Looking for woo everywhere....

[kittynh]

I'm learning to do chain mail jewelry.

I'm not too bad, but it's expensive to practice with silver. So, instead of going broke, I bought a bunch of copper rings to work with. the copper doesn't look too badly, and instead of just throwing them out, I've been giving the stuff away.

I made some nice copper earrings. I get, "oh do these help headaches?"

No.

I found you can't give someone a copper bracelet without them THANKING you and tellling you all the good things they have heard about copper bracelets (my mother in law wears one all the time for her arthritis).

Look people, it's just a metal. I can't afford sterling silver - so I"m saving that stuff for Xmas gifts and stuff when I get a little more skilled.

I think I"m just going to have to chuck the stuff when I am done as people just LOOK for woo everywhere.

Why can't, "well it's pretty" be enough?

The weird part is people KNOW I'm a skeptic. So why would they think I've finally accepted something as silly as copper having curative properties?

I do think I could charge people for copper earrings that cure headaches.

And I'll bet people would swear they worked.

[Beleth]

You have become better at Jewelrycraft! (35)

I think it's probably because copper is so cheap that they are trying to justify your gift to them some other way. I mean, why would you give copper to someone you liked, when silver is so much more of a token of your affection? It's either because you're cheap, or because it's mystically good for them.

My advice is to give it to the children you know. 9- and 10-year-old girls love stuff like that. They'll like it more than the grownups will, they won't assign some woo to it, and they won't care about how much it costs.

[supercorgi]

You have become better at Jewelrycraft! (35)

I think it's probably because copper is so cheap that they are trying to justify your gift to them some other way. I mean, why would you give copper to someone you liked, when silver is so much more of a token of your affection? It's either because you're cheap, or because it's mystically good for them.

I like copper! It's such a pretty color. And someone should appreciate that you gave them something handmade. I've been trying my hand a Viking wire knitting to make chains and I do like working with the copper wire.

You should see some of the chain mail stuff they sell at SCA events (Society for Creative Anachronism) beside the armor (which was the only legimate use in the Middle Ages) they make everything out of chainmail - even chainmail bikinis. I'd bet Pool Boy wouldn't mind seeing you in one of those! :D

I've got a chainmail coif with little hematite stars on it. Most of the SCA chain is made of stainless steel.

As for woo copper use, I can't help it but whenever I see someone with a copper braclet my assessment of their intelligence drops drastically. My old boss used to wear one and he was an idiot.

[Kochanski]

Kitty, you should tell everyone that the pieces have special magical powers to turn people into skeptics :D

Supercorgi, I have seen people wearing chainmail halter tops at Icon (SCA has definite presence at the con) and all I can ever think is OUCH :p The jewelry is cool, the chainmail is cool, but I could not think of wearing any clothing article made of it without something under it, at the very least it has to be either really cold or really hot depending on the weather.

[NoZed Avenger]

I'm learning to do chain mail jewelry.



So you mail them the jewelry, then claim bad luck will follow them if they don't buy it and make 5 friends buy more from you?

BRILLIANT!





. . . .Oh, wait. that would be chain letter jewelry.

[kittynh]

good plan to give it to small kids.

Hey, the price of copper is way up.

And the only other metal I use is sterling silver...which adds up for some eleborate stuff. I like to practice new patterns with the copper.

Yeah, little kids. Hey, some of the people I give this stuff to wear some really peculiar stuff. This is a step up, as in not made by slave labor in some third world. They think it's cool third world culture. I picture kids in India getting pennies a day. Ever wonder why so many "liberal" cool towns have store after store filled with third world labor stuff that you know how to be pumped out as EVERY store has the same stuff....meanwhile local artisans aren't represented at all.

I don't want to ever sell anything (I sell my real art, this is a hobby). But the little girls at my school are going to be really happy.

oh what is viking finger knitting? Bring a sample to the next get togther!

[CFLarsen]

I'm learning to do chain mail jewelry.

I'm not too bad, but it's expensive to practice with silver. So, instead of going broke, I bought a bunch of copper rings to work with. the copper doesn't look too badly, and instead of just throwing them out, I've been giving the stuff away.

I made some nice copper earrings. I get, "oh do these help headaches?"

No.

I found you can't give someone a copper bracelet without them THANKING you and tellling you all the good things they have heard about copper bracelets (my mother in law wears one all the time for her arthritis).

Look people, it's just a metal. I can't afford sterling silver - so I"m saving that stuff for Xmas gifts and stuff when I get a little more skilled.

I think I"m just going to have to chuck the stuff when I am done as people just LOOK for woo everywhere.

Why can't, "well it's pretty" be enough?

The weird part is people KNOW I'm a skeptic. So why would they think I've finally accepted something as silly as copper having curative properties?

I do think I could charge people for copper earrings that cure headaches.

And I'll bet people would swear they worked.

You will die poor, but happy.

[Nyarlathotep]

The weird part is people KNOW I'm a skeptic. So why would they think I've finally accepted something as silly as copper having curative properties?


Because they don't realize just how silly it is. I have mild arthritis and I used to work in a job where I was constantly sticking my hand into a coil that gnerated a strong magnetic field. On a couple of occasions, when I mentioned my arthritis, I had co-workers who would tell me that they thought having my hands in that magnetic coil all day would be good for my arthritis. They honestly thought that "magnets are good for arthritis" was a medical fact, and not just a load of BS. The people who think you expect your copper braclets to have curative properties think the same thing about copper.

[Dogdoctor]

If they know you're a skeptic then perhaps they are pulling your leg suggesting the jewelry might have magic properties. If I saw you making jewelry I would ask you that.

[Dr Adequate]

I made some nice copper earrings. I get, "oh do these help headaches?"

No.Tell them, "No, but I can sell you something that will."

Then give them some aspirin.

[kittynh]

oh GOOD one! I'm going with that!!!