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Just a quick reminder of upcoming events for lovers of great woodworking hand tools. Lie-Nielsen are in Arlington, November 30th to December 1st.

Guest Demonstrators will include: Konrad Sauer, Steve Latta, John Economaki, Garrett Hack, Brian Boggs, and Tom Lie-Nielsen.

Lie-Nielsen Inlay Tools will make their first public appearance on Friday 30th. They’ve been working with Steve Latta to develop specialized tools to do string inlays. Steve will demonstrate these on Friday afternoon and all Saturday.

Master Chair Maker Brian Boggs also be demonstrating and will donate the chair he builds at the show for a door prize!

Address details and other show dates in January and February are on our Woodworking Events page.

MakerFaire appears to be a fair for makers of… well loads of interesting stuff for woodworkers certainly - and then some it would seem.

In their own words, Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. Want to see robots, rockets, a catapult competition, even a life-sized mousetrap? They’ll all be at Maker Faire

Something for everyone then - woodworkers included!

Of special interest to woodworkers will be Fox Chapel Publishing who will be on-hand celebrating the fun of woodworking by racing pinewood derby cars down a 40-foot track with Troy Thorne, author of Pinewood Derby Designs & Patterns, turning bowls with the help of the Central Texas Woodturners Association, building mousetrap-powered racers with our new author, Doc Fizzix, and spitting wood chips from our whittling and carving projects. We’ll also have on display our famous Wooden Gear Clock and challenging Cryptex Puzzle Vault — both recent cover projects from Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts.

Tickets for Maker Faire Austin available online or at the Austin Children’s Museum!

Please note that advance ticket pricing (and pre-mailing of tickets) is valid online through October 10th, 2007. After October 10th, tickets purchased on the Maker Faire website will be at full price and will be available at Will Call onsite. The Austin Children’s Museum will be selling discounted tickets through October 19th and they will be available at the Austin Children’s Museum Ticket Office.

• When: October 20-21, 2007
• Were: at Travis County Expo Center, 7311 Decker Lane, Austin, Texas
• Hours: Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-5pm

Lie-Nielsen hand tools - rightly recognized as amongst the best in the world - have just announced a new season of Hand Tool Events which gets under way at the Philadelphia Furniture Workshop in early October.

They will have benches and tools for you to try, toolmaking displays and woodworking demos by some of the country’s finest woodworkers. This is a great opportunity to meet them, talk tools and try out the entire line of Lie-Nielsen hand tools.

For full details visit our Woodwork Shows and Events page.