to thank
me for my internet postings. I don't care....let's repeat that....I DO
NOT CARE what you or your antagonistic friends want or like. I'm here
to teach people how to create a business enterprise making and selling
glass art. I'm even doing free public lectures at Vegas - specifically
about how to do that.

You and your buds can bitch, whine, and snivel....about Chinese
imports, about "basement bandits", or about opinions you disagree with.
I DO NOT CARE. I don't post here for you and your bitch buddies, but
for others that are sincerely interested in becoming professional glass
artisans.

If you don't like what I have to say, ignore it. It's not posted for
you.



I think you need to go back and read what I wrote. IT'S YOUR ATTITUDE.
It's not what you're selling or preaching, it's how you go about it here
that drives us all to distraction. You needed to copy and paste ONE
persons, out of context complimentary reply to you from another board. Did
you tell him/her how to get a good bead? Find one from this board. This
board is occupied by lots of SG owners & pros. We don't want or need your
entreprenurial advice. We're all making a nice living thanks. You need a
flock of newbies to impress.
As to your nasty and paranoid ramblings about my "buds that bitch,
whine, and snivel", and your revealing comment "I DO NOT CARE what you or
your antagonistic friends want or like". There is not one poster here that
I have ever personally met. Don't confuse me with someone else. I rarely
get into your fights. This board is mostly populated by existing SG folks.
Dammit man can't you see what kind of responses you're getting? You have
zero supporters in this fight of yours. Come our from the corner you've
backed yourself into. Do you really need to be selling your line of BS 24/7
and 100% of the time here too? It just doesn't work with us. We're not
impressed with your flaunting of your credentials. I made the Peacock for
NBC, I lectured at the Russian Embassy. I sold the Arch Diocese well over
$100,000 in goods. We've all given lectures. We've all done most of what you
do. We're not idiots because we chose a different path. Be one of the gang,
or can't you drop the pretense long enough for a LOL?


--
"I'm not pompous and arrogant, I'm SNARKY"
JK Sinrod
Sinrod Stained Glass Studios
www.sinrodstudios.com
Coney Island Memories
www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories

wrote in message
oups.com...
.. By the time the importers
steal those ideas, we'll have made our profit and moved onto something
else. I don't need more ideas - I need more time to implement them.

It occurs to me that you'd have a lot more time to work if you weren't
spending so much time bragging and pontificating on various forums.

I bet you are gonna just get freaking rich making fused suncatchers and
casting glass for the masses.

The only reason I haven't killfiled you is because I wanna see what dumb-ass
bull**** you will spew next. You are funnier than anything on tee-vee.

Please don't resume taking your Thorazine....you are too much fun the way
you are.

"Michele Blank" wrote in message
...
i have spent the day dealing with a) a woman who thought when i said 750,
she thought i meant $7.50. b) a woman saying her neighbor had just taken a
class and could make her a front door like 'that' . c) is this glass???
dunh... d) gee, how do you do this (got an hour or two?). and e) a kid
grabbing an apprentice's music box, tearing off an angel's wing and when
presented to the father/ son their denial even tho CLOSELY observed ! You
know, if the tools are half as good and a quarter the price, i think i may
have to 'adapt' and buy, and BTW the day i sell my **** on EBAY is the day
i
have adapted AND died Brady boy! I have SEEN your stupid boats in
WAL -MART
for 12$!!!! Does that make you proud? either you let them steal your
designs, or they ripped them off, or you hired them to re-create them. How
exactly does that fit into your adapt or die crap!!! my high -end
customers
have not wavered and as for the ones that see price , not quality as the
deciding factor, well YOU can have'em ( but i think China will have you
bowing to them soon! how the heck are you gonna guarantee that crap you
are
peddling???) !. **** your stupid little catch phrase, let's see how you
handle the law suits for crappy workmanship! They don't have to deal with
guarantees in CHINA or Mexico! How's Canada stand on selling faulty goods?
m


Michele....please stop holding back. Tell us how you really feel. ;)

"Glassman" wrote in message
...
OK I've been bitching about the lamps from Korea, China, and Mexico for
the last 10 years. Then I was seeing finished panels with hundreds of
pieces
for under $99 showing up at the mall. Well now you won't believe what I
just
saw. Comfort grip style stick cutters, with the colored plastic handles.
Ready for this....... at the .99 cent store! One of those stores that you
see in your neighborhood or strip mall with all the household products,
electrical, shampoo, etc. Yes the Toyo type cutters we've seen selling for
about $30 bucks, for .99 cents each. The only drawback is that so far all
I
see are the wide heads. Can't tell if they are carbide or steel wheels,
but
I can tell you that they cut just great! Another dagger for the American
retailers.


Is this the one you are talking about?
http://www.mcgillswarehouse.com/Item...emID=110140004

They also have the pistol grip and the brass handled ones.

"howard" fishfeeder@gmail(dot)com wrote in message
...
TOO MANY THREADS TO KEY ON, but...............
I have about 25 years of making lampshades, both production panel lamps
and
small piece well made Tiffany style shades.
I started off when the 3rd world countries had not yet gotten into "cheap
and cheaper" labor intensive crafts.
I still can average just under ONE HOUR start to finish on an 8 panel 8
piece shade.

How many hours to finish a Peacock Howard?

--
"I'm not pompous and arrogant, I'm SNARKY"
JK Sinrod
Sinrod Stained Glass Studios
www.sinrodstudios.com
Coney Island Memories
www.sinrodstudios.com/coneymemories

"Javahut" wrote in message
...

wrote in message
and you are amusing to have around. Kinda like a pet rabbit....

Heh, I know a cocker spaniel that has more brains and personality than
Dennis.