I'm 27 as the time of this account request (2009), and have been playing video games basically all of my life, and Street Fighter since I first saw the original arcade game at my local pizza place back when it released. I didn't play much after SSF2T, but eventually I got into Guilty Gear, and now, I'm back into playing SF IV, and eagerly awaiting BlazBlue. I'm currently in the process of building my own custom arcade stick. I'm hoping to start a "tech talk" section of this wiki, and move a lot of the information contained in the 'tech talk' section of the site into wiki format that can be expanded upon by the experts. The posts at the beginning of stickies are often outdated, and questions repeatedly answered, but buried again in all the noise while the top posts aren't updated. I'm hoping we can have answers and information added here, about padhacking, wood working, stick parts, etc.