Thread: Sydney Wood Show Impressions

As you came in the main door there was a Visitor Guide for everyone to take.

On the font page it says:

"Win a Drill
Visit the Festool stand to win
a cordless drill - competition
held every 2 hours throughout
the show."

I guess Geza didn't get a copy

Originally Posted by VEK TOOLS

The only festool giveaway promo i heard of was the one if you spent over $500 on the VEK TOOLS & F&K TOOLS stands you went into the draw to win a Festool cordless.

so do you know who won this promo?
can you publish the name here?

Yes, 4 winners per day for 3 days so it should be 12 winners in total.

First in maths since 1970
It pays to be good at maths.You been telling us for a while--- now we believe it
Who Are The 12 Winners? Who Was Running This?

Out of hundreds of members we could only manage 30 replies surely more than that attended

I got there Saturday morning in the p#ssing rain. I got the tools I was after; a wooden jointing plane - used, a reamer, a fine stone, etc and some Sollies blackwood. I thought a lot of the timber was overpriced, a guitar blank for $170 left me very cold and it wasnt moving from what I could see.

My favourite section is the competitions and this year was a ripper. Some of the segmented turnings were stunning. There were some cool instruments and the boats are always fabby.

Originally Posted by Pheonix

Out of hundreds of members we could only manage 30 replies surely more than that attended

I know what you mean pheonix. On the scale model sub forum , Over 700 views.And only 23 votes
People looked at the poll for scale models but didn't vote.
I know you voted Pheonix.Thanks for that.

Originally Posted by AUSSIE

I know what you mean pheonix. On the scale model sub forum , Over 700 views.And only 23 votes
People looked at the poll for scale models but didn't vote.
I know you voted Pheonix.Thanks for that.

Maybe the mods can tell us but it might be search engines indexing. This forum comes high up on all the Google woodie type searches I do,

Originally Posted by ian

so do you know who won this promo?
can you publish the name here?

just sent an email to festool to find out who was the winner

Originally Posted by VEK TOOLS

just sent an email to festool to find out who was the winner

I don't think you should feel responsible for what was advertised as a Festool competition - the folks at VEK Tools should be congratulated for donating the "Wheel Barrow of Tools" prize which was a beauty.

I do however think it would be good to hear from the organisers why a competition was advertised that 12 Festool cordless drills would be given away - when this was clearly false.

Cheers,
Geoff

I have been to the show over the years in Adelaide, Canberra and a few times Sydney.

Just happen to be at those places.

However this Sydney show was average; went Sunday arvo, crowd was very low I thought.

The exhibitors seems to have been down in number and size.

The timber seems to really have increased in price over the years.

I remember once seeing chainsaw's for sale and milling machines not this year, except they had the lucas machine.

Only a few kids around.

Usually only go once every couple of years.

It was a sacrafice to get there and maybe too great for the show.

Cheers

Pulpo

Originally Posted by Pulpo

I have been to the show over the years in Adelaide, Canberra and a few times Sydney.

Just happen to be at those places.

However this Sydney show was average; went Sunday arvo, crowd was very low I thought.

The exhibitors seems to have been down in number and size.


Cheers

Pulpo

hi Puplo

what do you think of the canberra shows compared to the sydney shows, as after the result of sydney this year we are considering going to the Canberra show, some people say it is 1/5 of the size of sydney would you agree?

Originally Posted by VEK TOOLS

hi Puplo

what do you think of the canberra shows compared to the sydney shows, as after the result of sydney this year we are considering going to the Canberra show, some people say it is 1/5 of the size of sydney would you agree?

i go to sydney, canberra and melbourne shows ... i think 1/5 is probably an exaggeration ... it is a significantly smaller show but not that much smaller i don't think

it is, obviously, your commercial call on whether you go to shows but i offer a few observations not intended to influence you one way or the other (i am also a visitor to canberra on, about, a monthly basis):


1. before i became a member of the forum and before seeing you at the sydney show, i had never heard of your business

2. there are only a few businesses in canberra who are in the same general market as yourselves and perhaps only one of them is specifically a competitor

3. of those four, only two went to the last canberra show (i think) ... one seems to me like it is on its last legs as a business and the other is an up and coming business but is probably in a different segment of the market to yourselves


regards david

It was about 3 or 4 years ago I was at the Canberra show.

Excluding the second hall at the Sydney show the size was about 1/3 less in Canberra but the number of exhibitors was smaller.

My memory of the Canberra show was better than this years Sydney.

Pulpo