Lee Valley

7/25/19, 5:01 PM #1

Roy
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Lee Valley

Roy

What in the world has happened to the Lee Valley site? I went to it and couldn't get anything except stuff about web sites and how to buy Lee Valley items on Amazon. No catalog, no What's New, nothing like that.

Roy

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7/25/19, 5:33 PM #2

Kneale Brownson
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Must be your connection. Works for me

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

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7/25/19, 6:09 PM #3

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click on the advertisement to the left

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but works great, either through the ad or the address

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7/25/19, 7:05 PM #4

Kneale Brownson
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Re: click on the advertisement to the left

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And if you visit there via the link on the left, you're helping WoodCentral.

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

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7/25/19, 8:27 PM #5

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How is it you are getting to this "damaged" site? What browser? Are you getting there through some sort of search engine? I find that if I just type "leevalley" into the address bar of my FireFox browser I automatically land at http://www.leevalley.com/us/ with nothing looking the least bit out of order.

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7/27/19, 6:24 PM #6

Roy
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Roy

Well, I did as suggested and everything is fine. I even just typed in Lee Valley and it came up okay. Another mystery as to why I couldn't get on the other day. Thanks for the responses.

Roy

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