dgchessman2

You guys have some awesome Moderation on these forums.

I think I came to exactly the right place! I've got plenty of nice, friendly, helpful people that I'm already talking with.

It just takes a special kind of somebody to not have an angry knee-jerk reaction to what I posted, and start cursing, flaming, and generally being an ass.


It was actually a pretty calm and reasonable offer for a collaboration. If that holds no interest for you, I completely understand.


But don't mistaken your anger or reactions with a lack of interest in the general forum. Your friends and fellow community board members may apologize for you being an ass....

...but you're still being an ass.

*laughs* I'm happy to release plans.... but the setup costs and equipment would but them far, far outside of most people's reach.

If you happen to have a machinist or machine shop at your disposal (plus a bit of free time!) it shouldn't cost much at all to replicate.


At the end of the day here's the sad, sad truth of it all: I'm sorry for whoever those people are that you are used to dealing with. I'm sure they're horrible people. I wish they were dead too. Maybe if they WERE, people would ask questions first instead of assuming that I'm a raging asshole. I didn't say anything in that first post that I didn't mean, though I'm additionally sorry that my choice of verbage seems to have triggered some sort of latent Nerf supremacist tendencies on here.

I have a project that will probably expand into a much larger project.

If I was an asshole.... I wouldn't MENTION that I was selling the product. I'd just take people's ideas and run.

However, I don't do small projects. I would need to work WITH somebody fairly closely for several weeks to get all the kinds worked out, and each additional design based on the same platform would need another bit of correspondence. I don't know about you, but MY time is valuable. If I'm going to take somebody ELSE'S time, I like to at least offer them a little SOMETHING for making my life a little easier.

I wish it worked in reverse, but sadly, it doesn't; offer something to those people out there who delight in making a simply project idea MORE difficult to complete. Hell, I even said "No Combustion!" in the very very first post. *sighs*

Next time I'll make sure to mention wanting to REPLICATE a BLASTER into a fancy BODY so that it looks like something DIFFERENT..... and avoid trigger-words like weapon, design, build, responsibility, pay, respect, kindness, etc.

"I'm still concerned on the fact that you want some amazing nerfer to build you a replica "weapon" and put time and labor in it and then give you the plans. You then are gonna go run off and sell them to people quite possibly as your "own" idea and maybe send the nerf some money just to laugh in their face."

I'm not asking anyone to design anything for me. I was asking for assistance, and offering to work WITH somebody that had more knowledge than I do about the subject. I even went out of my way to point out that I would be doing the lion's share of the work. The offer of money was an added bonus, a sort of thank you. Like getting the percentage of every book that gets sold.

Most of what I'm struggling with is simply materials. Everything I've done up to this point was lathed, CnC'd, or otherwise custom-made. Not assembled from parts.... hand-crafted. I need to tone that sort of thinking down a bit and go instead with more proven methods that others have tested and tried.

Not reinventing the wheel, yes?

As for combustion..... Just no *laughs* Not safe, not a good idea.

The idea is for it to LOOK and MOVE like a real black-powder weapon.... not for it to wound people like a black-powder weapon *laughs*

Honestly... that would probably be easier AND cheaper... to just powder lead shot at people.

For example: My design from last year was a wooden derringer-handle that was routed to snap around the outside of the internal parts. Outside was lacquered.. and we have even talked about engraving designs into the wood itself.

I still love this idea, but I need to work out the internals better. The handle is dependent on the insides....

Gotta focus on the insides first. The shiny stuff is the easy/fun part.

You know.... it DOES seem a bit backwards to have somebody offer to contribute, flame them without bothering to ask questions, then concede that 'Hey... MAYBE you contribute... if you ask really nicely, and I'm feeling magnanimous'.

As I would say to any Trolls, Elitists, Snobs, and other exclusive-wannabes.... please just move right along instead of throwing your two cents into a self-admitted Odd Project. If you have no interest, I completely understand and respect that; all I ask is for that same respect in return.


As the public forum section seems to be all discouragement and nay-saying.... I'm going to simply bow out of this part of the conversation.

For any additionally interested people, please feel free to contact me directly, either by the provided email, or as a message on here.


I don't wish to take up anyone's valuable internet time with my 'obviously useless' ideas.


And.... assuming I don't get this same sort of heavy-handed, nonsensical reception when the project is done, I'd be happy to post a how-to on the crossover. This project is really just about finding a way to crossover two already existing methods of building.

It's just details and proportions.


It saddens me to see it ever got made into anything more complicated than that.