Hello - New from a new member

[MitreMSS]

Hello, and Greetings from Canada,

I just picked up a Morso 8900 chopper and a Taurus 292 F/P.

Looking for some knobs and pins and some help operating the pinner.

Totally new to framing. Help is greatly appreciated.

Gary

[Keith Hewitt]

I'm surprised - its had 700 views and no one has said "Welcome"
I thought we were proud to be a friendly bunch

Or told Gary to check out The Grumble as more likely to not only greet him, but a better source of info for a Canadian.

https://www.thegrumble.com/

[MitreMSS]

Hello, Keith!

Very kind of you to forward some information. Greatly appreciated.

Maybe I should have said a little about myself. A father of two. A man who loves to read and create. Happy to have found this new journey of framing. Very excited about the possibilities.

Thanks again, Keith!

Gary

[JKX]

I'm surprised - its had 700 views and no one has said "Welcome"
I thought we were proud to be a friendly bunch

Or told Gary to check out The Grumble as more likely to not only greet him, but a better source of info for a Canadian.

https://www.thegrumble.com/

It’s not had 700 views in less than 24 hrs, Keith / nothing would!

It’s a forum glitch, happened before, not long ago. All recent threads are the same.

[Justintime]

Welcome Gary! I did also think that you'll get much more relevant info from the North America based Grumble, but hey you made it here!!
Welcome to the UK's version of a busy forum!

[MitreMSS]

Thank you, George!!

Well alas, at least now I know there are forums.

Thanks very much!

[Mark 4067]

Hello - I'm new as well - from Somerset, UK. Hi everyone

[Rainbow]

Welcome Gary and Mark, hope you'll both enjoy being here

[sy_woodworking]

Hey Gary ... welcome!

I went the other way round, I found The Grumble first and they pointed me here when I said I was from the UK

[MitreMSS]

Thank you for the welcomes and also welcome to Mark!

SY we all need to start somewhere! Nice to meet you.

My first love is woodworking.

Cheers

[Stina]

This forum is better than the grumble. At least if you just want to scroll around and read. The grumble’s layout and colours make me dizzy.

Welcome!

[JKX]

I wouldn’t say it’s better at all. It’s different and it’s a good idea being a member of both forums.

TFG is far bigger and busier but then it’s based in the US, but it’s also more proactive - themes change with seasons, holidays, etc. it has many donators, including me. it’s social sub forum “warped moulding” is always busy. It was all even busier but social media has taken its toll; moreso here though I think, as there’s only a small core of regular contributors left now.

I joined it in 2002, 4 years before I heard about this forum.

[Mike@GTP]

Stina,

I am from the "cousin" forum in USA, and think both are very important to have an easily searchable history of previous framing topics. Social media groups are one pile of uncategorized discussion, and difficult to search. Forums like this stick around, as data collection free and long term reliable resource. It's a volunteer effort.

Feel free to contact me directly any time, if you have suggestions on how the layout or colors could be improved. Yes, we try to "skin" it for every major holiday, just to keep it interesting, but much of that can also be turned off by the user.

Mike Labbe

[MitreMSS]

Greetings again. Almost a year later and I had a membership at the grumble but cancelled it as no one had replied to my questions.

Unfortunately this forum is similar. Many members will to chirp about this and that but nothing really helpful in a meaningful way.

Hence, the search feature often doesn’t return results that are relevant.

It would be helpful to be able to delete posts that have no relevance to the topic of discussion or the question being asked.

[JKX]

Non taken!

[Justintime]

I think it depends how where and what you ask tbh.
I'd never heard of a Morso 8900 and had to Google it. I've heard the name Taurus, but it's not a current machine or one that many of us even remember I expect.
" You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time" John Lydgate.
This is the introductions section.
And seconded, non taken!

[JKX]

The grumble changed my game completely.
You see problems solved and assistance offered daily, it’s the best on line resource there is, and for me, just the best resource there is “period”!


I don’t think you can cancel your membership, an admin would need to do that. What was/is your username there? Very unusual to get a reasonable request for help ignored.

Here, you’ve asked a question that needs a lot of elaboration, instead of just saying hello and then asking for advice in the relevant section.

There’s even a “forum issues” section if you really feel you need to rant about the place, even with no experience of it.

[MitreMSS]

Non taken!!

Yes, tbh.. it was a couple of vintage machinery I cleaned up and was totally new to posting on such a system, so I was overly zealous in my post. You are correct Justin I could have sent out 2 messages, but my comment was more directed to the grumble not being very useful so I requested admin delete my profile.


I’ve learned a lot by just reading.
I will stick to that going forward.

[Mike@GTP]

I can confirm, and was happy to accommodate the request.

We have had about 2 requests to delete profiles, I believe, in 28 1/2 years.

I'm sorry that no one was able to help with your question.

Best regards,
Mike