Learn to Kit Build a Guitar. Learn to Scratch Build a Guitar. Learn EVERYTHING Guitars Here! 2026-08-14T13:25:52-04:00 https://www.kitguitarsforum.com/board/app.php/feed 2026-08-14T13:25:52-04:00 2026-08-14T13:25:52-04:00 https://www.kitguitarsforum.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=10377&p=62855#p62855

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All fixed now.

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Not very many of us still around from the beginnings. I certainly don't post like I used too, almost step by step through a build. Not because I don't have time but just that it seems like a bunch of repeats. But I still come on multiple times a day looking for posts, and sometimes going back into the archives....so glad they are still there at least back to this format.

I'm still building 18 years later and will keep going as long as I'm able. I've never met any of you in person, but I consider you all my friends!

Again thank you for all you guys do.

Kevin

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Bill started the original forum. John Hall carried it forward with Sean Large, and between them this community has stayed online and worth reading for going on twenty years. On today's internet, that is genuinely unusual. Forums like this close every year, whether it's hosting bills, a tired admin, spam, or someone deciding it isn't worth the trouble anymore. Just last week we were almost taken down by AI bots trying to learn what you all have written at once. That's a sign that we are worth reading.

Our own archive starts in July 2010. The board that came before it isn't online anymore, and its posts aren't anywhere. Years of questions, answers, and build threads that simply aren't recoverable. I don't want that to happen twice, and that's most of what motivated this.

Most of you know me. I've been doing admin here for about five years. This week I finally took over the hosting and the domain itself, the part I've never controlled until now. So this is less a change of hands than a formality catching up with reality.

John Hall isn't going anywhere. John wants to see this place keep going, and he continues to be a leader of this community: same voice, same guidance, same guy answering the hard questions about bracing and bending. Nothing about that changes. What changed is that the servers and the domain are now held by someone who can maintain them.

Nothing is going away. Every post, every thread, every photo you've uploaded is intact and staying put. Your account, your history, your build logs, all of it.

What changed is underneath. The forum has moved onto Amazon Web Services, sitting behind Cloudflare. In plain terms, it should be noticeably faster, it's protected against the attacks and scraper traffic that increasingly hammer small sites like this one, and it's on infrastructure I can fix myself.

Some numbers I pulled while doing the move:

54,006 posts across 5,986 threads
17,818 photos, plans, and drawings, the actual record of thousands of instruments getting built
2,823 registered members
78 people have posted here in five or more separate years
The longest-running thread, "Cuban Mahogany and Lutz Spruce 000," ran 200 posts over 14 years
That last one is the point. Somebody started a guitar, and this forum stayed up long enough for them to finish it and keep talking about it for over a decade.

All of that is now backed up properly, off-site, on infrastructure I control. That is something I couldn't honestly have said a week ago.

Thanks are owed. To Bill, for starting it. To John, for keeping it going and for still being here. To Sean Large, who carried the hosting and the domain for years with no fanfare and no obligation, and handed them over cleanly rather than letting things drift. And to Diane Kauffmann, who has quietly handled the user administration around here for as long as anyone can remember, approving registrations, sorting out logins, and fixing the small things nobody notices until they break. She's also the fourth most prolific poster in the entire archive, which tells you something about how much of this place she's personally held up.

What's next. The immediate job was keeping the lights on, and that's done. I had considered a software change to "modernize" the site but the truth his that PhpBB is solid, secure, and current. There's no need to abandon what we have, what works and has worked for decades. I code with AI tools and considered adding a fancy AI agent search to the site. That might be fun but can cost a good bit if we get a lot of hits and we aren't about to start taking subscription fees so I think we just stay the course and call it good.

Thanks for being here. Let's keep building.

John Read
KGF Admin

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