Move over, Fabergé. Modern master Franc Grom creates and sells eggs that may outshine the 19th-century Russian jeweler’s Easter bling. Shown at work on Wednesday in Vrhnika, Slovenia, Grom uses an electric boring tool to drill approximately 2,500 to 3,500 holes in an eggshell.
Except that Fabergé eggs are made of precious gems, diamonds, silver, platinum, gold, and exotic lacquers.
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Smartalix? Gems is spelled G-E-M, not jem.
Its interesting to see this except would this hole-boring made the eggs more fragile than they already are?
Imagine this scenario:
Two men are at a party.
Man #1 asks Man #2 the standard question which everyone always asks: “So, what do you do?”
Man #2: “I bore holes into eggs.”
Man #1: “What?”
Man #2: “Yes sir. I bore holes into eggs. 3,500 holes, as a matter of fact. It takes me a long time. . . . . .
Man #1: “OK, if it turns you on. Whatevery makes you happy, man. Seems to me you have a few holes yourself!” (As he walks off).
The point is, who cares about eggs with thousands of holes in them?
I would never buy one. If someone asked me at a party “What do you do?”, I would never want to answer what Man #2 answered. A lot of things impresses me, but not hole-boring-into-eggs. Sorry. That’s just my opinion.
HOLY EGG Batman !!!The Fabragie has been out drilled again !!!
oh…..wish I had kept the link…..I have a bunch of pictures of laser cut eggs…..they are cool.
How the heck do you put something on this site…..lol
I think that this is very impressive and if someone asked me what I did at a party I would love to tell them that I did this instead of some ordinary career. This guy has some unreal talent, even if it doesn’t bring him the respect and money of a business executive.
This, in my opinion, should be filed under the same ‘people with too much time on their hands and an unusual hobby’ file as the japanese pencil carvings:
http://www.infofreako.com/jad/pencil/0list-e.html
Some of them defy belief.
“If someone asked me at a party “What do you do?”, I would never want to answer what Man #2 answered. A lot of things impresses me, but not hole-boring-into-eggs.”
3. Vickie, I would be impressed by anyone’s passion. Who are we to judge what other people love? If we judge whose criteria are we using? The media’s? Who told you drilling holes into eggshells is not impressive? It seems to me it takes great skill, patience and creativity to produce one of these eggs. I know, the media has not decreed this occupation to be prestigious like “lawyer, doctor, film director, computer programmer, model, actress”, etc. but are we concerned about job titles or the INDIVIDUAL who does what he does under a title that was bestowed on him by others? Never lose sight of a person. A person is all that matters, not job titles, salary, status, ethnicity, nationality or anything else that labels. Every person is a unique child of God with experiences that are different than anyone else’s in on the planet. A soldier doesn’t die in war, a person does.