A few days ago Bas posted about the Tenoning Jig being on sale at Lowes. I asked for and received a copy of the receipt from Gotcha6 (Thanks Dennis). Knowing what the end result would be:nah::nah:, I still went over to the Lowes near me at 70/401 in Raleigh. The operations manager told me that they do not do price matching on clearance items. "Bummer" I thought, "Guess I'll have to wait until I find another on sale."
Later that night I came on to see what else was going on, and saw that I had a private message. Bruce (junquecol) some how knew that I was not able to get the deal. Don't know how he knew because I had not posted about it, but nevertheless he knew (I think he has ESPN:widea
. So anyway, Bruce sent me a message out of the blue asking if I was interested in buying the jig still cuz he bought extras at the sale price. I couldn't type fast enough to get my reply to him. Met him the next day, and now I too am the proud owner of the sale priced jig. :eusa_danc:eusa_danc:eusa_danc THANKS BRUCE!!!
What is it with you people??? :icon_scra:dontknow::eusa_thinI have never been associated with a group of seemingly disconnected people that actually give a crap about one another. I have "friends" that I wouldn't count on for the response that I've seen take place here!! Sad? Maybe. True? Definitely!! Granted I'm a newbie here, so I don't have any real expectation that the whole community would gather behind me if the poop hit the fan, but I would be willing to bet that if I made a post seeking assistance:help::help:, I would get help from quite a few folks.
The title of the post is rhetorical. If none of the above made any sense at all, let me try to be a little more plain.
I applaud all of you!!:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap :eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap
I have no idea how you managed to put this place together, but I am certainly glad that you did. The examples I gave above are small, and may seem insignificant. If you want a better example see:
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/f81/if-youre-bored-saturday-21401/
I went out to help Scott purely out of selfish reasons. I looked at it merely as a way to meet a couple of you. From the original posts I read, I was only expecting one other person to be there (plus Scott). Frankly, I was surprised at the lack of responses. Of course, when I got there, I found a whole bunch of folks working away and my respect for the community was restored.
Man, that was a long way to go to get here:
I thank all of you for creating a place filled with genuine people, that really do care about the others in their community. TAKE A BOW!!!:notworthy::notworthy::notworthy: And give yourselves a pat on the back!!
Now, forgive the admittedly sappy post :embaresse:embaresse , and get back to making dust!!
Later that night I came on to see what else was going on, and saw that I had a private message. Bruce (junquecol) some how knew that I was not able to get the deal. Don't know how he knew because I had not posted about it, but nevertheless he knew (I think he has ESPN:widea
. So anyway, Bruce sent me a message out of the blue asking if I was interested in buying the jig still cuz he bought extras at the sale price. I couldn't type fast enough to get my reply to him. Met him the next day, and now I too am the proud owner of the sale priced jig. :eusa_danc:eusa_danc:eusa_danc THANKS BRUCE!!!What is it with you people??? :icon_scra:dontknow::eusa_thinI have never been associated with a group of seemingly disconnected people that actually give a crap about one another. I have "friends" that I wouldn't count on for the response that I've seen take place here!! Sad? Maybe. True? Definitely!! Granted I'm a newbie here, so I don't have any real expectation that the whole community would gather behind me if the poop hit the fan, but I would be willing to bet that if I made a post seeking assistance:help::help:, I would get help from quite a few folks.
The title of the post is rhetorical. If none of the above made any sense at all, let me try to be a little more plain.
I applaud all of you!!:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap :eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap
I have no idea how you managed to put this place together, but I am certainly glad that you did. The examples I gave above are small, and may seem insignificant. If you want a better example see:
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/f81/if-youre-bored-saturday-21401/
I went out to help Scott purely out of selfish reasons. I looked at it merely as a way to meet a couple of you. From the original posts I read, I was only expecting one other person to be there (plus Scott). Frankly, I was surprised at the lack of responses. Of course, when I got there, I found a whole bunch of folks working away and my respect for the community was restored.
Man, that was a long way to go to get here:
I thank all of you for creating a place filled with genuine people, that really do care about the others in their community. TAKE A BOW!!!:notworthy::notworthy::notworthy: And give yourselves a pat on the back!!
Now, forgive the admittedly sappy post :embaresse:embaresse , and get back to making dust!!
