Thread: Sydney working with wood show

Have to say the highlight for me on Saturday...apart from seeing Mr Wongs exceptional chair and Tony's lovely box in the flesh , Was having a freindly chat with Colen Clenton, I took along a square that I had bought from him a while ago, that I discovered had a slight fault...he replaced it with brand newy... no questions asked. Got to respect someone who stands by their product like that

Although enjoyable... this years wasnt quite as much fun as previous shows, as pocket money this year was down a little .


cheers
BD

Never fear, I went back on Sunday with some friends and managed to leave a fair bit more $$$ (and an expensive hiking water bottle) behind.

I saw Wongo's chair, but I couldn't see a 1st place getter in his category - was it all a fix to dud Wongo? Some very nice stuff on display and a lot of it seemed to be deemed 'unworthy' of a place in the competition.

Now I get to look forwards to a Hitachi 12" SCMS arriving in several weeks.

I found the Show much more enjoyable than previous years.
There were fewer numbers which gave a better chance to say 'hello' to our great exhibitors and talk about their tools.
Several said that while numbers were down that sales were good. I hope they had a good show.
I found a couple of pieces of wet timber that I needed.
MWE forced me to buy a new table saw. I am looking forward to their delivery soon.

Good to talk to Scott and congratulate him on his prize. It is a very fine rocker.
I got a free gift from Neil. I am not sure where to hang the Tasmanian calender Neil but it does generate some interesting comments.

Now I have a few days to reorganise the shed again.

Originally Posted by bsrlee

Never fear, I went back on Sunday with some friends and managed to leave a fair bit more $$$ (and an expensive hiking water bottle) behind.

I saw Wongo's chair, but I couldn't see a 1st place getter in his category - was it all a fix to dud Wongo? Some very nice stuff on display and a lot of it seemed to be deemed 'unworthy' of a place in the competition.

Now I get to look forwards to a Hitachi 12" SCMS arriving in several weeks.

the First Prize (Furniture and Boxes) went to a table which was standing by itself in a poorly lit area- odd? It was a nice work.

Didn't we all enjoy the Laksa Bob?

The annual laksa fest was well received Given that I only partake at the wood show it is an expensive meal. Costs me hundreds of dollars each time

Originally Posted by fletty

I left just before I needed to find a doctor who would remove and sell a kidney for me!

LOL, that made me just about snort my coffee through my nose!

I experienced the opposite of that situation: I had to leave before I spent enough to cause GSWMBO to remove my kidney for me

Well, I managed to get to the show on Saturday - for all of about 2 hours

As I had to hurry around in that short time, and my main priority at the time was buying a few things that I really wanted, at the end of the day I went home and realized just how much I missed:

• The few minutes of Roger Gifkin's seminar I saw was enough to really want to see the whole thing and some of the other seminars (particularly scraper sharpening)...
• I also saw the end of a Domino demonstration, enough to drool...
• I got to see some very nice work on display (including Wongo's chair) but would ave really liked some more time in there
• Finally I got to meet a couple of Forumites - Wongo and Mirboo (nice to meet you both!) - but only briefly, and didn't see any cap-wearers - probably as I was basically head-down tool-inspecting

So I'll know better next year - make the time (somehow) to look at the stands I don't know about, go to the seminars and try to meet a few more people.

Still, I did get a few nice things... couple of small tools, an Incra jig, and a few small pieces of wood for boxmaking (although my GSWMBO cannot believe that I payed for wood!)

Originally Posted by AlexS

Congratulations to Wongo and Contrebasse for their prizewinning efforts, and to Stirlo for his new purchase.

it was great to meet you alex!

i had a great sunday at the show. got there around 10:30 and left around 4:45. met alot of forumites including Alexs, wongo ( congrats again on the chair!), neil and pauline, froggie40, brslee, baxter, scultptured box, jim carrol, and quite a few others. i also saw poppa and his kids around.

i was planning on spending around $1150 and actually spent just under that! i got some pen kits and snake skins from brett at addictive pen kits, some stuff from neil and pauline ( thanx guys for the stuff at the end!!!), a new BANDSAW ( bas 350 ) from carbatec, a new drill press from gasweld (a great little bargain for $200 ) some CA from gpw. i think thats it, not sure now.

the demo's were great. me and my dad watched stan make a few cricket bats, that was pretty cool. richard raffan was outstanding as i expected. and the few others i saw looked cool and informative.

the work on display was awesome. i saw the double bass and wongo's chair and was amazed. my dad now thinks scroll saw work is cool after seeing the scrolled house. i didnt see tony wards box, i couldnt find it.

anyway i had a great day...now i just got to fing some time to set up the new BS and DP.

cheers

Only being new to WWF its taking me some time to wade through some of the great postings glad I found this one, although I have checked out the forum for some time prior to joining .....what a fool should have done it 2 years ago when first I learmed of it

So by the looks of things many went to WWWS I went on the Friday just as the sky opened and opening time didnt leave till after 3 how the wife put up with being there that long no idea but we didn't leave empty handed.

If some of you were in the wet, lined up and saw a fellow sitting covered in a yellow rain poncho that was me.
Quite a few offered me help while I was waiting for wife to get tickets thanks............and the same who spoke to me during the day.