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The Greatest Weekend In Wood

Creative Woodworks & Crafts Editor, f George Ahlers, is busy planning his AirPainter seminars for The ULTIMATE Woodcrafting Festival. So for this issue, he has temporarily passed the editorial page torch on to Associate Editor (and Festival ,J|. Director) Barbara d. Martin. Here, she tells you what you can look forward to this

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1 Come spend the perfect weekend

You drive into the Sussex County Fairgrounds at 11:45 on Friday, August 20, filled with anticipation. After parking, you step out into the fresh country air. In one hand, you have your discounted pre-registration ticket. In the other is that special project you put the finishing touches on just days before. You look around and see hundreds of woodcrafters just like your-JP'self heading toward the tents and buildings that are filled to the brim with fffnot only your favorite designers, but with all those tools, kits, patterns, books and supplies that you've been waiting to try out firsthand.

You hand over your ticket and enter the event for which you've waited all summer long—The ULTIMATE Woodcrafting Festival!

The ULTIMATE

Woodcrafting Festival

August 21-23, 1998

So much to do in just three short days!

First, you drop off your project at the Reader's Gallery Tent, where you also register to win an entire 62-issue Creative Woodworks & Crafts back issue collection— one of only four in existence (at least to our ^:knowledge!). Next, you head over to the seminar building to check out the schedule, making some new friends along the way. With teachers like John Nelson. Ivan Whillock, Roy King and Scott Kochendorfer, Garnet Hall, and Joe Herrmann...you could spend a week in this one building alone! "Hey, is that Joanne Lockwood teaching in the Quick & Easy Painting class area? I'd better go sign up!"

You stroll up and down the aisles, buy a .few patterns, ask lots of questions, see

some amazing demonstrations, meet Bob Hlavacek, Dan and Raymond Wilckens, Sheila Bergner.Js it 6:00 p.m. already? P Saturday, you're there at 10:00 a.m. sharp, ready to check out the Jff Crafter's Tent, chatting with designer Sheila Polhemus while you're there. A few tables down you see Wayne Fowler's amazing 3-D Christmas Trees, so you buy a pattern, then you purchase a beautiful f woodburned plaque from the Schacks. Next, you head off to enjoy some ' bluegrass music and a tall lemonade, when a fellow woodcrafter walks by If with the shiny new router he just got a great deal on, so you turn back that way...

It's already Sunday, and you can't believe the last day has come so I quickly. Today, you're going to check out The Great Fretwork Clock and J!? finally meet Dirk and Karen Boelman—you've been buying their patterns M for years! On the way, you stop and watch a few more scroll saw demon-strations, easily talk yourself into buying a new set of carving tools, and then treat yourself to a T-shirt, cap and mug to help remember this weekend by.

It's almost 4:00 p.m., so you wish your newfound friends a safe jour-^; ney home and pat yourself on the back for making it to what turned out to be the greatest weekend in wood—The ULTIMATE Woodcrafting Festival!

See you there!