Thread: Maleny Wood Expo 2018

Any good deals on machinery?

No idea - I wasn't shopping for machinery so very carefully didn't check!

No worries
Will be heading up sometime this long weekend...

I drove down to Maleny earlier in the week from Townsville, sussed out the venue and parking on the Friday, all set to go! 7am next morning on the day of the Expo opening, I ended up in Maleny Hospital with dangerous hypertension. Never had high blood pressure before, in fact quite the opposite with instructions from my GP to keep an eye on it while travelling. BUGGER !! Suspect it was stress from the long drive down. Long weekend down here, cannot find a GP. Sorry to have missed the Expo, so looking forward to it and picking up some nice timber and veneers.
Now in Ipswich for a holiday, nice place, not unlike Penrith in regards distance from the capital and similar socio-economic status, with beautiful gardens and old sandstone buildings. Hoping to see a GP tomorrow somewhere here.

Originally Posted by Dengue

I drove down to Maleny earlier in the week from Townsville, sussed out the venue and parking on the Friday, all set to go! 7am next morning on the day of the Expo opening, I ended up in Maleny Hospital with dangerous hypertension. Never had high blood pressure before, in fact quite the opposite with instructions from my GP to keep an eye on it while travelling. BUGGER !! Suspect it was stress from the long drive down. Long weekend down here, cannot find a GP. Sorry to have missed the Expo, so looking forward to it and picking up some nice timber and veneers.
Now in Ipswich for a holiday, nice place, not unlike Penrith in regards distance from the capital and similar socio-economic status, with beautiful gardens and old sandstone buildings. Hoping to see a GP tomorrow somewhere here.

Bummer, and after travelling so far

I was only able to attend for a couple of hours on Sunday but definitely intend to go next year and spend a whole day there; work permitting. I can honestly say that Maleny urinated all over the last TWWS I attended back in 2016. Easily three times the size and much more room to expand too; and ample free parking! Traffic was rather heavy but I think there was about 3 different shows happening concurrently that weekend.

Managed to get in a few words with Neil before he was again swamped with customers; I also met a couple of big names like Evan Dunstone and Robert Howard in the main pavilion where their Wootha prize entries were exhibited. Wow; the skills shown in all of those entries there were breathtaking.

I picked up a couple of bits of Huon for a project, a head mounted magnifier for really close up work and finally succumbed to Chris Vesper's array of shiny things and came away with a Cohen marking knife in Lace Sheoak. Bloody good job I was only there for a short time; my wallet was trying to break free!

Sigh... 12 months till the next one

Maleny Wood Expo 2018. What a great show.

Managed to spend Saturday and Sunday at the show and could not have wanted for a better couple of days.

Thousands of people on Saturday and a few less on Sunday. A bit over a hundred stall holders and exhibitors. Mostly wood related with support from a good variety of food and coffee stalls. The amount and variety of wood, from huge slabs down to pen blanks was incredible. By the look of the smiling people walking out with great bundles under their arms and dragging loaded trolleys, there were a lot of happy folks.

They had a wonderful setup for the kids with hands-on woodworking classes, boomerang and didgeridoo making, paper and basket making, along with a straw bale maze and wooden toys play areas, just to mention a few. The kids were having a great time.

Heard mentioned that some new people have taken up the organising of the Brisbane Wood Show for next year and have been around a lot of the stall holders at Maleny getting their input and interest for 2019 at a possibly new venue. So that sounds positive.

Will attach a couple of photos of the weekend.

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Now really looking forward to next year.
Cheers, Fred

Originally Posted by Dareen

Maleny Wood Expo 2018. What a great show.

Managed to spend Saturday and Sunday at the show and could not have wanted for a better couple of days.......

Yep you did well, Monday started a lot cooler, drizzle started at around 10 and then the heavier rain after lunch and only got worse with time. Lovely stuff to pack up in it even continued on Tuesday

I went and had a look and was very surprised. It exceeded my expectations by a fair way.

Definately worth the trip.

There wasnt much in the way in terms of machinery or power tools.

Another Townsvillean that made the long drive down. The Expo far exceeded my expectations, lots of HQ timber at quite reasonable prices I thought. Something for everyone, great range of food stalls, and some awesome entertainment.

I would have loved to have gone this year, but alas it wasn’t to be. It’s a long way from Batemans Bay to the Sunny coast. Will be up there in June to see my daughter. So maybe next year. I always try to get to the Sydney and Canberra shows.

I bought this load of timber.
I also bought the Arbotech turbo thing on special and a few finishes.
Someone kicked over a stack of boards my little wife was holding for me so she walked around all day with a swollen toe.

It's a great event. I was thinking that I hope it keeps growing.

On reflection, if it was any bigger I would need 2 days to get around it all and then I'd spend even more. And the bank account can't take the punishment.

I collected business cards from some merchants so I know where to find them if I want more between now and next year.

Now I am trying to find a more efficient way to store the timber and preserve floor space in the workshop.

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My trip to Maleny just got even better; this morning I received and E-mail from John Madden at Wood Dust telling me that I had won 1st prize in the Wood Dust E-mail sign up!

It's one of Evan Dunstone's chair kits; the E-mail say it is a "Waterfall" but after looking at the Dunstone Designs website I think he may have made a minor error as the Waterfall is a stool and not advertised as being available in kit form. The chair kit advertised by DD is an "Alpha" so I expect that is the one I will receive, unless of course Evan was introducing a new product at the show and hasn't released it on his website yet!

I came across this post from 2016 where another forumite was lucky enough to win one of Evan's chair kits; if mine is also an Alpha I'll be able to run a WIP comparing the different chair builds.

I'm absolutely stoked! Without a doubt now the Maleny wood expo has been my Best. Show. Ever!

Originally Posted by Chief Tiff

My trip to Maleny just got even better; this morning I received and E-mail from John Madden at Wood Dust telling me that I had won 1st prize in the Wood Dust E-mail sign up!...

Congrats mate