Thanks again Dan, My wife is interested in finding a property in New Hampshire

to retire to .Ideally on a lake or stream. while my vision ideally would include a large barn rather the lake or stream.

I think that whole idea will lose the little momentum it has, once we are blessed with our first grandchild.

As my daughter will want our help, and we both will want to be in place in order to give it.

So the space for the drums will need to stay more local also.

Thanks grantro,

I would enjoy something like that for sure,

But I felt that participating on existing threads would be more well received,

which brings me back to those darned crickets.

I could start a thread, I could feature the drums, and share each story with great pleasure,

But for those crickets.......................................

Kenwood - Don’t overthink it just do it. One key element to any good thread is photos. Lots and lots of photos. Just show pictures and provide a descriptive narrative and success is all but guaranteed. The crickets will be too engaged in reading your offering to do very much chirping. Much to my surprise my W&A kit restoration thread has been viewed 225,000 (almost a quarter million times). It’s all up to you. You’ll never know unless you put it out there. Let the people decide. I’m sure a thread featuring your collection will draw tons of people. Without the participation and contributions of the members there is no content to draw in new members. Don’t procrastinate or make cricket excuses- do the work and then put it out there.

John

Yea, What Purdie said!

Wow, 225k. Upload to YouTube and maybe make a couple extra $$!

I get that Kenny. Priorities are correctly set. Grandchild trumps it all. You're going to love it. I can see a child running amonst the sets banging on every one just for the shear enjoyment of it all.

Man it’s deserted here

Indeed! Has been for a couple days .. but .. there will be commentary and/or posts eventually! Just the way it is now, and with regard to pretty much everything! We are still here though. No plans to shut anything down! 😎

Tommyp

And thanks for that, Tommy.

I was just thinking about how this place actually functions as a place for answers and not so much a place for social gathering. Personally, I like that. The place is dead from time to time because we have already answered most of the questions that anyone could think to ask about vintage drums. When someone does have a question, they likely Google it and then get led here. They find the thread with the answer they are looking for and then they are on their way. I've done that myself...I've Googled Arbiter drums....and was led back here, to a thread that I started! DOH!

We don't do any raffles or run any benefits for charity or anything frivolous. We don't really discuss much about new drums and products, for the most part. We just answer questions about vintage drums. And, like the drums we discuss, the information is finite. So, it's going to probably be slower than some other places, by comparison.

Let's face it...the heyday of drum discussion forums is in the past. There used to be all kinds of drum discussion forums....and arguments between forums! (lol!) RMMP, Drumsmith, DrumForum, Mike Dolbear's....each of them with their own resident personalities (love 'em or hate 'em!). But I think all of that got played out. What remains is (basically) one, pop/social media type of forum.....and us.

I do wish that it was easier to load pictures here. I wish the software would automatically resize pictures. That's just me because I am inept at these types of things! ;) But I think everyone likes looking at pictures.

BFF to the end cheers