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This is the only picture I have left of my very first project, which was scanned. I named this project, as well as others to come, ‘projects that burn well,’ because in early 1999 I had the opportunity to enjoy a house fire that conflagrated half of my house. Subsequent water applied to said fire for extinguishing purposes also left a beautiful patina of oxygenation to all of my tools, as well as melting, crushing, and general treatment beyond the manufacturers recommended use. I lost many very old and very much loved tools. No one was hurt, thankfully. These pictures actually still smell of smoke, strange the memories scent can return unbidden. It was quarter sawn white oak, which burns very hot, especially when coated with a hydrocarbon based accelerant like polyurethane.
-- "That Government is Best that Governs The Least."-Jefferson
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CharlieM1958
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posted 231 days ago
You have me thinking about what I would feel worst about if I lost everything in a fire. I’d have to say it would be family photos/videos first, and my various projects second. The rest is easily replaced. I’ve got a lot of tools, but none that have any particular sentimental value.
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
Christopher
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posted 231 days ago
I lost all of that too. Strangely, now that the photos and videos have been gone a long time I barely remember them, what I do remember, however, is my tools. Perhaps that is merely an insight into the brain of a Lumberjock.
-- "That Government is Best that Governs The Least."-Jefferson
CessnaPilotBarry
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posted 231 days ago
Back up those scanned photos! Then, TEST the backup on a regular basis!
I lost a hard drive last year with 15 years worth of digitized photos and a non-usable backup. The only digital photos I have of anything I built in the last 10 years is on a web site I haven’t really changed in three years. At least I still have a paper portfolio…
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TopamaxSurvivor
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posted 231 days ago
Christopher, Sorry to hear of you loss. Your mentioning white oak burns hot reminds me of an aquaintance of 30 some years ago. His house burned. Everyoine got out and was ok. He was a happy go lucky sort of character, very poor and said he didn’t have much to loose anyway according to him. He ran moonshine which was stored in the basement. He told how the place just exploded when the fire started burning the shelving and the jars and bottles started falling and breaking!!
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Rustic
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posted 231 days ago
CD-R have a sustainability of data for about 150 years. DVD-R as well. CD-RW are about 75 years.
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Devin
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posted 230 days ago
CD-R’s, and DVD-Rs have great “rated” sustainability, but the reality is that tests have shown dvd and cd media to degrade to unreadable in as little as 6 months. If anyone is using CD/DVD for archive purposes, do your homework. There are good quaility archive discs, but they do cost more.
-- If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? - John Wooden