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Welcome to our second quarter-century!

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Welcome to our second quarter-century!

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Ellis Walentine

Happy New year, folks! 

The past year and a half have been pretty chaotic around here as we've transitioned from our old forum architecture to this rocking new one and repackaged the rest of our many thousands of pages of features and content. I hope everyone spends some time exploring the remarkable transformation that Peter Martin has wrought on this website. I had almost forgotten how much content we've accumulated in 25+ years, and I'm astounded by the new stuff that Peter keeps coming up with. Who knew there was so much other content out there that we could point you to? 

I'm spending a little time every day to explore all the new nooks and crannies around here, and am beginning to fathom the new possibilities of being a true woodworking portal. Just as one example, here's a rabbit hole I stumbled down this morning, with hundreds of old Sightings shots (minus all the original captions unfortunately, although they do exist somewhere). I'm sorry the pics are so small. We were dealing with very low bandwidth in those days, but the memories come flooding back of all the folks who contributed and made this site what it is. What a remarkable blast from the past. I think I have another several hundred of these for future uploading...

https://www.woodcentral.com/photos/Sightings/  [edited 2024-01-24 13:41:10]

Thanks for all your expertise and hard work, Peter. This place is getting better all the time. 
Ellis

Re: Welcome to our second quarter-century!

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Ellis......two steps forward and one step back.......good luck in the next 25!!

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Jim in Burlington Ont.

Hi Ellis,

You have always been a part of my woodworking world, so glad to be able to have your site and friendship!

Tak care, Jim

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As a refugee from Badger Pond, I was grateful for your site's welcome and accommodations. It's only gotten better over the years. I hope you have many more years of excellence.

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Ellis Walentine

@Dave Bair,

Thanks Dave. Looking back, I think one of the things that may have attracted people here was our simple set of rules -- common sense stuff like no religion, politics, personal attacks, or vulgarity. It was sort of a Golden Rule principle, enforced mostly by peer pressure, and it worked wonderfully. 

Ellis

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