They just announced that Handworks 2020 is on!!!! It will be in Amana, IA again on Sept. 4th & 5th, 2020.
For those that haven’t been there before, this is one of (if not THE) gathering of hand tool manufacturers in the world. High end tool makers from all over the world are there showing their wares, letting you touch them and feel them, and of course, buy them. 

https://amanacolonies.com/things-to-do/events/special-events/hand-works/

My sister only lives 1/2 hour from there.  I'll have to make plans to visit with her in Sept. next year.  Thanks Gene.

 

Danl

Man Gene, that sounds wonderful! The Woodworking Shows of hand tools! All the cool stuff happens in the Midwest and east coast.

1 hour ago, Danl said:

My sister only lives 1/2 hour from there.  I'll have to make plans to visit with her in Sept. next year.  Thanks Gene.

 

Danl

That's great that your sis lives that close, Dan. Ive read that most of the motels/hotels in the area are already booked.

 

1 hour ago, John Morris said:

Man Gene, that sounds wonderful! The Woodworking Shows of hand tools! All the cool stuff happens in the Midwest and east coast.

Ain't that the truth? There are some shows in Vegas every so often, though. 

2 hours ago, John Morris said:

Man Gene, that sounds wonderful! The Woodworking Shows of hand tools! All the cool stuff happens in the Midwest and east coast.

Too bad your other half doesn’t live in Boston anymore, you could hit the east coast stuff  

On 7/23/2019 at 12:10 PM, Artie said:

Too bad your other half doesn’t live in Boston anymore, you could hit the east coast stuff  

@John Morris, Move Courtland back and you can go! 

On 7/23/2019 at 10:10 AM, Artie said:

Too bad your other half doesn’t live in Boston anymore, you could hit the east coast stuff  

 

18 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

@John Morris, Move Courtland back and you can go! 

I moved him back to Boston, hand tool conventions here I come!

Back in the sixties when I was selling Mac hand tools out of a used Frito Lay tater chip step van we went to those hand tool shows....Most interesting shows ever....Great place to get set up buying for resale direct from the manufacture....There are a lot of very small manufactures like with two or three people only in a company that we bought from. And if we hadn't have gone to those shows it would have been hard to find them or even knew that stuff existed.

On 7/23/2019 at 10:17 AM, John Morris said:

Man Gene, that sounds wonderful! The Woodworking Shows of hand tools! All the cool stuff happens in the Midwest and east coast.

Yeah, Woodworking Shows are known to cause cancer in the state of California.

 

 

Hmm, Amana is close enough to visit Wood and Woodsmith magazine's HQ in DesMoines.   Since PopWood went under, I don't have a close magazine publisher any more.  (I used to live about 2 miles from them).

Edited July 25, 20196 yr by kmealy

Hmm, got a maybe from the Mrs.  Eight hour drive.  Might turn it into a week-long Iowa trip (being retired we have trips, not vacations)

1 hour ago, kmealy said:

Hmm, got a maybe from the Mrs.  Eight hour drive.  Might turn it into a week-long Iowa trip (being retired we have trips, not vacations)

Oh the advantages of retirement, I envy you all.

Jesse, maybe you could drive up with your RV and pick-up a few of us along your way.  Danl

14 hours ago, John Morris said:

Oh the advantages of retirement, I envy you all.

You get the advantage of having to pay for all of the things you did to yourself while working. 

23 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

You get the advantage of having to pay for all of the things you did to yourself while working. 

Quite so, my friend. You know it's often said that if we knew we'd live this long, we'd have taken better care of ourselves.

Danl, a good thought but I finally sold it in May of this year. All these years my wife wouldn't let me sell it cause she said she would live in it when I died and sell the lake property for food expenses. And I would suggest getting in and out of the motor home especially getting older would not get easier each year and finally she realized I was right...

    I washed it right before he came and got it..

 

We told our kids it was only made to haul two people. It looked as good 20 years after we bought it for it stayed inside unless it was going down the road.

Handworks 2020 event have been postponed until 2021.  Date is TBD.

Danl