Thread: Shrinking a plough-plane

Matt, I spoke to one of the organisers & it's a straight cancellation, not a postponement. I think the current plan is to hope for more normal conditions next year. Yeah, I'm disappointed, but that's life - I've had worse setbacks & survived....

Paul, I was hoping at first that cancelling the woodshow didn't mean cancelling the competition, but was soon put straight on that score. I guess we have to be realistic about it - the people who put up the $$s for the prize money want maximum bang for their buck(s) (some chuck in a pretty hefty amount). Having the comp behind closed doors with winners announced via social media/magazines/whatever would give them a bit of exposure but maybe not as much as they get from the crowds that attend the show.

Never mind, I'm not throwing the toolbox in the bin just yet, I'm writing a short article on it for AWR, so you'll get to see it in a bit more detail eventually.....

Ian

Originally Posted by IanW

Camelot, I used the term jokingly. I think there are still plenty of folks left in the country who are capable of the finest work, but the demand for high-end furniture is not limitless. I know a couple of blokes who apprenticed as cabinetmakers, who ended up very competent journeymen, but the need to earn a living saw them mostly banging kitchen & bathroom cupboards together....
Cheers,

Your comment did make me smile for the reasons I mentioned in my reply, but I wouldn't say Cabinetmaker is meant to be a term, it should stand for Craftsman, a person capable of producing high-end furniture, so these kitchen manufactures should advertise for flat pack assembly people, because everything just comes off the CNC machine ready to knock together and leave the Cabinetmaker out of it. You are right there isn't many high-end furniture businesses, I worked for Atelier back in the early 1980's and they made some really nice office furniture and offered built-in solutions for their clients, so working for them you were a Cabinetmaker. Cheers