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Hesh's post about a historian got me thinking about the old days here, where I got my start as burbank way back in '05. Here's a 2006 snapshot of the OLF from the Wayback Machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060522155618/http://www.luthiersforum.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=1#forumTop

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Pretty cool that was a long time ago for sure. Sadly a few of those folks have passed as well.

So long ago.... there will be very few I suspect who remember the first iteration of the OLF forum. There was less than 100 of us back in 2004 I think when Lance started it...

Anyone heard anything from John Mayes recently? I always liked his wit and his talent as a maker was very good.

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Interesting that you asked about John Mayes. I have not heard from him lately, but I just looked back in the archives at my first post, which was in 2005, and John was the first person to respond to my question about the sound of sapele.

Pretty cool looking at the names from that way back list…

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Wow, that's a great link through the way-back machine. Lots of names in that thread that make me smile. Not to be morbid or anything, but is there a thread on those in memoriam so we can remember those who have passed? Sounds like a job for Hesh as the new historian.

Hesh don't live here anymore but he does visit in weak moments..... Hope you are doing great John.

It was so small at first we all had our pictures and a bio on the membership page.

Armed with an abundance of knowledge gleaned from books, DVDs, and an occasional recently completed building course and with the heady self confidence of a few completed instruments we were unleashed upon the unsuspecting world of professional lutherie.

Hope the OLF continues to hang on.

(BTW I joined in the first year but as I recall there was some kind of website reorganization around 2007 and I had to rejoin and got a new date in my profile)

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It couldn't have been that long ago. I'm not old enough to have been on this site that many years ago.

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I'm only aware of the passing of David Bland, and later on Beth Mayer. Who else have we lost from the early days?

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Only badly."

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Someone told me that a huge corpus of information (like many thousands of posts) got deleted or something, from the early or early mid years? I've seen holes in discussion threads when searching for content. Can one use the wayback machine to recover the threads? I'm not savvy enough to know the answer. Thanks.

Yeah, I can't remember the details, but both Todd Stock and Filippo Morelli left and took all their posts with them some years back. Lot of drama for no good reason.

There were only 261 wayback machine snapshots taken of the OLF since 2004, so there would be big gaps. You might get lucky though.

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