I just got back from a great weekend at Woodworking in America, Popular Woodworking Magazine’s yearly show. This year, it was located in Covington, Ky just across the river from Cincinnati, Oh.
I spent much of my time in the market place where various vendors and organizations have setup booths to display the tools and/or pieces they have available. I got the opportunity to try out tools from Scott Meeks, Bad Axe, Nice Ash, and many others. While I will enjoy the tools I have purchased, including a Gramercy Rasp, and Grr-rip block from Micro jig, this show was all about who I spent my time.
The group I spent much of my time with is the great guys from Modern Woodworkers Association. These guys made an already great show an absolute blast! They are fun to be around, and they all have a great passion for woodworking and bringing it to others, both in the online and offline communities. Keep your eye out for their next pod cast about WIA, as I was one of the guys they interviewed at the show! As a note, the title of this post is an inside joke with the MWA guys.
Another great group I got spend some time hanging out with is the Wood Talk Online crew, including Marc Spagnoulo of The Wood Whisperer, Matt Vanderlist (aka the Pod King!) of Matt’s Basement Workshop and Shannon Rogers of Renaissance Woodworking. The work that these guys have done in the woodworking community have truly raised them to celebrity status, and getting to meet them in person was really an awesome experience!
The folks at Popular Woodworking magazine once again did a great job bringing in quality vendors as well as quality presenters. It is very obvious that they listen to the woodworking community as a whole, and do what they can to produce a show that will provide something for everyone who attends! I am already counting down the days of next year’s show!
Glad you had a good time — and thank you!
You are welcome, and thank you for the work you do for the woodworking community!
Wonderful to have seen you there Mike. So glad everyone had such a great time.
It was great seeing you there as well! I know as soon as the dates for next year’s show is announced, I will start planning for it!
I’m bummed that I didn’t get to see that giant plane that Roy is using! Is it real? Or one of those bird houses that looks like a plane?
It was not real in the respect that it has storage drawers on either end and the iron and breaker were made from wood. Rumor had that Ron Hock, is going to make real ones for it.
Are you famous? 😉