THIS IS ROCKET SCIENCE
The last week of the current Woodworking Show season took me to the capitol of all that is space exploration, Huntsville, Alabama. The drive in from the airport would pass within sight of Space Camp and be too much of an enticement to pass up. Read more
Categories: Tool News and New Tools, Woodworking Show Reports | Tags: Huntsville, Jim Heavey, Space Camp, The Woodworking Shows, VSP Specialty Printers, WOOD Magazine Traveling Ambassador
1 Comment
A DOWN HOME EDUCATION
The Woodworking Show was in Houston this last weekend and those in attendance were treated to a number of great educational opportunities and some interesting booths and woodworking projects. If you live in the area and you couldn’t attend, you missed a good one. Read more
Categories: Interesting Woodworkers We've Met, Woodworking Show Reports | Tags: Center for Essential Education, Denis Moras, Frank Strazza, Jeremy Grub, Jim Heavey, Lone Star Chapter of Society of American Period Furniture Makers, The Woodworking Shows, WOOD Magazine Traveling Ambassador, Woodworkers Club of Houston
No Comments
A CAPITOL IDEA
I have been looking forward to this weekend for quite a while. Combining a trip to Washington DC and spending time with some great woodworkers in nearby Chantilly, Virginia would make for an interesting 4 days. I wasn’t disappointed. Read more
Categories: Interesting Woodworkers We've Met, Woodworking Show Reports | Tags: Barry Ingram, Dave Heller, DC, Jim Heavey, Joel Jacobson, Newseum, The Woodworking Shows, Washington, Washington Woodworkers Guild, White House, WOOD Magazine Traveling Ambassador
No Comments
Weekend in Tampa
It would be hard to picture a more perfect weekend in mid March. The Woodworking Show traveled to Tampa and we were treated to sunny days with temperatures in the low to mid seventies. What made this even more memorable was knowing that Chicago would get 3 inches of snow while I was gone. Read more
Categories: Interesting Woodworkers We've Met, Woodworking Show Reports | Tags: American Association of Woodturners, Jim Heavey, Tampa, The Shop Monkey, Tom Iorvino, tomsworkbench.com, WOOD Magazine Traveling Ambassador
1 Comment
Spring Forward
The Woodworking Shows went east again this last week. The venue was in the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Situated about an hour south of Dulles Airport, the drive down on Thursday took me through some very hilly and beautiful terrain. This almost idyllic countryside belies the history of the area. Read more
Categories: Interesting Woodworkers We've Met, Woodworking Show Reports | Tags: Acanthus Workshop, Charles Bender, Civil War, Fredericksburg, Jim Heavey, The School at Annapolis Woodworks, Troy Beall, WOOD Magazine Traveling Ambassador
No Comments
Take A Ride On The Reading
The Woodworking Show moved to Reading, Pennsylvania this last weekend. I flew into the airport in Philadelphia even though it’s about 60 miles east of the venue. The airfare is cheaper and there are more flights to Philly as well as the ability to fly home on Sunday evening. It also afforded the ability to visit one of the more historical cities in this country’s beginning. Read more
Categories: Interesting Woodworkers We've Met, Woodworking Show Reports | Tags: Declaration of Independance, Geoffrey Noden, Jim Heavey, Kirk DeHeer, Liberty Bell, National Historical Park, Reading Pennsylvania, Ron Brown, WOOD Magazine Traveling Ambassador
1 Comment
A Bird In The Hand
The Woodworking Shows traveled to the Detroit area this weekend just a short drive from Detroit Metro Airport in Taylor, Michigan. The exhibit hall shares space with a giant permanent public market in the Gibraltar Trade Center. Woodworkers found a place where they could find not only the newest in tools and accessories but could also get a tattoo, body piercing, and an area rug all while dining on a hot dog and sampling mini donuts. In spite of all those temptations, we had what the attendees really wanted. Read more
Categories: Interesting Woodworkers We've Met, Woodworking Show Reports | Tags: Bird of Prayer, Gary Bityk, Gibraltar Trade Center, Jim Heavey, Metro Carvers, Silvano Salvador, WOOD Magazine Traveling Ambassador
No Comments
The Garden State of New Jersey
The Woodworking Shows split this week and I was on my way to Somerset, New Jersey. This is a venue I’ve been to many times so you’d think I should remember how to get there. Read more
Categories: Interesting Woodworkers We've Met, Woodworking Show Reports | Tags: Acanthus Workshop, Atlantic Shore Woodturners, Central Jersey Woodworkers Association, Frank Klaus, Jim Heavey, PCW, Teardrop Memorial, The Woodworking Shows, WOOD Magazine Traveling Ambassador, Zurab Trereteli
1 Comment
The Spirit of St. Louis
Many of us older woodworkers, when we hear “The Spirit of St. Louis”, conger up thoughts of Jimmy Stuart’s movie portrayal of Charles Lindberg’s historic flight or maybe we think about the airplane itself. But on my most recent trip there for the Woodworking Shows, I found a few more things that could also define that spirit. Read more
Categories: Interesting Woodworkers We've Met, Woodworking Show Reports | Tags: Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, City Museum of St. Louis, Jim Heavey, KTRS radio, McGraw Milhaven, Mosaic tiling, Spirit of St. Louis, St. Louis, Tiffany, WOOD Magazine Traveling Ambassador
1 Comment
Hog Heaven
At just about two hours away, the last show within easy driving distance is Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I know that there is an old ad that said that Schlitz is the beer that made Milwaukee famous, but I had another destination in mind and I wasn’t disappointed when I arrived.
Less than 15 minutes from the venue is the Harley-Davidson Motor Company maker of one of the more iconic symbols combining the American free spirit and a love of the open road. I think that ever since I saw the movie Easy Rider I’ve had this not so secret fantasy about being a shorter Italian version of Peter Fonda. 
I know that Marlon Brando rode one in a movie and that Elvis owned and gave away many of these beautiful machines but I could identify with Fonda. Maybe it was the hair. I do have the sunglasses. Read more
