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   TomW | Jan 27, 2008 03:29am | #1

   I was there all day bothe days doing marquetry demos at the woodworker's guild of GA booth. I will be there all day sunday as well.

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   bmwz3coupe | Jan 27, 2008 04:00am | #2

   How was the show ?  Good turn out ?  Lots of vendors ?  Worth a 300 mile round trip to see it ?

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   TomW | Jan 27, 2008 04:04am | #3

   I didn't go see any of the vendors really, just stayed in the WW Guild Booth. Good turnout this year. Don't know if I'd drive that far for it but I don't know what your interests or needs are either. I am having a good tome talking to people and giving them an idea of what it takes to do marquetry.  

   Seems like the usual vendors were there. Have no idea if there were any real deals to be had.

   Edited 1/26/2008 8:05 pm ET by TomW

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Jan 27, 2008 06:38am | #5

   Evening Mr. Wilkerson..

   Sorry I missed you at the Atlanta Show today. I dropped by the Ga. WW Guild booth and did not see you a the marquetry section. You perhaps might have taken a break or lunch around that time. But.. I did vote for your excellent chair and ottoman. As soon as I saw it I knew it was yours without reading the tag. You have a knack for those chairs.

   And BTW.. you spoke of marquetry. Was the large chest with the marqueted front yours? I could not get near it as many were surrounding it when I arrived. I just took a detour and looked elsewhere, not even seeing the inside. May not have been yours, but the marquetry on the large doors looked fantastic from the distance I saw it from.

   Again... would loved to have seen you. Are you still with Delta AL or have you gone full time building custom one-offs?

   Regards...

   john thompson

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   TomW | Jan 27, 2008 07:03am | #6

   I didn't do the large chest. That was the work of Ron Peyton, the owner of The Dogwood Institute woodworking school. I was in the back corner of our booth pretty much all day doing marquetry.

   I'm still at Delta and still doing a bit of furniture as well, just not posting much. Thanks for the kind words though.

   Tom 

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Jan 27, 2008 07:25am | #7

   You're quite welcome, Tom. And very deserving words I will add along with your humble-ness. Keep plugging and perhaps I will run into you at another time. I won't be back at the show tomorrow as I picked up a few little odds and ends (knobs.. UHMV.. etc.) today.

   At this stage of the game.. not much I need except a fresh and in-code bottle of glue every month or so. Just finished a bed and about 2/3 home with the first chest of two, so I stay pretty busy also.

   Highest regards to your natural abilty...

   Sarge..

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Jan 27, 2008 06:27am | #4

   I was there between 1 PM and 5 PM.. A lot of the major vendors were not there, but most of the locals.. Peachtree Woodworking.. Redmond and Son Machinery.. Stone Mountain Power Tool.. etc. Could go on there.

   Lee Valley.. Porter Cable.. DeWalt.. Delta.. Laguna.. etc. were there but the show was missing some notables, IMO. The turn-out was excellent, but I though it was one of the smallest vendor turn-outs I have seen for Atlanta in about 15 years. But a note here.. I attend the International Woodworking Show every 2nd year at the World Congress center in August or September. That is the largest show in the World as all vendors around the globe show to strut everything from commercial machines to the home shop. It usually takes me 3 days to see it all as it takes up the entire  World Congress Center and that is huge.

   Decent show IMO, but not worth a 300 mile drive as you don't see any block-buster deals at shows anymore with competition from on-line. And I suspect that is why many vendors just stay home these days and hit the Big Show (IWF) in Atlanta and the next year in Las Vegas. Those are the two Show of All Shows.

   Sorry.. I missed Tom Wilkerson who just posted to you. I was by the Georgia WW Guild booth and he may have been at lunch. Tom is a class AAA WW and has probably the most talent I've seen come along in many a moon and that expands 36 years now.

   Regards...

   Sarge..