Well another AWFS show is in the books for me.
Thoughts...? Random thoughts
- Great to see people out having a good time!
- Great to introduce my sons to the show/industry
- The new hall is amazing
- SCM has more money than...
- Got to put many faces to names.
- Fate only allowed for one day at the show - wish we could have done another day.
- There were a bunch of show specials - more than I expected based on supply chain issues.
- Martin stuff is just amazing - as always.
- Altendorf F45 is better than I remembered, and cheaper than I thought too...$35k
- I may make the jump to surfprep (or one of the differently branded clones) from festool - very interesting...
- Got 3 Tenryu blades for the new saw - great show deal. And they have me a referral for sharpening that is "more" local to me.
- There were less large CNC setups than the last show (from my memory)
- Grex makes a large spray gun.? Top feed, but runs off a compressor...? interesting...? love their small guns for fixes.
- Felder had the PCS demo - I was very impressed.
- No Shapers at the Felder booth - bummer.
- I did not see any shapers from other brands - looks like an F900z or F700z for me.
- There were some absences.? but not a lot.
- We met April Wilkerson- I expected a bigger entourage...? she was nice.
- Found a new website to sell woodworking machinery with NO fees...? gonna give it a try.
- no one was selling magic extra square feet for my shop.
- lots of great debate around how to do things differently -which is why I really like to go to these shows.
Everyone was talking delays- not just Felder.? ?
There were a ton of friendly people there, next time these should be a FOG meetup!
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