Saturday February 2nd 2008

9am until 5pm

Canberra has a growing number of local knife collectors and enthusiasts, and is close enough to Sydney to be a day trip. The Embassy Motel is in the centre part of Canberra, close to many attractions, and offers affordable accommodation as part of the package.  

The show will be followed by a special workshop day on the Sunday held out at the Tharwa Valley Forge - where makers are invited to run short workshops to share ideas and techniques. It is aimed as a professional development day for members of the Guild to learn from each other. It will not be open to the general public. We are looking for presenters to share a 60 minute session. The session should be interactive, drawing from the experience in the group. We have well equipped workshops to run demonstrations with gas and coal forges, a number of grinders, and hand tooling areas. It will be a great opportunity for participants and presenter to learn from each other.

Tables can be booked online trough the Tharwa Valley Forge Website  . There are only a limited number of tables.

It was great to see everyone at the show this year, including some new faces whom we shall talk more about shortly, although there were those who didn’t attend and we missed them a lot.  At the top of that list is Sandie, our much loved and hard working treasurer/secretary who is still dealing with her family situation and was unable to be there with us.  Sorely missed, we hope and pray that things will continue to get better for her and that she will be back with us soon.  With a newfound respect for how much she really does do for us, it is much clearer to me that I should have thanked her more often for her hard work.  THANKS SANDIE!!