I'm not sure about these new e-fingerboxes. Sure, they're pretty, but a 250-year-old teak fingerbox made in England, Germany or Japan will do the job just as well, and has got tons of potential for upgrading. I've got a collection of all sorts, and I must say that one of my favorites is a 170-year-old scrimshandered palm fingerbox from Rehoku which feaures part of a dendroglyph and was crafted by British sailors stuck on the island from HMS Prophetess. It's a beautiful piece of work. The overall feel is very good inside too, as it was lined with lambskin and felt like it. The mechanism is in tip-top condition because even though it's a wooden Heidelburg design the actual wood used is, like the case, palm and thus can be kept beautifully clean and functional with palm oil, which also brings out a nice dark finish. It's locked with an ivory key (cut from whalebone) engraved with the intials A.E. and in a niche inside the lid is a Gold Sovreign, which I only found looking over the box when I bought it - I was looking at the hinge and I noticed a tiny button, and click! Out it came. It's a wonderful piece of work, I had it insured for $17,000 but I think it would make several times that at auction... implying that I'd ever sell such a wonderful object, of course.
Share your fingerboxes guys!
August 20, 2015
August 16, 2015
2015 Gaming
Before:
-Multiplayer used to be free.
-You could play your games in any console.
-Consoles were sold with 2 controllers.
-Games had secrets and codes.
-Games were finished products.
- A console's potential would be tapped throughout its life cycle, and sometimes innovations like chips or ACM would tap even more
Now:
- Multiplayer? Online only lol. And online is not free either.
- Your games are for YOUR console. Unless you want to install it in your friend's console.
- 1 controller
- secrets and codes? LMAO no, pay for DLC.
- Games are often released incomplete and with game breaking bugs, so gamers pretty much serve as guinea pigs on the first months of release.
- launch games usually max out a console's power, leaving nothing to look for later
We're getting ripped off left and right. So I don't really care if the industry loses money IMO
-Multiplayer used to be free.
-You could play your games in any console.
-Consoles were sold with 2 controllers.
-Games had secrets and codes.
-Games were finished products.
- A console's potential would be tapped throughout its life cycle, and sometimes innovations like chips or ACM would tap even more
Now:
- Multiplayer? Online only lol. And online is not free either.
- Your games are for YOUR console. Unless you want to install it in your friend's console.
- 1 controller
- secrets and codes? LMAO no, pay for DLC.
- Games are often released incomplete and with game breaking bugs, so gamers pretty much serve as guinea pigs on the first months of release.
- launch games usually max out a console's power, leaving nothing to look for later
We're getting ripped off left and right. So I don't really care if the industry loses money IMO
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