9/29 .. Woodstock Show Update

Show update 9 29
Show's over ... It was good to see the smiling faces. People were happy, but not throwing money around exactly. I met a few folks who qualified as 'potential clients'. My friend Charley Shackelton said, 'It's like fishing. You never know when you're going to catch the big one'...
Anyway, it's good to get out once in a while ... network a little and see what other people are up to. I had enough good conversations and met enough interesting people there to make it worth the (considerable) effort. So ... here are some pictures of the Guild's booth ...





9/23/09

It's that time of year again .... Time for the Vermont Wood Manufacturers fall fruniture show in Woodstock, Vermont ... I participated in the Guild of Vermont Furnituremakers booth last year and plan to have some stuff there again this year .... Come on by if you get a chance. There are about 40 exhibitors and there will be lots to see .... Click the pictures to enlarge them .... I plan to finish an indoor version of the steel sculpture pictured above ....

Two beautiful matched curly cherry boards

and offer this cherry and steel dining table for sale

I think my bench will be 'finiished'

If I have room, I'll take my redwood console

and the banjo that Will and I finished recently ...

Last years Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers booth

Animal Rhythms

'Animal Rhythms' floor stand mockup

This coming weekend (September 28th and 29th) is the annual Vermont Fine Furniture and Woodworking Show at the Woodstock High School. This year, in conjunction with the show there will be a furniture design contest at the Forest Festival Weekend at the Marsh Billings Rockefeller National Historic Site in Woodstock. The high school will showcase work by individual Vermont furnituremakers as well as a group Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers booth. There will also be demonsrations and talks by some of the guild members, myself included. I'll be talking about the value of adding personalized inlay to your furniture. I will be exhibiting furniture and a portfolio at the Guild booth as well as at the Design Contest at the Marsh Billings Center. I have enetered one of my lounge chairs and also a sculpture I recently made, 'Animal Rhythms' in the design contest.

Four views ... sunlight and shadows moving. The pieces also swivel on their respective wall brackets.

The sculpture is something I created for Open Studio weekend in May after staring at the unpainted pieces in my office for quite a while. People seem to like it and, while this is the original version, I have made a smaller bedroom size copy for a New York client and recently received an order for an outdoor version in painted steel ... I'll be showing it as a floor mounted piece at the show ... the Guild booth is shown below

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Click to enlarge ... The wood burnings on the back wall are also mine

One of my lounge chairs

I've sold a bunch of these chairs and have them scatered throughout my office and home. I find them the perfect reading, lounging, meeting and napping and beer drinking chair. We make a solid mahogany version as well as a less expensive composite version.