The Nut in the Cellar calls it quits.

[Jim Frye]

Hi All: Just a quickie note to tell everyone that after 15 years as the Ryobi Tool Forum moderator, I handed in my "resignation" this morning. Nothing was wrong, but I have just been too busy to properly support the effort there and I felt it was time for me to move on. I didn't feel I could devote the extra time required to support the web site. Someone will replace me and I will still be the moderator for a while until things get sorted out. I'm still working wood and my original BT3K still runs like new. Take Care all.

[jcjrsmith]

15 years? Wow, that's a long time. They are going to be hard pressed to find a worthy replacement.

[Ed62]

Hi Jim,

You probably don't remember me, but I was a member of the Ryobi forum, years ago. I know they had a lot of problems keeping the forum available for members, and I didn't even know it was still going on.

Hopefully we'll be seeing more of you around here? We can always use the quality input you would bring.

Ed

[Black wallnut]

Wow Jim, enjoy your retirement! It was a post you made on the forum for Wood magazine that introduced me to the Ryobi forum what seems like many years ago. That started me down the path that brought me to where I am now. It's been a ride for sure.

I doubt whomever they find to fill the vacancy will be as good at it as you have been!

[BearPipes-1]

Add mine to the acclaim you're getting for a job very impressively well done.

[mclear6]

I think that Jim directed me toward BT3 Central as well. Thanks for all of the work you did over at the Ryobi Forum.

[Tom Miller]

Congrats and thanks for all your work, Jim! I don't even remember how I found the Ryobi Forum after I got my BT3k back in 2000, but what a find it was! Worth as much as the tool itself, and that was when they were going for ~$450 or something(?).

Regards,
Tom

[Jim Frye]

My Old BT3K

Congrats and thanks for all your work, Jim! I don't even remember how I found the Ryobi Forum after I got my BT3k back in 2000, but what a find it was! Worth as much as the tool itself, and that was when they were going for ~$450 or something(?).

Regards,
Tom

I bought mine in Feb. 1993. List price was $590. I used a Home Base credit card for the purchase and got 10% off. I still have a brand new early production BT3100 sitting outside my shop door. Some day I will wear the old BT3K out and have to put the new one to work.

[Turaj]

Thanks Jim for all your hard work. You probably don't remember me but back in 1999 when I was thinking about buying a BT, I started checking the Ryobi site and your posts were the main factor that convinced me that this was a good saw and even better group of owners.

Thanks again

[Pappy]

Talk about a blast from the past! I haven't been to the Ryobi forum in a couple of years. Hang around here, Jim.

[Sam Conder]

Godspeed sir!

Inasmuch as Jim is responsible for the success of the Ryobi Forums, he is also VERY MUCH responsible for the success of BT3Central. I too was a moderator on the Ryobi Forums at one time and I learned how to moderate a forum from Jim. Additionally, he provided many of the original jig ideas and articles that were used to formulate what has evolved into BT3Central.com. A brief perusal of the original "articles" content will show the amount of work Jim poured into making the BT3X series table saw what it has become...

http://www.bt3central.com/articles/articles.asp

Now Jim... get back in the cellar and use that saw!

[crokett]

Sorry to see you are leaving there Jim. You steered me to this site as well and now I am a moderator here. I also remember some of the problems keeping that site available and I hope Ryobi got those resolved.