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Jean Michels web site is gone

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A very good resource appears to have disappeared in the last few days.

Jean Michel's web site, which had a lot of good information concerning homemade grinding jigs has been replaced with a site advertising the domain name.

If anyone knows how to retrieve this information and host it, it would be a great help to the turning community.
 
Well, first are you certain it's gone and not just down? Even the domain ad doesn't prove it's gone

Then there are the (various) archive sources like
Archive.org
 
It says at the top

"Notice: This domain name expired on 02/04/06 and is pending renewal or deletion"

Let's hope it's renewal!
 
Web site

There are companies that exist to grab control of popular web sites when the registration date expires --- personal experience cited. Then, you have the choice of buying the domain name back from these leeches or having to establish a whole new site. Either way it may take a few weeks to get the whole thing straigtened out, or it could stay "gone forever". Be forewarned that the experation date for your site needs to be watched. Phil
 
I think part of the reason his site has expired is that he himself expired a while ago. I remember reading on one of the boards that he died. I forget where, but I think it was Wood Central.

Bill
 
He died about a year ago. He was truly a Craftsman who will be missed. I have and use several of his designs that he posted on his site.

Walt
 
Most of the material is still in existence at Archive.org, but the animations seem to be broken. I know of a turning forum that would be willing to host the info, but I don't know how one could get the animations back.
 
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