DAVE JACKSON has no formal training in making sea craft, but as it turns out he never needed any.
The self-proclaimed naturally gifted man simply set his mind to do it one day and that was it. When a SATURDAY SUN team passed him in “Moontown” in St Lucy, he explained how it all came about.
“I’ve been making craft for two years now. I was just here in the market sitting down and I saw some shells on the beach and I decided to make lamps,” he said.
From there what followed was a process of trial and error – and “skill”, as Jackson put it – and he was on his way. Not content to stop with shell lamps, however, Jackson soon broadened his horizons.
“I started curing starfish too. I got my own special method to do it, which make them hard. I could tell you but then . . . ,” he said.
Jackson said he was now looking into the best way to put bulbs in the cured starfish to make them glow. (CA)