The show was held in the Festhalle barn in historic village of Amana, Iowa



As the 10 AM opening time approached, a crowd of about 200 woodworking enthusiasts had already gathered



The show was organized and coordinated by brothers Jameel Abraham and Father John Abraham, owners of Benchcrafted, the Cedar Rapids, Iowa maker of fine vise hardware



Father John of Benchcrafted (in monk's robe and ball cap) speaking with a customer



Benchcrafted product line



A video showing traditional French artisan techniques was playing on a large overhead screen



There were quite a few old-timers in the crowd



Determined old-timers (apparently!)



Lost Art Press, represented by Chris Schwarz, John Hoffman
and Megan Fitzpatrick, had a major presence at the show



Scott Meek demonstrated his artful artisan wooden hand planes



Raney Nelson of Daed Toolworks was exhibiting his exquisite infill planes



Here woodworking author Jeff Miller adjusts his nifty jig for precision sawn tenons



And here Jeff applies his custom tenon saw to the apparatus



Traditional files and rasps were a popular draw



Gary Blum demonstrated his beautiful, unique hand planes



Here are a few of Gary's planes laid out on his unusual highly functional portable workbenches



Lee Valley had a large presence at the show.
Here is one of their unique items, the Veritas Inset Plane



Mike Siemsen's booth featured a traditional pine casket



The casket featured custom kerf-bent sides



Here's a close-up of the kerfs that enable the bend



A few of Bridge City Toolwork's exceptional woodworking gizmos



Bob Zajicek was on hand to show his unusual Czeck Edge Tools.
(In the background, Knew Concepts was demoing their fretsaws alongside Elkhead Tools)



Old Street Tools had an interesting booth that brought traditional hand planes to life



Display panel in the Old Street booth, a page from the Neves 1736 Builder's Dictionary



Old Street moulding planes



Moulding planes face on



And from another perspective



Lie-Nielsen's array of fine hand tools attracted a great deal of interest



Deneb Puchalski of Lie-Nielsen taught sharpening techniques to an eager crowd



Curtis Turner moving a Lie-Nielsen jointer plane faster than the camera's eye could record!



The Lie-Nielsen booth featured a nice graphic illustrating the manufacture of a plane



Ron Brese brought some of his fine infill planes and precision stainless planes



These 6 planes would set you back a total of at least $10,000.
(And you would have to wait in line about a year to have one made for you)



What a cool show this was!