John Burke Sharpening System

[Ted Owen]

I am interested in a John Burke Sharpening System for carving tools but have been unable to connect to his web site,

http://216.106.57.170/~burkes/product1.html.

Does anyone know whether it's just a web site problem? Is John OK? Googling does not provide an updated web address.

Best, Ted

[Mike K Wenzloff]

Without trying to figure out why Burke's site is doen (maybe a DNS problem), I did find that Little Shavers purportedly sells the Burke system:

http://www.littleshavers.com/CatalogPage26.html

Take care, Mike

[Mike K Wenzloff]

OK, I had to poke around a little.

The "address" you gave for the Burke system was to Western Woodcarvers. They have an actual site...which appears down:
http://www.westernwoodcarvers.com/

But according to DomainMonger the site is paid/registered into 2008. So it may be the site is temporarily down.

Contact info from DM:
Administrative Contact:
NA
John Burke (ww12618@NAVIX.NET)
402-623-4292
Fax: 402-623-4208
Western Woodcarvers
868 Co.Rd. 13
Ithaca, NE 68033

Take care, Mike

[Brad Knabel]

Hey Ted,
I don't have an answer as to why the site is down. But I found that it was been archived pretty regularly on the Wayback Internet Archive until April of last year. If you follow the link below there is a phone number and e-mail address to contact the Burke's. (It's the same as Mike W. posted.)

http://web.archive.org/web/20060321161937/216.106.57.170/~burkes/

Be patient - the wayback machine has always been on the pokey side, but the page should eventually load.

BTW - how have you been? I haven't been able to make a WPW or Turners Anonymous meeting in ages. I've got a 6 year old and between T-Ball and my wife's RN schedule my Saturdays are pretty much spoken for. I hope all is well.

[Rick Young WY]

Ted,
I clicked on the address you gave and it went right to his site and shows a pic of his machine to sharpen with.

Give it another shot.

Rick

[Ted Owen]

Just ordered a unit. Mrs. Burke was making them up as we spoke.

I see the web site is working again. Thanks again.

Best, Ted