All Dressed Up And Someplace To Go

The recent three-day 18th Century Trades Fair was a gas.  I started making sawdust and shavings around noon on Friday and shut down with the torrential downpour on Sunday afternoon.  Too bad we got almost none of that at Shangri-la only a few miles away.  In fact, other than when the remnants of a tropical storm residue blew through town last month, resulting in four inches of rain that got soaked up instantly, we’ve had about an inch of rain since April.  It’s been a tough summer for the garden, lawn, and the barn’s micro-hydroelectric system.  Nevertheless, the attendance at the Fair was really hampered by regional weather forecasts projecting heavy rains all weekend.  Sigh.

But I digress.

I spent time at the Fair doing some simple work, basically making a storage till box for my tool chest (more about that in a coming post).  Folks liked seeing me work and asked a good number of questions but mostly they marveled at the really simple stuff like plane shavings.

It as my first rodeo with this tool kit and I learned lot about what I need for an event like this vis-a-vie the workbench, tools, workpieces, show-n-tell, etc.  Next time I will know what to add to my kit and what to leave behind.