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Dennis,

I can't believe I never heard of you till I came across this thread. Are you a gunsmith, machinist, guild member, ???????

Anytime I do something well (rarely) and get a fat head, I now look at this thread to put things in perspective. This is the most extensive project I've ever seen and your workmanship and taste are impeccable.

Thank you very much for sharing with us.

Dick

Thanks, Dick. I think there are a number of amateurs out that are doing work like mine that simply don't expose their work on forums like this.

Barrel tray is done.

Test

Dennis,

I miss updates on this thread. It seems Photbucket screwed up your pictures just like they did mine. I switched to Imgur and find it more user friendly.

Looking forward to more progress on your project.

Dick,
Pretty frustrating, really. It is going to take a long time to load and link my many Martini project photos using a new site and I think it would simply be a temporary respite. Eventually Imgur will do the same thing that Photobucket did. The real solution is for the images to be hosted on this forum's site and I can't imagine what a headache that would be for the host. I would pay a reasonable subscription fee for access to this site if it had photo hosting.

The real tragedy of all of this is the historic loss of the many photo contributions by people like Petrov and many, many others. Even if Petrov's images were available, it would be a Herculean effort to modify all of the posts with new photo links. Having checked, no one knows his password for the PB account so it really doesn't matter.

I can't tell you how many times I have referenced images on this site that simply aren't available anywhere else. They are the most focused and invaluable reference that I know of for the historic and classical guns I'm interested in.

Yes Dennis it is painful. I have tried, over the years, to always save a copy of the pictures posted here and other sites that interested me. So, if you haven't done this in the past you may want to consider doing so going forward.
On that same vain if there is a picture you can remember, but can't find it anymore, I may have it, please send me a PM and if I have it I can share back.

With regards to Photobucket and other sites I fully agree with your assessment.
IMO, what happened at Photobucket is typical of the failure of their management to first keep their eye on the business model and second their failure to sell the advertisement dollars needed to stay in business. Poor quality employees is that issue. When those advertisement dollar dry up instead of managing costs, firing the non-productive employees, they look for new revenue streams which in this case is the people using their site for storage which is the root purpose of the site which in turn generates outside advertisement revenue. I predict they will go belly up in the near future.....kind of sounds just like our government doesn't it. LOL

I don't understand... My Mac is 2-1/2 years old and I have downloaded a ton of pics on it... even downloads off my trail cam with a gazillion deer, etc, pics. The computer says I have only used about 10% of my available storage. I only loaded pics on Photobucket that I wanted to publish one way or another which was quite a few. Still, I haven't lost any... I just can't get at the ones in PB anymore and, this really pisses me off... you can't see the ones that have been published. Still, I haven't lost any... they are all in the Mac.

Photobucket either decided they needed more revenue to keep going or they just got greedy. Whoever made the decision to go from free to $400.00 probably will put them out of business.

Imgur, so far, has been both more dependable and more user friendly. Photobucket would have to pay me to get me back... probably $400.00.

Another one done.

I tried to open the last pic and it never did open. I've spent a lot of time over the last three years documenting three project guns that I made on several sites. All are lost. I switched to Imgur and it works well. I did go back and post Imgur pics of the finished projects at the end of my threads. PB will not be forgiven for the time, now wasted, that I spent.

Try again... O.K. this is a better pic of my .222 project. Easy to do with Imgur.