First off, thanks for the replies.
Second, also thanks go out to those of you who did email me offering their help.
Now, on to comments made by John B.:
I think you misread my post. Nowhere did I say I wanted to buy someone's plans (its even worse, I wanted them for FREE!
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But thank you for informing me about how I would be stealing ("taking royalties" as you stated) and how plans are sold so a person could build just one - what happens if someone did that, then decided to build another one? Do you really think they would buy the plans again (gee, I wonder where you would want them to do that? Perhaps your own website?
Talk about a cheap plug.) Puuhlleezzeee!
Also, thanks for comparing apples to oranges when it comes to "downloading free music from the web." While we are "comparing," have you ever read the sports section of a paper you didn't pay for? I would wager yes. Tell me you paid the newspaper publisher their 50 cents for it? No, you didn't? Hm. Have you ever read a magazine while waiting in the dentist/doctors office? I would again wager yes. Did you pay for that? Where's Times money? Of course you didn't. You ever borrow a DVD from a friend and watch it? Bet you have and you didn't buy it. Where's the studios money? You ever buy anything at a yard sale? I bet you have and that was "unethical," as you put it. See my point yet?
Anyway, I was asking for whatever people didn't want or need anymore. Not so I could produce the plans and sell them. Just so I could make one, then pass it on to the next guy. That's it. If that makes me a thief in your book, so be it. Just don't be so fast to cast stones when you live in a glass house - because I know you have done everything I stated above. We all have. Rant over.
Now, back to the subject. I'm still looking for the teardrop pattern that someone used and could send me - yea, I know about the websites, but I have computer issues :!: so I would rather just open an envelope.