New Members - Please fill out your profile

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Every summer lots of new members join up as registered users. School being out and such, they are excited about learning to make knives. This is a good thing.

However, they rarely fill out their profile. Please take a few minutes and fill it out with real and accurate info. This will help you get better answers. Many experienced makers who would offer help, advice, or even materials and a shop visit will just hit the back arrow and not even answer a person who refuses to offer the basic info we need to make a suitable answer.

The info should include your location, hobbies and interests, occupation, and age."Somewhere in the Great Northwest" is not a location, Knife Knut is not an occupation.


While on this subject, I would like to reinforce the importance of reading the stickies. There is a wealth of info in them. It will take a few days to read them all, but they answer 95% of most first questions.

 

[Phydeaux]

Very good advice!

Another good thing about having an accurate location in your profile is that other might be able to recommend a local source of materials and other things. And as Stacy said, someone may be just around the corner and be more than willing to help you out.

When I first joined BF, I spent countless hours just reading through different threads and posts. This answered many of my questions, so I didn't have to post a question previously asked. There is so much information here, it never ceases to amaze me.

Thanks Stacy.

Ric

 

[Ironwood666]

Thanks for the info Mr. Apelt....my profile is very much improved

 

[Don Nguyen]

Time to update mine!