Geodude

The latest posts to "Most you ever paid" thread got me thinking about a question on poor material. What happens when someone brings a poor material to a workshop? Does the instructor tell him/her not to bother, or try to do something with it?

Of the workshops and demonstrations I've attended, there's never been a time when the instructor/demonstrator didn't try to do something with the material, no matter what it looked like. Has anyone heard an instructor throw their hands up and say there's nothing that can be done with this piece of sh...tock? If you're an instructor (Walter, Ron, etc.), do you ever tell someone this? (I'm sure there's been times when you wanted to, eh?)

I have, however, been told by a friendly bonsai nursery owner to go find something better when I tried to buy a poor stock.

Thanks.

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Paul

"Life will be sweet like a rhapsody
When I paint my materpiece"

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