A Question For the Moderators

[chambezio]

This is by no means a complaint about the Forum and how it works. Quite the contrary. I find the details expressed and the chit chat between members very good and entertaining. :2tsup:
My question is regarding ones status as printed next to the avitar. My designation is "novice". If thats referrring to my activity on the Forum then thats OK,:U But when I read it, I get uneasy on my chair because I have been in the carpentry trade for 40 years and being referred to as a "novice" doesn't fit right. :no: (Yeh, I know I am thin skinned and take things the wrong way) :doh:
Can I change the status to something more fitting like.....Dopey Old Phart...? :p If so how do I do it?
Regards Rod

[wheelinround]

Rod you can change it go into your profile

still makes you a Novice just one with Bad habbits Nun pun intended

[watson]

This is by no means a complaint about the Forum and how it works. Quite the contrary. I find the details expressed and the chit chat between members very good and entertaining. :2tsup:
My question is regarding ones status as printed next to the avitar. My designation is "novice". If thats referrring to my activity on the Forum then thats OK,:U But when I read it, I get uneasy on my chair because I have been in the carpentry trade for 40 years and being referred to as a "novice" doesn't fit right. :no: (Yeh, I know I am thin skinned and take things the wrong way) :doh:
Can I change the status to something more fitting like.....Dopey Old Phart...? :p If so how do I do it?
Regards Rod

Yep..you're right Rod.
Novice refers to your forum activity...nothing to do with your trade experience or expertise.

Wanna be called an "Old Chippy"...we can fix it.

[chambezio]

Thank you chaps for your prompt replies. My computer skills will sorely streched to make some changes. But I will have a go.
I just thought of a little incident when I was a very raw first year apprentice. My new hand saw was only a few months old and had gotten some ugly surface rust on it mainly where I had been sawing with it. (Probably from the moisture in the timber I was cutting) Anyway the chippy I was working with had an old veteran handsaw wich had a great patina covering it from decades of continual use. I commented to him on how mine looked pretty awful compared to his and when I, niavely asked him how he got such a nice colouring to his saw he said....."Use the bastead!"

Kind regards Rod

[woodturner777]

Well there you go Rod user name bastead.


I just thought of a little incident when I was a very raw first year apprentice. My new hand saw was only a few months old and had gotten some ugly surface rust on it mainly where I had been sawing with it. (Probably from the moisture in the timber I was cutting) Anyway the chippy I was working with had an old veteran handsaw wich had a great patina covering it from decades of continual use. I commented to him on how mine looked pretty awful compared to his and when I, niavely asked him how he got such a nice colouring to his saw he said....."Use the bastead!"

Kind regards Rod