Thread: Henry Bros.

Cool - let's hope.

I was talking to them this morning.
and it is definite.
and that i would put it up for them.

do you know why they were a no show at the Sydney show?

That's good - I'll be there to plague them with Q and ( buy a few blades...

Trouble is, will the Melb show be worth going to:confused: Last year it was terrible and a waste of admission money. Its just a big shop with prices no better than you can bargain with directly at the shop. And the biggest dissapointment by far is their is hardly any furniture exibited.

I agree somewhat with Lignum as last year's show, whilst interesting, didn't offer offer much for the punter.

I bought some nice Camphor Laurel, but when trying to buy a couple of 12" T/S blades I simply gave up because of the length of the queue (one register only!)

Nevertheless, it gave me a chance to catch up with some other forumites, to have a lust over a few tools - and as I went on the Friday, it surely beat the usual work stuff

Originally Posted by Lignum

Trouble is, will the Melb show be worth going to:confused: Last year it was terrible and a waste of admission money. Its just a big shop with prices no better than you can bargain with directly at the shop. And the biggest dissapointment by far is their is hardly any furniture exibited.

Agree with you about their being little to no furniture on display. Odd isn't it, how the whole show is based on the premise of furniture and woodwork, yet their is very little on display to show the end product of all the hullabaloo(spelling?:confused: ) Maybe this forum should gather together a collection for display

The thing I like most about it, and what keeps me going back, is the raw products available, like big burls and northern Aus exotics etc...

What does the Henry Bros. stand contain?

I am not trying to be smart (its a Friday night), but I wouldn't expect that they would be able to cater for the large number of bandsaw blades in odd sizes (such as the BP16a at 2950mm). I guess they may also have ts blades?

Anybody seen it before?

Henry bros??? sound like car salesbuggers to me.... and an inferior one at that!

Originally Posted by martrix

Agree with you about their being little to no furniture on display. Odd isn't it, how the whole show is based on the premise of furniture and woodwork, yet their is very little on display to show the end product of all the hullabaloo(spelling?:confused: ) Maybe this forum should gather together a collection for display

The thing I like most about it, and what keeps me going back, is the raw products available, like big burls and northern Aus exotics etc...

Absolutely agree. Pity the organisers are all into selling stalls to anyone (thinking stupid cushions here, and overhead painting), rather than ensuring the right people are invited and have space to make it a top notch show.

Some strict guidelines on who can exhibit sounds like a good idea. I'd rather see an empty stall (or one with a display of woodworking by a club, having been given the space for free), than have to walk past some place begging to "polish my workboots"

I wonder - as a semi literate, and semi organised group, is there some way members of the forum could influence decisions etc of the show organisers? The focus needs to return to woodworking, displaying raw materials, jigs, equipment, tools & consumables through to finish products (comp winners etc), and of course demonstrations.