First of all,
A big thank you is in order for several local clubs for participating in our event this year.
NCWoodworker.net - Great demo's - Worksharp, Penturning, and WOW! AWESOME CLOCK Ted! Also, from my understanding - many NEW signups for the club and tons of entries for the fundraising raffle! This is a good thing right?
Western Piedmont Woodworkers - beautiful display of finished products and many new members to teach the art of woodworking.
Carolina Mountain Woodturners - the Turning for Learing Mobile lab - one of the true remarkable builders of woodturners in that through their time and expertise, folks are taught woodturning that would never before have the nerve to try. MOST IMPORTANT - young people are encouraged to participate, which btw everytime I came in the room I noticed there were several young people and women!
North Carolina Woodturners Association - this club is one of the oldest turning clubs in the State of NC and has been instrumental in 100's if not 1000's of woodturners being taught to get more in tune with the craft of woodturning. By the way, Scott - Awesome way to peel an apple....for those of you that missed it - very interesting! Thanks for all of your help!
Klingspor's Woodworking Shop and our staff truly value the non-profit clubs throughout NC because we feel that the local clubs are the best way for non-woodworkers, true DIY'ers, beginners, industrial arts students, etc. can learn the art of woodworking and fall in love with it like most of you on NCWOODWORKER.NET have already.
The show was a great success in that since the beginning, we wanted to offer a place for woodworkers, carvers, turners, and dabblers to come together and talk woodworking. We had 5 industrial arts classes from local high schools come thru to see what products are available and to talk to experts in the woodworking community. We had over 500 of the most beautiful woodcarvings that you will ever see under one roof. I HOPE YOU took time to go thru the carving hall. Did I mention Ted's Clock? Wow!
During all of the planning and work to bring about this event, we always hope that the folks that take valuable time out of their busy lives to come feel it worthwhile to visit Hickory and find good deals and have fun. By the way, the apples this year, as some of you have mentioned, were FANTASTIC. The staff was joking that we were creating a hazard in the local sanitation department with all of the apples that were being consumed........
As for all events of this size there were some hiccups. We "frisked" people- checked all bags as best as we could - at the exit doors due to some theft issues in the past.
We tried to offer many awesome deals for all that came, however I am sure that we didn't have the best prices on EVERY item that is available out there but we surely hope we didn't "rip anybody off" during our event.
We also try to have most of the "A" items at our show but sometimes due to vendors not participating, space, manpower, etc we don't take all of our offerings to the event as it would be impossible to manage and therefore no show could be had.
Thank you for reading and most important thank you for coming to our show.
Coleman Fourshee
11-02-2009, 11:15 PM
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