Yesterday, I was browsing the World Market (used to be a Reading's China location), and saw chile bottle openers, the size and shape of a meduim New Mex, with an opener loop at the stem end. They were heavy metal but kind of roughly made. They also had rope ristras with ceramic chiles, almost all red. The note about the chile cabinet pulls makes me wonder, does anyone on the list work with metal casting? Have they ever made a cast from a real chile, and produced metalware from it? Pondering a possible lost-hab technique... - A _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.