Clay Kesting
10-05-2000, 12:00 AM
It's my birthday today so I reckon it's OK for me to bore you all with a story. I mean that's what us old blokes do at birthday parties isn't it?<img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>
My Year 7 classes (first year in high school, 11 or 12) are designing and making acrylic ornaments to go on a key ring. As usual I've been fighting a losing battle in guiding then towards designs which are simple to make and finish and which will look reasonable. Then I remembered that Sal had designed the Cricket to feel like a worn river pebble in the hand. So today I got the boys thinking about the stones they had skimmed over water (fortunately all of them had <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>). I even showed them my aluminium Cricket as an example. The result was the best selection of designs I have ever had from a class, I can't wait to see the finished products.
Thank you Sal and Spyderco. May you continue to produce innovative designs that will be an inspiration to us all.
Clay
The antipodean troublemaker
My Year 7 classes (first year in high school, 11 or 12) are designing and making acrylic ornaments to go on a key ring. As usual I've been fighting a losing battle in guiding then towards designs which are simple to make and finish and which will look reasonable. Then I remembered that Sal had designed the Cricket to feel like a worn river pebble in the hand. So today I got the boys thinking about the stones they had skimmed over water (fortunately all of them had <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>). I even showed them my aluminium Cricket as an example. The result was the best selection of designs I have ever had from a class, I can't wait to see the finished products.
Thank you Sal and Spyderco. May you continue to produce innovative designs that will be an inspiration to us all.
Clay
The antipodean troublemaker