Beginnings of another tutorial

After thinking it over for a few months, I've decided to make the post shuttle tutorial. I presented a question on what style of tutorial it should be. A video with some edits to keep the whole thing from becoming too long? Or a more simple picture based tutorial like the one I already posted of the flat shuttle? Then I had to take into account on whether to include also the mold making process. I've realized that I've taken for granted that mold making step. I've been working for resin for so long now, that I assume everyone would know how to find videos and other tutorials to help them.

With my own clumsy stumbling into resin in mind, I'm going to begin this tutorial. I can do both, shoot the actual video and if seems like it would be too much work later, I can just make it a picture tutorial. I could actually just pull the still shots from the video. Two birds one stone mentality. On this blog, I'm going to post the tutorial as multi-post picture lessons. Honestly, this isn't going to be anything but involved and time consuming. Since I'm seriously lacking on time, maybe there's others out there who can help expand this particular skill to the world.

I hesitate on the video version because I don't like the way I sound on camera. It's stiff and sometimes my tone can be interpreted as bored and angry. I tend to just want to get it done and slowing down to 'teach' bugs me sometimes. Which I find funny, since I tend to want to teach others, I usually just lack patience with myself. Information overload and all that. With that in mind, you'll receive two posts today! The first will be this introduction, then the first step into mold making! I have a tatting friend, Jane Eborall, who does a Tat-it-and-see every year. She releases small parts of a final motif in small lessons. Using that as my drafting process, I will begin my shuttle tutorial for everyone. I will try and release the next portion on Friday evenings, since it's the only day I know I will have free every week.

My Honey suggested I sell the actual tutorial to make up for the supplies. While it does make sense to do that, I'm not sure if I really want to do that. I only just decided to actually do the tutorial. Thoughts for later. I will start off with making the molds. Afterwards, I can decided to whether to sell the tutorial or give it away for free. Or maybe do a coupon code to give away the tutorial for a certain amount of time? Monetizing on something I do for fun just seems like too much work for my lazy habits.