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    To help those who are struggling to visualise this new event in the Australian woodworking universe, there have so far been theatre panel events with Australian and overseas woodworking STARS, theatre events with Australian and overseas woodworking tool makers, master classes with legendary local and overseas woodworkers and, starting today, a woodworking Fair at Bungendore Showground ..... and all of this held concurrently with Studio Furniture 2018 (SF18) in the Bungendore Gallery!
    Our day started with a breakfast calculated to overcome chronic fatigue syndrome and then the short drive to Bungendore Showground. Those who have attended other comparable events, have said it was like a smaller Maleny, the same family appeal as Illawarra and “like Sydney WWWS used to be..... but with a BAR”. For me, the special bit was bumping shoulders with the likes of Thomas Lie-Nielsen, Matt Kenny and all of those names with which avid readers of FWW have become familiar. I also got to play with the brand new panto-router.
    Bungendore Showground is a delightful rural venue but with the benefit of being only a short distance from Canberra.
    Here are a few pics of the fair...
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    We saw lots of new products and equipment, some old faces, legends of our hobby and industry and enjoyed the vibe before deciding to head in to town to see SF18 ....... AND THEN THE STORM STRUCK! It was a ripper, thunder, lightning and 20 mm of rain in 10 minutes..... we only JUST got into the pub in time!

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    The storm and pub pizza soon abated and we headed up to the gallery to see SF18. No photo can do justice to the fabulous body of work in the exhibition...

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    Nor do justice to the regular gallery display....

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    .... but I’ve tried?
    Unfortunately, as we headed back towards home in the afternoon, the view from the car window...

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    .... did not bode well for the remaining day of this exceptional event.
    Our congratulations and thanks go out to the organisers but particularly our wishes go to them for a better day tomorrow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pat View Post
    I wonder if Carbatec has the new jaws for the Titan chucks with them?

    I don't think it is a place to sell everything a retail outlet has, this show appears to be more about the people rather than retailers. There are retailers there, but it's not a "Timber and Working with Wood Show".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Just George View Post
    I don't think it is a place to sell everything a retail outlet has, this show appears to be more about the people rather than retailers. There are retailers there, but it's not a "Timber and Working with Wood Show".
    No, but I had to ask.

    I enjoyed the show, but I kept running into a group of Hooligans, even in the storied streets of Bungendore

    Hopefully Uncle Al will have more pics to post when he returns home later in the week, being on a weekend away with his wife and friends . . .
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    As mentioned earlier I attended Matt Kenney's kumiko class on Thursday, and went to the show yesterday with my young family.

    The classes were great, I also wanted to do the inlay course with Vic Tesolin but it booked out while I was thinking about it. I'm really hoping the classes continue next year, it's a great part of the formula for this new festival. They're what I've always wished the 'traditional' shows have had.

    There were large amounts of people from interstate who came to the courses - as far away as Perth so this is a sign of a winning formula.

    The festival itself was great. The best one I've attended in a long time. Someone mentioned it wasn't retail focused, but from what I saw and bought, the traders all had great ranges and quantities of stock and were all looking very busy (it's also the most I've spent at a woodshow in the past 10 years).

    It also made a change from paying $8 for a bucket of soggy cold hot ships. The range of good food made the family happy, and the activities for the kids made it an easy day out for the family.

    The only 'downside' could be the regional location. But that doesn't seem to hinder Maleny, and by the number of cars in the carpark yesterday it didn't hinder Wooddust. The location could be a draw card - make it a day or whole weekend out for the family. And if you still need even more inspiration, then Bungendore Wood Gallery just up the road will surely give you your fix!

    I can't wait to see this grow - I really want to use their onsite campsites to fill up 2 days of woodshow fun!

    So in short, I loved it. It's a fresh format, and for a 1st year to show to attract that many vendors (some who have brushed the traditional shows) and visitors, and 5 or 6 US faces, the organisers have done very well - I hope they get everything they want out of it.

    P. S. After watching my wife in the axe throwing competition, I'm more cautious of her.....

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    I wandered down to Wood Dust show yesterday and met up with the usual suspects. As Fletty said, the show has a very good vibe to it, something to do with being out in the country I suppose. When I first entered the show I was very pleased to see my name on a lovely piece of Rosewood next to a plank of Crows Ash which had been bought by someone named Brett. Unfortunately, I managed to leave it behind whilst heading for the car to just beat the rain. As it turned out, it wouldn't have fitted into my car, maybe Brett or one of his mates might have picked it up for me.

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    Most of the following photos were taken fairly before the crowd arrived, but the venue never looked busy as there was so much room between displays and activities.

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    I have some more photos but these few have taken over 2 hours to load up. Might be a problem with the motel internet connection, I'll have another try this evening.

    Alan...
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    There were comments from a certain person, that it was the shortest distance he had gone into a wood show before his wallet opened up and he brought stuff . . . 20 meters is the record now
    Pat
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    Quote Originally Posted by fletty View Post
    We left the gallery (no Pat, we were not ejected, it was just a misunderstanding between the gallery management and myself?) and wandered around the village for a while. A decision to partake of antipasto back at the AirBnB was only mildly interrupted by a visit to the Showground and Lark Hill winery. After lunch, we headed off to the Australian War Memorial (AWM). It is, and hopefully always will be, the most moving of all experiences. Fence Furniture found and placed a red poppy at his Great Uncle’s memorial and we spent a lot of time wandering around a few of the exhibits. It is simply too big, and too intense, to see all of it in one visit. I explained to the group that I had something special to show them and took them to a photograph of my own father (kneeling on the left)......

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    ..... which resulted in ANOTHER outbreak of chronic fatigue syndrome.
    In the Afghanistan Hall, Groeneaj showed us where he served and it is so comforting to know that Australia is still in safe hands. We continued to wander....

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    AND, just to prove that I am NOT a total aeroplane freak.....

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    .... here is some sort of truck and a big gun under a Spitfire!
    We left the Museum...

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    .... asked Simpson for a lift....

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    ... and headed back to the Airbnb for a well deserved meal of left-over antipasto. We have spent the night in training for tomorrow’s REAL woodwork market event and meeting up with Pat, Uncle Al and royflatmate .... plus any others who might make the journey!
    Thank you Alan for the Australian War Memorial photos...
    Our extended family was there one year ago today the 21st October to remember and honour our great grandfather Harry Fourro with a Poppy in the Wall of Remembrance as he died on the Western Front 100 years ago 21/10/1917; something only unearthed by a cousin doing family tree research.
    We will remember them, Lest we forget!
    Next month on the 11th of the eleventh is the 100 years since the Armistice's!
    Cheers, Peter

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    This was the first time I had been to the War Memorial for (too) many years. As a boy I had models of all the WWII aircraft hanging from my bedroom ceiling, including the mighty Lancaster.

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    We found my Great Uncle Walter (1st Battalion) who was killed crossing No Man's Land at Flanders in March 1918. He had a long war - he was landed at Gallipolli on the original Anzac Day in 1915. Difficult to imagine the effect that three full years of such a brutal war would have upon him. He had survived a gas attack but it left him with a wracking cough that proved to be his undoing. As he and his offsider were crawling across NML he coughed, and spotlights and machine guns found him. His offsider survived to tell the tale.

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    The Timber & Trade Show was excellent. Plenty of space, but also good to see crowded shoulders around some of the demonstrators. The only problem with having it at a semi-outdoor venue can be the weather, and by the time we had had our fill there was a monster storm brewing, and apparently it is set to rain all day today.

    Only the organisers know for sure, but I would have to declare it a huge success, particularly for a first effort. I didn't do any classes (would love to have) but the whole format of classes, lectures, interviews and finishing with a Trade show where all the stars from the lectures and classes were present and just mingling with the crowd is an excellent idea.

    I spent a good 20-30 minutes talking and listening to "Mac", the Panto-Router guy. This is a great machine, and was very well demonstrated by Mac. About $2575, and it appears that a local agent has now been appointed.

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    Looks like fun, just find the name a bit disturbing

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    Looks like fun, just find the name a bit disturbing
    Nah, it's all good Bob. All the dust was visible - certainly I didn't see any that wasn't.
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    It was a good day out, though it got pretty soggy in the end. I drove up from Melbourne on Friday arvo after work, stayed in a hotel overnight and headed into the show on Satdy morning. I really liked the layout. It's pretty common to try to stack everyone on top of everyone else, but the organisers did really well to resist that and created multiple different areas. I'll probably head back out there next year. I slapped together a quick video which I shot with my GoPro. There was much more at the show than what I captured, but I really do suck at social media stuff. I got a pretty good example of what the storm was actually like, wasn't just plain jane rain. It was game ending rain!
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    Was that a demonstration of Bosch's Reaxx safety system?
    regards from Alberta, Canada

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    It was the Sawstop Jobsite saw. Dave tried all day but couldn't cut through the sausage.

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