Mike and Vigil. I remember taking driver's education in HighSchool on my first day of instruction and not really having any prior experience behind the wheel at fifteen.

I was doing figure eights around some cones in a parking lot and I veered way too far at some point. My first instinct for some reason was to grab the emergancy brake, an action that almost flipped the car.

The instructor yelled at me, "Oh my God! You could have ripped out the transmission!"

So, the lesson was, don't actually use it unless you are parked, or your main break gives out and the situation is dire enough to risk the engine.

Anchorage? Sounds like a great getaway from it all. 

I took My Babies to the 25th running of the Iditarod (to watch, not compete).

And I also collected my Martin D41.586833 while I was there :-) 

I just found this on my harddisk, maybe someone likes it, heh.
http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/spirit_untitled.mp3
I should have made it a proper loop... 

If that was on a proper loop and a little bit longer it would be great for a Doom 3 map. :D 

is what I hear about half the time -- the other half, "emergency break" 

a metal digeridoo? :) And some scifi ambience clearly.
Cool. 

So mail me, if you want one.

oh. ok. 

MO LIKE EMERGENCY MAKE THE CAR SMELL FUNNEH 

As it seem not to be clear:
I did not want set a price since 1. I don't know what getting new "blanks" will cost me and 2. I don't want to make money from you guys by announcing a higher price than it might be in the end and 3. I don't want to keep people with less money than needed out.

I _think_ it will be something around 5-7 Euro that I will have to pay to the guy who cuts them. I haven't got a reply from him though so this is totally a guess! I do not demand any money for the work I do myself. The only money that adds to the amount I need to cover is the shipping. Which totally depends on you, your location.

Perhaps I should have written this earlier: If someone bids less then the money needed I want to cover that from people who bid more. There is at least one person who would love to get a rune but is not sure if he can afford it. It would just be fair to cover it that way. If that doesn't work then I will pay it myself.

I just need to know how many runes I should get made. 13 Euro should probably(!) cover the costs. Repeat: This is my guess. I don't want to be accused being devious. I will tell you what it costs once I know. And you can decide what you want to pay then. (I better repeat this too: The lowest price possible is 100% ok, giving more would help people to whom it is too much. And if there is any residue I think it is damn well earned. Would be nice to get something for it without hurting anyone. I'd use the money for the hosting bill.)

You are welcome to ask if you are unsure about anything. Jesus, I almost feel like some stupid shop. Would have been better not to offer this perhaps. 

and still is a good idea, don't let it grow into something bad. 

even if you charge a ten percent overhead to cover weekend beer expenses it wouldn't be a <i< bad thing. It is your initiative and investment that is getting it done, you are not exploiting anyone. 

I was thinking more along the lines of amateur made textures. But thanks anyway. 

I'm willing to pay whatever it would take to post one of those to Australia. Just name the price. :D 

Spirit, do you only make the stylized quake Q? Or do you have any other designs? The quake rune that looks like a 7 would be cool to see I think. Or actually any of them. Hell, I'd probably pay for the set of 4. 'Cept you'd have to make 2 of them without the separate bits due to, you know, gravity and all. 

Tron: Shipping to Australia is 8 Euro, as the rest of the world. It might get down to 6 Euro though if the new runes are more light.

NotoriousRay: Heh, you aren't the first to ask that. No, I can't do other runes as I don't do the cutting job myself. 

I'll have 2 of those if I can,

There is at least one person who would love to get a rune but is not sure if he can afford it

and while your at it, the person mentioned above, I'll pay for one for them, and you can just send it to them. I'm not totally sure how this is working, I read 'bids' etc, anyway I'm happy to bid 100 Euro (whatever that is in Australian dollars) for 2 for myself and 1 for the other person, do what you will with any left over, I'll Email you later, with more questions and for info, I hope I can get them. It would make this old Quake freak very happy. 

Spirit;

Can you make me a rocket launcher please. And a pony, I always wanted a pony.

Mmmm, quad pony... 

I had nothing to do so I just worked a bit. I sawed(?) it out of a thin copper plate, added facets and then grinded it. The plate was a quite old one and not flat anymore, that's were the uneven and quite ugly surface comes from. It is not really faithful in the shape either, I didn't print it but drew it freehand. Well, just for fun afterall :)
http://quaddicted.com/stuff/quakerune/spirit_end1.mdl.jpg


VoreLord: Wow, this offer made me totally speechless. I think I totally misused the word "bid", seems like everyone misunderstood it first. =(

wrath: no :P 

How long do these take to make on average? (The Quake runes). 

Doing them consists of two parts. One is getting them cut (which I did myself in spring, but can't do now). The pre-work (configuring the CAD/CNC stuff) took about 1 hour. Assembling and cutting few moments. Adding structure is different. I made some very detailed with small round hammers (pic below), also I experimented a lot. I made ~12 runes in spring and that took one whole day. It's not too much work. What takes a lot of time is to get them rusted, but as they do that all by themselves (2-3 weeks) that is the laziest part. Finally I cleaned them and added varnish, that was about half an hour for three runes.

The most detailed one (mine,heh! which got a dive in saltwater to rust now since I loved the rusted!):
http://www.quaddicted.com/contribute/imageupload/images/spirit_quakerunes_2.jpg

The end1 rune took roughly 2 hours. 

with "two parts" I meant the part that someone else does for me (cutting) and what I do myself. 

How big are the runes? 

i would love to have a keychain quake symbol :) 

Now that I would pay good money for; especially if it were high quality like the runes seem to be. 

you rock so much!

/me is going to suicide because of the silly post not delivering me this beauty