HEADLINES FROM CURRENT ISSUE

• AWFS Fair Returns to Las Vegas -- Las Vegas, NV

OPPORTUNITIES

• Texas Furniture Makers Show -- Kerrville, TX
• Northwest Fine Woodworking Box Show -- Seattle, WA
• Colorado Furniture Exhibit -- Colorado Springs, CO
• Hawaii WoodShow 2007 -- Honolulu, HI
• 2008 Niche Awards
• Cradles & Cribs -- Albuquerque, NM
• Materials Hard & Soft -- Denton, TX
• Mesa Contemporary Arts - Mesa, AZ
• Art in the Redwoods -- Gualala, CA
• Footlong: Small Works -- Portales, NM
• Port Townsend Art Show -- Port Townsend, WA
• Jewelry Exhibit -- Portland, OR
• Handmade Toy Show -- Tacoma, WA
• Western Student Furniture Show -- San Francisco, CA
• HCCC Studio Residencies -- Houston, TX
• Marin County Fair -- San Rafael, CA
• Oregon State Fair -- Salem, OR
• New Mexico State Fair -- Albuquerque, NM
• Western Washington Fair -- Puyalluo, WA
• Texas State Fair -- Dallas, TX
• Arizona State Fair -- Phoenix, AZ
• California Open -- Santa Monica, CA
• Call for Small -- Sebastopol, CA
• ACCI Gallery Exhibitions -- Berkeley, CA
• Lines Into Shape -- Estes Park, CO
• Grants for Preservationists

HAPPENINGS

• Seattle Wooden Boast Festival -- Seattle, WA
• San Diego Fall Wood Seminar -- San Diego, CA
• San Diego Woodturning Symposium -- San Diego, CA
• Arizona Woodturning Symposium -- Prescott, AZ
• West Coast Turning Round-Up -- Richmond, BC Canda
• Rocky Mountain Woodturning Symposium -- Loveland, CO
• SWAT Woodturning Symposium -- Wichita Falls, TX
• Texas Bamboo Festival -- Austin, TX
• Japanese Woodworking Tour
• Fall Woodworking Shows
• Wonderful World of Wood -- Tulsa, TX
• Deming Logging Show -- Deming, WA
• Diablo Summer Seminar -- Pleasant Hills, CA
• San Diego, County Fair -- Del Mar, CA
• Marin County Fair -- San Rafael, CA
• Orange County Fair -- Costa Mesa, CA
• King County Fair -- Ennumclaw, WA
• California State Fair -- Sacarmento, CA
• Oregon State Fair -- Salem, OR
• Woodworks -- Austin, TX
• Western Wholesale Shows
• Carving & Woodcraft Shows
• Tool Swap Meets

FEATURES/PICTORIALS

• Design in Wood -- Del Mar, CA
• WoodFair 2007 -- Eureka, CA

ON EXHIBIT - Woodworking Currently On Display

• Anchorage Musuem -- Anchorage, AK
• Art Center at Fuller Lodge -- Los Alamos, NM
• Arts & Crafts San Francisco -- San Frnacisco, CA
• Artery -- Davis, CA
• Bainbridge Arts & Crafts -- Bainbridge, CA
• Bainbridge Island Studio Tour -- Bainbridge, WA
• Bayview Corner Cash Store -- Langley, WA
• Bellevue Art Museum -- Bellevue, WA
• Benson Sculpture Garden -- Loveland, CO
• Bentley Projects -- Phoenix, AZ
• Best of Northwest -- Redmond, WA
• Center for the Arts at the Depot -- Steamboat Springs, CO
• Cervini Haas Gallery -- Scottsdale, AZ
• Cherry Creek Art Festival -- Denver, CO
• Coos Bay Art Museum -- Coos Bay, OR
• del Mano Gallery -- West Los Angeles, CA
• Depot Art Center - Anacortes, WA
• Dolphin Gallery -- Gualala, CA
• Ellen Noel Art Museum -- Odessa, TX
• Fort Mason Center -- San Francisco, CA
• Gallery M -- Half Moon Bay, CA
• Gallery Madera -- Tacoma, WA
• Gerald Peters Gallery -- Santa Fe, NM
• Getty Museum -- Los Angeles, CA
• Gualala Arts Center -- Gualala, CA
• Hawaii State Art Museum -- Honolulu, HI
• Laguna Art Festivals -- Laguna Beach, CA
• Longmont Museum -- Longmont, CO
• Manitou Galleries -- Santa Fe, NM
• Marin County Fair -- San Rafael, CA
• Maude Kerns Art Center -- Eugene, OR
• Mendocino Coast Gardens -- Fort Bragg, CA
• Museum of Contemporary Art -- La Jolla, CA
• Museum of Contemporary Crafts -- Portland, OR
• Museum of Fine Art -- Santa Fe, NM
• Museum of Making Music -- Carlsbad, CA
• New Mexico Arts & Crafts Fair -- Albuquerque, NM
• Northwest Fine Woodworking -- Seattle, WA
• Odd Fellows Hall -- Mendocino, CA
• Oregon College of Art & Craft -- Portland, OR
• Oregon Convention Center -- Portland, OR
• Pacific Northwest Woodturning Guild -- Portland, OR
• Park City Arts Festival -- Park City, UT
• Pasadena Museum of California Art -- Pasadena, CA
• Plaines Art Museum -- Fargo, ND
• Pritchard Gallery -- Moscow, ID
• Rejuvenation House Parts -- Portland, OR
• SF Museum of Craft & Folk Art -- San Francisco, CA
• SF Museum of Modern Art -- San Francisco, CA
• Sonoma County Museum -- Santa Rose, CA
• Space Monkey Coffee Shop -- Portland, OR
• Sun Valley Arts & Crafts -- Ketchum, ID
• The Real Mother Goose -- Portland, OR
• Trios Gallery -- Solana Beach, CA
• Tercera Gallery -- Palo Alto, CA
• Trembling Aspen Gallery -- Buena Vista, CO
• Tucson Museum of Art -- Tucson, AZ
• Washington State History Museum -- Tacoma, WA
• White Bird Gallery -- Cannon Beach, OR
• Wood Merchant -- La Conner, WA
• World Forestry Center -- Portland, OR
• Zane Bennett Contemporary Art -- Santa Fe, NM

ORGANIZATIONAL NEWS

• Descriptions of woodworking organizational activities
  throughout the Western U.S.

WOODCENTRAL.COM by Ellis Walentine

A Suggestion Box for Manufacturers

WOOD NOTES by Ian Kirby

Solid Wood Furnituremaking Series: Building a
Hand Tool Grinding & Sharpening Station

WOOD WORKS by David Marks

Nigh Stand Finishing Options

TOOLS & TECHS

Sand Shading for Marquetry by Paul Schurch

TURNING TOPICS

AAW Themed Exhibit: Turning Green

EDUCATION

• Listing of Woodworking Workshops, Demos, Classes in Western U.S.
• Cerritos College

WOODWORKER PROFILES

• Kent Townsend - Furnituremaker - Salida, CO

WOODWORKER'S CALENDAR

THE MARKETPLACE - Classified Ads

SHAVINGS & SAWDUST

• Beauty in a Tree that Once Stood