WWA Info Exchange

Why is it that a forum dealing with the old traditional muzzle loading rifles and smooth bores ( civil war and earlier) has three times as many members as this forum dealing with woodworking where compterized machines and drawings are part of the game ? Are woodworkers spending more time working wood than talking about it?

Hey Don,

I think that you answered your own question.

Tom

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There was a time ... long ago ... when this site ..... but ....

However there are sites that are thriving: http://lumberjocks.com/forums

good luck,
Don

I don't know, this place is quieter then it used to be, and probably is starting to disappear into the ether(albeit slowly).

The internet is just like life, just because its a small club doesn't mean its not a great one.

I still feel priveledged to be here.

Just my two cents
eric

Hey Don, if you promote other sites over this one, what do you expect? When was the last time you went on Lumberjocks and promoted the WWA?

Ray

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I aim to live for ever.... and it's taking me that long to get my workshop finished!

I don't know......Maybe "bigger is better" but, I enjoy this "family" sized site so much that I'm not sure I would post much on a larger one.
I have noticed (in the scrap pile where it belongs) that there alot of subjects that have nothing to do with woodworking at all!!!!
Every thing from "house hold hints" to "medical advice" and a new "joke" even showing off the new "wood hauler" to be found on this site. Not that thats all bad.
However, I do enjoy the woodworking subjects the most, that's why I'm here.

Rog

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I spent most of my money on woodworking
tools and beer, the rest I just wasted.

For me, I have not really worked wood for over a year-maybe two. Into other things right now.

I visit here several times a day just to keep connected and watch whats going on. What a great group of people.

Donald - I attribute it to MAD (Mutually Assured Deterrents).

You muzzle loaders have to keep track of each other because you never know when someone may get offended by "THAT last post" and go postal on you.

Hence, the muzzle loaders come together regularly in an on-line version of Muzzle Loaders United Nations to maintain a fragile sense of peace. So, the important question is who is the Hugo Chavez of muzzle loaders and what is he smelling now?

In the case of woodworkers, it is much harder to drag a saw over to TT's house to cut off his fingers in revenge for his subversive anti-weasel rhetoric. Hence the lower amount of posting over here.

In my case, I've just been swamped lately and haven't been logging in.

Indeed!

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Forums come and go, and our interests change as we go along our pathways through life. I'm on 4 different woodworking forums, some I'm on daily (like here) others perhaps once a week. I'm also on a photography and an RV forum. there are only so many hours of the day.

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I have just 3 sites I regularly visit. Here, an A-10 warthog site, and an AF CATM site. The other 2 only because I used to work on the A-10 and spent the better part of my AF Career as a CATM Instructor.

I've been to other WWing forums, but I never feel as welcome as I do here.

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The people here are nice. I like it here, so I stop in once a day and it's small enpough that you get to know the foks by name.

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I've been to the "Lumberjocks" forums. They're frikkin huge. Too big. It's like walking in and visiting a huge mega church in town where nobody knows you and they just nod in your general direction to acknowledge yer a visitin'.

They're nice enough but they ain't family. I'll take this place any day

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Tim Eastman
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I haven't been posting much of late as I haven't been doing much of late. Work, a stay in the hospital because of drug interaction, and a couple of other medical issues have kind of knocked me down a bit, but I still visit and still prefer the small family feel as well of this site over any other WW site I belong to. Except for one, and that one is a vary large one that caters more to the craft type woodworking, this is the only other WW site I frequent any more.

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Wolf

"I used to have an open mind, but my brains kept falling out!"

Tim, I find your comparing the other forum to this one as a mega church and a small church interesting as at this time I am writting a sermon(well I am supposed to be writting the sermon) as I edit tapes of our last service for the shut in's of our small country church. Well I've got to get off this nice little forum and get that sermon written.

Donald, i've never seen it this slow before. This is THE ABSOLUTE BEST woodworking forum on the web, and we're all family here. When one of us hurts, we all hurt. When one of us excels, we all celebrate. I spend more time here than most, I miss the days when I would sign on and see 4 or 5 new posts every time. One day last week, a day went by without a single response to a post.

So, once again, I ask everybody to post. Start a new one, talk about anything. You all say you're busy, but take 5 min. and talk about it.

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Well Donald - I hope the sermon went well that you were writing up. We had a great one this morning. Just marvelous.

Larry yes it has been slow but then so are a couple other forums I belong to for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) and another one for canoe builders. They're all slow.

Not sure we can pin it to one particular thing but I do know for drop dead certain - I come here for my therapy and pulling up a log in front of the fire to sit and speak with friends.

Flat out there is no other forum quite like this - we're an anomaly as far as the internet is concerned.

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Tim Eastman
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Tim, The sermon went well. I did the afternoon service for the local nursing home ( our church does one service a month and other churches do the other Sundays. ) Unfortunatly the music did not go as well. Since I cann't sing very well. ( At our church my wife makes me turn off the mic when I am leading the services) I had a tape from our church services to play for the songs. We did not take our own tape player since they had a larger one. But theirs wasn't working right and it kept getting slower and slower.It started out o.k. for the first song "Jesus Loves Me" The residents really liked it and we had our Sunday School first grade class make "Jesus Loves Me " cards for all of the residents. But by the last song . Amazing Grace it was barely moving. If you are interested I could E mail you the sermon (assuming I can attach the correct file ) if you give me your email.

Yeah Donald - send it to my email in my signature. I'd be interested in your sermon.

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