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01-30-24, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by TenGrainBread

There are also more custom framebuilders currently than in the history of this country.

CITATION NEEDED and maybe so but obviously none of them deemed it prudent to preserve one of the best, longest running ones so here we are.

So let's not attribute Waterford's closing to the work ethic of the current generation.

I didn't, you did so lets not put words in my mouth, I was simply piggy backing off Johns comment as I'm a big fan of that quote, it wasn't directly meant the way you saw it.

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