Woodwork Post

Hi Woodfinishing Mavens,

A couple of corrections, clarifications, addendum, etc.

A long time ago in a hillside estate not too far away, I owned/
operated shellac.net and distributed literally tons of flakes across
the U.S., Canada and abroad (and yes, there was a time when a broad
worked at packing/shipping shellac, but that's a different story for a
different time). Russ Ramirez was the owner of
woodfinishingsupplies.com, back in those halcyon days of rec.norm and
operated a first class operation out of Rochester, MN. Russ and I had
our clashes on the net, but eventually became good friends and
colleagues in the business. Russ (I assume he's still out there
living/breathing) is a modest guy and his withdrawing both from small
business and this newsgroup was a loss.

Let's not confuse Russ with Ron Ashby (woodfinishsupply.com, of Fort
Bragg), the guy who purchased the shellac.net domain and my shellac
inventory back in the late spring of 2001. At the time, shellac.net
was grossing $5K/month on average, once spiking at nearly $7,000 in
one month. That's a lot of shellac. The terms of the sale to Mr.
Ashby were that he would purchase the inventory at wholesale cost, and
then pay a commission on sales generated by shellac.net. Well
according to his records, sales from shellac.net plummeted from a
robust $5k monthly, to about $400/month. Clearly shellac sales
through that site were the harbinger of the current economic crisis,
as the sales dropped more than 90%. Obviously the shellac.net name
carried no goodwill with it. Shame. The alternative is unthinkable,
that someone would deliberately under-report sales in order to weasel
out of paying commissions. No way; my brain won't even go there.


'Course, given that worthless site, it makes a feller wonder why
someone would re-open at the same address when sales were previously
so dismal? It's a puzzler.

No worries. I've been in contact with my original suppliers, and am
working on getting back to providing Paddylac (TM) to the teeming
masses... oh yeah, at prices that'll blow the current shellac.net out
the water. ;) It's not personal, it's business.

Maybe we could have a site-naming contest right here, the winner to
get free shellac for life? Yeah, that's the ticket.

Stay tuned...
Paddyo

Paddyo wrote a fascinating story....



And suggested a new shellac.net naming contest, since he sold the rights for
the old domain. So here are my suggestions. I included spaces to make it
easier to read.

shellac dot net rises again
shellac source
shellac again
shellac squared
shellac r us
paddyo shellac
the good stuff
exquisite flakes
flake source
flakes r us
flake central
shellac flakes
paddyo flakes

Carry on folks, Add to the list.

On Nov 13, 6:28 pm, "Lee Michaels"
wrote:
> Paddyo wrote a fascinating story....
>
>
>
> And suggested a new shellac.net naming contest, since he sold the rights for
> the old domain. So here are my suggestions. I included spaces to make it
> easier to read.
>
> shellac dot net rises again
> shellac source
> shellac again
> shellac squared
> shellac r us
> paddyo shellac
> the good stuff
> exquisite flakes
> flake source
> flakes r us
> flake central
> shellac flakes
> paddyo flakes
>
> Carry on folks, Add to the list.

paddylac IS shellac

>> Carry on folks, Add to the list.
>

paddylacshellacismadeofpeople.com


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patrick wrote in
news:493277fb-e6a0-4023-bbe7-5e5f8655eddb@r37g2000prr.googlegroups.com:

>
> paddylac IS shellac

paddylacshellacgiveadogabone

I do like "exquisite flakes" for such a site. Selling shellac only is very
much a niche thing (working on model railroad layout electrical systems is
too (not a plug or anything)), so a name like that adds a bit of fun to the
whole thing.

Puckdropper
--
If you're quiet, your teeth never touch your ankles.

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Lee Michaels wrote,on my timestamp of 14/11/2008 1:28 PM:
> Paddyo wrote a fascinating story....
>
>
>
> And suggested a new shellac.net naming contest, since he sold the rights for
> the old domain. So here are my suggestions. I included spaces to make it
> easier to read.
>
> shellac dot net rises again
> shellac source
> shellac again
> shellac squared
> shellac r us
> paddyo shellac
> the good stuff
> exquisite flakes
> flake source
> flakes r us
> flake central
> shellac flakes
> paddyo flakes
>
> Carry on folks, Add to the list.



Man, this brings back fond memories!!!!!
:)


ShellacPhoenix
or the classic and still my preferred, the
one and only:
Paddylac

"Noons" wrote in message
news:gfjtnu$s6s$1@feeder.motzarella.org...
> Lee Michaels wrote,on my timestamp of 14/11/2008 1:28 PM:
>> Paddyo wrote a fascinating story....
>>
>>
>>

> Man, this brings back fond memories!!!!!
> :)
>
>
> ShellacPhoenix
> or the classic and still my preferred, the
> one and only:
> Paddylac

Yes it does... Happy Days are here again!
Tom

Lee Michaels wrote:
> Paddyo wrote a fascinating story....
>
>
>
> And suggested a new shellac.net naming contest, since he sold the rights for
> the old domain. So here are my suggestions. I included spaces to make it
> easier to read.
>
> shellac dot net rises again
> shellac source
> shellac again
> shellac squared
> shellac r us
> paddyo shellac
> the good stuff
> exquisite flakes
> flake source
> flakes r us
> flake central
> shellac flakes
> paddyo flakes
>
> Carry on folks, Add to the list.
>
>
>
>

I believe O'Deen sold "shellac.net" to Liberon back in 2001.

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA
novasys@verizon.net

Nova writes:
>Lee Michaels wrote:
>> Paddyo wrote a fascinating story....
>>
>>
>>
>> And suggested a new shellac.net naming contest, since he sold the rights for
>> the old domain. So here are my suggestions. I included spaces to make it
>> easier to read.
>>
>> shellac dot net rises again
>> shellac source
>> shellac again
>> shellac squared
>> shellac r us
>> paddyo shellac
>> the good stuff
>> exquisite flakes
>> flake source
>> flakes r us
>> flake central
>> shellac flakes
>> paddyo flakes
>>
>> Carry on folks, Add to the list.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>I believe O'Deen sold "shellac.net" to Liberon back in 2001.
>

And if you'd actually read the thread, you'd have seen that the
above list of names are suggestions for O'Deen's new website from
which he intends to resume flogging bug do-do.

Me, I like bs.org

scott