The cams do work. A member of my guild is a fletcher. He used a cam I
tinkered for him and successfully made a very nice bow. I will try to get
stats and a screen shot and send it into the web page.
Rexus
Gnome Wizard <Veeshan>
At 09:35 AM 8/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "Stauss, Aaron" <Aaron.Stauss@...>
>
> I for one am relieved to see that the recipe for spyglass is
>not broken. I am also really happy to get more information on the fishing
>pole. Thanks for telling us that you were given the fishing pole and had
>not made it. I, for one, am reluctant to start experimenting on an
>expensive trade for fear that the correct recipe is broken < for those that
>bake remember the dough recipe? > It's rather interesting to see that most
>of the trade skills are in a deadlock over certain components for high end
>skills:
>
> Alchemy- Doesn't seem to be widely implemented yet
> Poison - still too new in my opinion
> Tailoring - lack of resources: i.e. hq pelts
> Blacksmithing - always lack the skill for folded sheets of
>metal and lack of weapon/plate molds
> Baking - smoker available for purchase but not use
> Brewing - no one can find many of the components <morning
>dew for one> and no one knows how to make vodka
> Jewelry - extreme shortage of high end components
> Fletching - have been told that our cams can be used, but
>not verified
> Pottery - many of the recipes are invalid (mixing bowl for
>one)
>
> And then comes ours - Tinkering - an extreme lack of
>information. Having dabbled in all the trade skill this one seems the most
>frustrating. In all of the other skill, one buys the book, reads it and
>voila..on the road to success, until one gets high enough where the
>mysteries of the game come in. Which I can respect. But from step one,
>things like firewater are left out. <yes I do know how to make it by the
>way> I can't seem to get anyone to talk about it, npc's that is. <but that
>could be due to my faction - I'm a necro> So here is my idea. If Lukas
>would be willing <since his web page has 10,000 hits> There can't be that
>many combinations to make the pole. Have Lukas make up a spreadsheet of
>every combination and people email him request 5 things to try and he give
>it to him. Trial and error, we will succeed. Then, say, oh for a week keep
>the recipe to ourselves before posting.
>
> So, what shall we sell this pole for anyway? Double the
>cost of components? Just my 2 cents.
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