`The following thread is from 2006 and was a sticky in the Staff Announcements. The links don't work (no surprise). I unstuck it.
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/f22-staff-announcements-new-members-checklist-870.html
Hopefully it has been re-written somewhere else (and appears to be more inviting and friencly)
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/f22-staff-announcements-new-members-checklist-870.html
Hopefully it has been re-written somewhere else (and appears to be more inviting and friencly)