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im not trying to be offensive here, but coming from someone who works for a corporation that crushes the mom and pop's who labor in "obsurity and near poverty" in the office supply industry, i think your comments on this guy's paddles are out of line. i don't personaly know any of the paddle guys involved, but i do know that everybody has to start somewhere. i doubt jimi's first stix were all that great either, as was your tattoo artists first pieces. cut the guy some slack. personally, i can't afford a five hundered dollar wood paddle that i will probably lose, as my skills are not all that great. i would condsider spending 275 on a nice paddle. why not slam all the other s.o. terrik knockoffs. pothole makes em', im sure others do to. if jimi was so concerned, there is a patent office in D.C. that could have allowd him to protect his idea. perhaps jimi and this guy are at war with each other; perhaps they are good friends. do you know? i don't. i think the kid made a decent looking paddle, and one that was more function than form. here's an idea, a wv paddlemaker making paddles that west virginian's can afford. if you kill off all the start-ups the'll be no one to there to replace the masters when they retire. jim snyder makes art, no doubt, but i hardly see this kid as taking jimi's customers. i see him as taking mitchell, werner, and lightnings, customer and turning him or her into a wood junky, thus facilitating jim's rise from near poverty, as the these wood paddlers have to have the best when the time comes for their next paddle. "do with your $$ what you like, but I think it's a damn shame that we're so willing to disregard someone who has given so unselfishly to us for a few sheckels." good advice! *tosses office depot catalogue into trash can* sorry to rant. this just got to me.
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pretty ignorant posting, mothra..... New 
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