HEADLINES FROM CURRENT ISSUE May-June, 2010 WHAT'S NEWS 29th Annual "Design in Wood" Showcases Craftsmanship New General Saw Tilts Left Rockler Pock-It Hole Clamp Laguna's Telescoping Miter Fence TH&H San Diego Moves Location Craftsman Studio's New Location Woodworkers Fight Cancer Craftsmen Are Under Insured PICTORIALS WoodFair North Coast Festival AAW's Maple Medley Showcase OPPORTUNITIES Fine Arts Woodworking -- Costa Mesa, CA WoodFair 2010 -- Arcata, CA WoodCentral.com's Turning & Burning Competition Artistry in Wood -- Sonoma, CA Esherick Museum Competition -- Paoli, PA Texas Furniture Makers Show -- Kerrville, TX Materials Hard & Soft -- Denton, TX Rising Star Furniture Showcase -- Seattle, WA Veneer Tech's Craftsman's Challenge Hawaii Commitment to Excellence -- Honolulu, HI Niche Awards Works in Wood -- New Hope, PA Ashes to Art -- Graton, CA Sebastopol Juried Exhibition -- Sebastopol, CA Bamboo Competition Central Washington Art Exhibit -- Yakma, WA Americas 2010 All Media Exhibit -- Minot, ND 2010 California Open Exhibit -- Santa Monica, CA What Texas Means to ME -- Austin, TX Craft Forms 2010 -- Wayne, PA Art of the Garden -- Snohomish, WA Lines into Shape -- Estes Park, CO Juried Exhibitio@BAC -- Berkeley, CA Contemporary Crafts -- Richmond, CA ACCI Juried Exhibition -- Berkeley, CA Maritime Art Exhibit -- Coos Bay, OR Call of the Wild -- Jackson, WY In, On, Around Sculpture -- St. Charles, MO Marin County Fair -- San Rafael, CA Art Port Townsend -- Port Townsend, WA Kenmore Art Show -- Kenmore, WA Woman Made Gallery -- Chicago, IL The Art of Applied Design Best Carving Design State Fair Competitions HAPPENINGS Kaleidoscope Society Convention -- Santa Clara, CA American Assoc. of Woodturners -- Hartford, CT Utah Woodturning Symposium -- Orem, UT Furniture Society Conference -- Boston, MA San Diego Woodturning Symposium -- San Diego, CA Olympia Woodturning Symposium -- Lacey, WA SWAT Turning Symposium -- Waco, TX Deming Logging Show -- Deming, WA Wonderful World of Wood -- Tulsa, OK Colorado Arts & Crafts Show -- Golden, CO San Diego Cabinetmakers Seminar -- Ramona, CA Dwell on Design -- Los Angeles, CA SOFA West -- Santa Fe, NM Seattle Wooden Boat Festival -- Seattle, WA Alt Build Expo -- Santa Monica, CA Legacy Turning Open House -- Springville, UT Pen Turners Rendezvous -- Orem, UT Crafts Supplies USA Super Wednesday -- Provo, UT Home Builders Shows -- San Francisco, CA & Truckee, CA International Woodworking Fair -- Atlanta, GA Carving & Woodcraft Shows Wholesale Shows Tool Swap Meets ON EXHIBIT - Woodworking Currently On Display 600 Townsend -- San Francisco, CA Academy of Arts at Linekona -- Honolulu, HI Anchorage Museum -- Anchorage, AK Art Center of Estes Park -- Estes Park, CO Artwood -- Bellingham, WA Bainbridge Arts & Crafts - Bainbridge, WA Blum & Poe - Los Angeles, CA Boettcher Mansion - Golden, CO Brewster Kaleidoscope Society - Santa Clara, CA Cerittos College - Norwalk, CA Contemporary Crafts Market - Santa Monica, CA Cottonwood Art Gestival -- Richardson, TX del Mano Gallery -- West Los Angeles, CA Forest Heritage Center -- Broken Bow, OK Gallery M -- Half Moon Bay, CA George Krevsky Gallery -- San Francisco, CA Greg Kuera Gallery -- Seattle, WA Heard Museum -- Phoenix, AZ Highlight Gallery -- Mendocino, CA Houston Center for Contemporary Craft - Houston, TX Huntington Library - San Marino, CA Jane Sauer Gallery -- Santa Fe, NM Japanese Garden - Portland, OR LA Modernism Show -- Santa Monica, CA Laguna Art Festival -- Laguna Beach, CA Luis de Jesus Los Angeles -- Santa Monica, CA Manitou Galleries -- Santa Fe, NM Marin Art Festival -- San Rafael, CA Mesa Contemporary Arts -- Mesa, AZ Museum of Fine Arts -- Santa Fe, NM Museum of International Folk Art -- Santa Fe, NM Museum of Making Music -- Carlsbad, CA National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum -- Oklahoma City, OK New Mexico Arts & Crafts Fair -- Albuquerque, NM Nicolaysen Art Museum -- Casper, WY Northwest Fine Woodworking -- Seattle, WA Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture -- Spokane, WA Oregon Convention Center -- Portland, OR Patina Gallery -- Santa Fe, NM Reflections Kaleidoscopes -- Mendocino, CA Richmond Art Center -- Richmond, CA Rockler Woodworking -- Denver, CO San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design -- San Francisco, CA Sea Ranch Lodge -- Sea Ranch, CA Seattle Art Museum -- Seattle, WA Sebastopol Center for the Arts -- Sebastopol, CA Stonington Gallery -- Seattle, WA Texas Arts & Crafts Fair -- Kerrville, TX ORGANIZATINAL NEWS Descriptions of woodworking organizational activities throughout the Western U.S. WOODCENTRAL.COM by Ellis Walentine What's Your Exit Strategy FROM DAVID MARKS STUDIOS Answering Readers' Questions TOOLS & TECHS Bench Planes: The Solution for Working with Difficult Grain by John English THE BUSINESS OF WOODWORKING Degveloping Your Needs & Priorities by Scott A. 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