alamogunr
02-22-2013, 02:25 PM
In my shop/gun room, I have two large file cabinets. With all that room, I have a tendency to save too much paper. Over the past 15-20 years, I have printed and saved emails, articles, Cast Boolet posts/threads, CB-L, etc. and sort of filed them helter skelter. Last week I started to try to organize and throw away.
I got bogged down because I stopped to read everything I came across. One thing stood out. There were a lot of names on all these that I don't see much any more. One in particular was Bill Ferguson. I have many pages of his articles and emails that we traded as I was getting started in casting. I have not tried to contact him lately because he was always somewhat difficult to talk to on the phone and because of his age, I doubt he does much, if any, dealing in lead and casting supplies. The stuff I have is, to me, valuable because of his technical expertise and depth of knowledge. His use of the English language was also entertaining.
I'm not going to mention any other names because they may still be active and may not want their names spread around. Several of these I have found still post on the CBA Forum. I don't get there often but usually spend a couple of hours when I do. I still belong to the CB-L e-list. While not as active as it once was, it is still interesting.
Most of the documents are both interesting and valuable to me. So this long term project is more about organizing than throwing away.
The old catalogs/brochures are interesting too.
I'm sure many others here are pack rats too.
I got bogged down because I stopped to read everything I came across. One thing stood out. There were a lot of names on all these that I don't see much any more. One in particular was Bill Ferguson. I have many pages of his articles and emails that we traded as I was getting started in casting. I have not tried to contact him lately because he was always somewhat difficult to talk to on the phone and because of his age, I doubt he does much, if any, dealing in lead and casting supplies. The stuff I have is, to me, valuable because of his technical expertise and depth of knowledge. His use of the English language was also entertaining.
I'm not going to mention any other names because they may still be active and may not want their names spread around. Several of these I have found still post on the CBA Forum. I don't get there often but usually spend a couple of hours when I do. I still belong to the CB-L e-list. While not as active as it once was, it is still interesting.
Most of the documents are both interesting and valuable to me. So this long term project is more about organizing than throwing away.
The old catalogs/brochures are interesting too.
I'm sure many others here are pack rats too.