urcuzzn
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Hey Peter- I see you have one of those new fancy scrapers there. How do you like it?
I was wondering if that "unpleasantness" has led to the lack of postings as of late. Did it put off the hawaiian builders over the Kimo/HMS thing? Hopefully the community will recover and come back!
OH and Peter, great looking work! Envious! I'd love to learn to build someday but I better just concentrate on learning to play better and better and admire the art of building from afar!
He still posts occasionaly on the "Uke technical support page"but what happened to Rick Turner? he was the best at giving Real advice
Having joined not all that long ago and coming from an outsider's perspective I have to honestly say that UU builder's forum (at least from MY perspective) seems to harbor a tendency for acerbic replies, and I know I'm certainly not as inclined to participate here as much as I do on other forums...
...Maybe some just operate that way, but I think it contributes to some having the opinion that they would be better off not posting for fear of critical response.
One thing to add, it's the owners of any website that dictates the flow of the forums
I understand how you could feel that way but in the couple of years I have followed this segment of the forum I have learned incredible info and building techniques from the best ukulele builders in the world.
For me, I first learned to search the archived posts for answers, because I have always found others willing to help and teach me if I said "Hey I read your advice about ___ and have a question" or "it didn't work for me, what's up with that?" I think the acerbic comments you may have seen were generally the result of someone posting something like - "hey, I want to make the world-best ukulele with my first one, AND I know all about that 'experience yadda-yadda' so just tell me what to do in one post"
Back to Peter's original post now - Thanks you guys, for being here. Ken (also ever-present) is right, people are still here if you look about a bit.
Rudy..You and me have a lot in commonThank you for PC-ness and understanding my viewpoint. your comments are well-taken.
Being new to UU, the first thing I did as went back and sequentially went through ALL pages of the builder's section for the last year. You can get a pretty good idea of the nature of discussion going back and reading that far, and you start to run into the same topics being posted multiple times.
I learned a long time ago that search engines within the forums are a great way to not illicit a lot of grumbling from participants about the need to re-post something that's already been covered. It's oftentimes a forum's greatest asset.
As far as acerbic comments, I try to practice tongue-biting, realizing the old adage about what to do if you don't have anything good to say still rings true today. The world would be a better place if more folks adopted the practice.
I personally don't like adversarial discussions regardless of how well-meaning they might be, so I tend to leave all the heavy lifting to the big dogs.
Thanks again!
Maybe all the good questions have been asked , and answered already .