Win an all-access pass to Fine Woodworking Live!
Jun 09, 2012
SUNY New Paltz's brand new student center plays host to Fine Woodworking Live, August 2-5.
Can you carve out some time for woodworking fun at the beginning of August? Can you get yourself to lovely New Paltz, NY? Then just post a comment below. We’ll pick one and hand that lucky woodworker an all-access pass to Fine Woodworking Live, worth $530!
Your golden ticket gets you three days at our first-ever live event, packed with classes, seminars, and demos, where you will get to hang out with your favorite FWW authors, like Garrett Hack, Michael Fortune, Steve Latta, Chris Becksvoort, Mike Pekovich, and many more. Plus you get the special Saturday-night banquet, a music and storytelling evening with woodworking twist, with Nick Offerman, star of NBC’s Parks & Recreation and recent FWW author.
It all begins Thursday evening, August 2, at the State University of New York in New Paltz’s beautiful new student center and continues through noon on Sunday. You’ll want to bring your spouse along, as the Hudson Valley is packed with shopping, museums, historic sites, and outdoor beauty.
Just post a comment below. Easiest sweepstakes ever! For more about the event, go to www.finewoodworkinglive.com.
Now to keep the lawyers happy, I have to include all this stuff:
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PRIZE DESCRIPTION. There will be one (1) winner. The prize is an All Access Pass to the Fine Woodworking Live event which includes a full conference attendee pass for one and a Saturday night banquet ticket for one. The total value of the prize is $529.95 USD. If the winner has already purchased a pass to the event they will be refunded the amount they have already paid.
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SUNY New Paltz's brand new student center plays host to Fine Woodworking Live, August 2-5.
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New Paltz, and the surrounding Hudson Valley, is a great place to hang out, hike, and explore.
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Want your scraper shavings to look like this? They will after you attend Mike Pekovich's sharpening class!
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Learn furniture-making secrets from FWW contributing editor Steve Latta.
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Just post a comment for a chance to win. Tell us why you want to go, or just say, sign me up!
Comments
Woodworking and rock climbing? Sign me up!
Woodworking AND New York in August? Sign Me up!
Please choose me. I really want to atend.
woodworking show with classes that fun
Pick me. Please.
PICK ME! PICK ME! PICK ME!
Sounds like a great opportunity to attend an event I couldn't otherwise afford.
Sounds like 3 days any woodworker would hope to enjoy!
I just recently retired. So, sign me up and I'll start saving for the airfare now.
Let's see... Leave work for 3 days of woodworking? I guess I can handle that. Thanks for the contest FW.
I am a beginner woodworker. I would love to attend this.
Would be a great experience!
sign me up!
I look forward to totally winning. Thanks Asa.
Sounds like a great three days.
I would love to go. But, with a baby on the way money is tight.
PLEASE PICK ME!!!!
I will finally be able to share my new invention
The 'IRON STOP'. Attaches to any hand plane and retracts the blade
in 1/1000 sec if you set it down on its sole.
Hopefully they will be required, by law, on all new planes.
It would be great to see an learn from these craftsmen at their trade.
This is going to be a great event. I look forward to many more in the years to come. Good luck to the staff of FWW,I know that you guys will do your best to put on a great event.
What a great way to enhance woodworking skills.
After hearing Asa describe what's going to happen at the Fine Woodworking Live event on the Modern Woodworkers Podcast, I got really excited and interested in this event. I'd love to win tickets to go. Sign me up!
Sign me up!
Sign me up...I would love to go!
Sign me up...I would love to go!
It will be great to have a world class event like this based on the east coast - arguably the hub of nationwide 'fine woodworking' as well as the historic center of 17th - 19th century American furniture building. Can't wait to attend!
Dropping name in hat...
I would love to go, but with the woodworking class I am taking this Summer, I can't afford to do both. Winning would let me do just that!
(fingers-crossed)
Jonathan
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I would really appreciate the opportunity to simply be around so many masters.
Sounds great! Count me in.
Please count me in too. What a fantastic prize!
Please sign me up for a chance to win an all-access pass to Fine Woodworking Live
Pretty cool. Please sign me up.
I would love to try this online learning opportunity. Your other online and published materials are routinely of the highest quality. Sign me up!
That would be an awesome end to the summer!
Great contest! Please sign me up.
I kust cant learn enough about WW. I read everythibg I can and would love the chance to attend Fww live.
Would love to go. This would be the best guy vacation and a great opportunity to learn more from top woodworkers. On top of it, I have a friend already going.
I'm already registered and I'm giddy about attending. It would be great to win the free ticket, but I'll be there either way!
As a person who has been to every WIA conference, I would LOVE to go to Fine Woodworking's first effort in this arena and do some serious comparing (while learning and having fun too...)
Well, I could use the help so sign me up!
I could really use the FWL! I have had no shop for over a year, redoing our house. Living in a studio with my better half and the dog. I will have a new basement shop when it's done.
Mendoguy should win just for being hilarious! (But it is a random thing.) Thanks for all the responses. We'll announce the winner right after the contest ends (June 26).
I'm just getting a shop again after 8 years of working out of a box truck. Need to dive back in and this is a great way to do it. Hope I win.
I would love to update my tired shop with some new equipment.
Sign me up!
I was in the Smithsonian over the Memorial Day weekend. They had some Maloof pieces that were just beautiful. I'll never get to that level but it would be inspiring to advance a step. I think seeing the experts would help.
Beside, no project is too small to not justify buying a tool.
Sign me up!
I'd like to go because I am a librarian at the West Philly Tool Library. What I learned I would share with a lot of people!
And New Paltz!! Sign me up!!
Nick Offerman is the nuts! Also the team of Fortune, Latta, Becksvoort and Hack isn't too shabby. Based on Shop Talk Live I might even enjoy the editors comments as well. For the record I found the sound effects kind of funny. The timing was off from time to time though. I have to go before this comment is found to be-BORING!
You can sign me up. This would be a real blast......Hope I win......
Excellent magazine! The scraper sharpening article was very timely. Sign me up for the drawing.
Woodworking in NY sounds super!
If Matt Kenney's head is going to be the test at the sharpening workshop I might have to skip that one. I don't want to hear a grown man cry & bleed. Otherwise...
sign me up!
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can . . .
I'd love to win!
Thanks a bunch!
New Paltz is a great location.
Sign me up, too!
I haven't been to a ww show in years!
Don
I would love to attend- I know I'd learn a lot and have a good time. New Paltz is cool. But I never win these contests........................
Sign me up
Never been to a ww show before.
Sounds very interesting. Hope to be there!
I'd love to attend the Fine Woodworking Live event.
If you choose me I might become a better woodworker!
Count me in.
Been working with wood since I was 8 (long time). Never been to a show, might as well start with the best!
Sign me up!!
Just completed "3 Month Intensive" fine furniture course at N. Bennett St. School in Boston and want to keep learning the art!!
Haven't been to New Paltz in years. Nice place and should be a great event.
At 27 years old, I may not be the youngest woodworker, but picking me would definitely help the demographic. For the past year and a half, I have ate, slept, and bled woodworking 7 days week 365 days a year. Plus I'm highly involved in the social media aspect (#woodchat, twitter, G+, WoodTalkOnline.com,FWW.com) so you surely would be getting some free publicity! SEE YOU IN AUGUST!
-Brian VanVreede
BCcraftmaster
"I don't cut corners, I mitre them"
I would love to attend this event!
What I think I know will be corrected and what I do not know yet will be illuminated. I have blocked the days out on my calendar, let the instruction begin!
This conference sounds great. I have enjoyed fine woodworking for many years. Thank youfor this opportunity.
Allen
Count me in . What a great prize of hands on knowledge.
I would really like te see live these guys that I watch on video since years and give them a hand.
Sign me up, I would love to attend and learn more about woodworking.
I only buy the finest of tools and would love to add a few from this show. Please sign me up for a chance to go!
I knicked my finger with a shoulder plane and wood shavings came out of the cut. This heart pumps hardwood! Sign me up.
Sounds like a great show. Please sign me up.
sign me up. would like to see the masters at work and learn from them.
I am a self taught machinist of wood who needs transformation. Ready to go!
DIYer to woodworking... would love the chance to expand the skills!
Ohh ohhh, DIYer, with beginner woodworking skills ready to report for duty.
Count me in! It seems a great opportunity to gain skills and inspiration to get busy and happy in my under-used woodshop.
Sure, I am old Newby, getting back to woodworking 60 years latter so I am sort of a sponge-need input!
Norm D
Sign me up! I would LOVE to go!
Sign me up...
Sign me up please, I would love to learn from the masters. Also I have never been to New York and would love to go as well. Thank you for the opportunity!
I would love to attend, to see masters of woodworking doing what they do best. So please sign me up.
Any time I can make saw dust life is good.
What an incredible opportunity....I would be awesome to attend!
I will attend if picked.
Please sign me up too. I would love to attend this event.
35 Years a woodworker/furniture maker and know there is always more to learn.Yes,I would love to attend.
I'll be in NYC anyway to see my new grand daughter!
How come my post is identified as Kwerkusalba even though I'm a member, logged in and signed in as [email protected]???
Sign me up!
Want to learn from the experts.
I'm planing on attending WIA on the west coast and FWL on the east coast would make for a really sweet year of woodworking knowledge. It would be fun to do a write up on each one!
I'd love to attend
I just got back into woodworking a fews ago after the kids all moved out of the house. I would love to attend to hone my skills and to teach what I learn to my son. I think It is important for us to pass the legacy of woodworking to the next generation.
I'm planning on one day at the event, but if I could be there for the whole magilla it'd be great. Sign me up.
Sign me up and I'll be there with tools on
Thanks.
I'd LOVE to come to the event!!! What fun!
Thanks!
New York, here I come
What a great giveaway! Love to win this trip for my 76th birthday!
i think i would like to go.yes i would like to go.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for me- and I am in commuting distance of SUNY New Paltz!
Woodworking is my passion, and as an 62 year old woman, I have so much more to learn -- I would love to attend the event - it would be a great opportunity to meet the masters and build skills.
I would make time for this. I live just outside of Detroit and have been waiting for a show like this to come around. I have seen some of the presenters work in the magazine over the years, and would love to meet the people behind the work. Sign me up as one who would love to attend the show.
GOOD REASON TO TAKE A TRIP ACROSS THE USA.
New york is close enough a trip for me to handle.
I'd love to go if only to mill around ( pun intended ) with the good stuff, drop some scarce bucks and learn a few tricks and tips. Better yet would to be to find out that I'd won a Dreamshop.
Is I entered now??!!
Did i win?????
Fine woodworking and I have been buddies for a lonnngg time.
It would be nice to go to a LIVE
Living in Australia I will not be able to make it ,if you guys put everything on a couple of DVD'S I will definitly be on to purchase them.Cheers and have a good time,
Pomme.
No, No, don't listen to those yelling pick me! pick me! Instead go with the much more sensible approach and Choose me! Choose me!
Have spent some time in New Paltz area and found it quite a nice place to enjoy history, scenery and the company of interesting people.
Showing up for several days relating to fellow woodworkers will be most enjoyable.
Send me on your dime and I will bring my son on mine.
Thanks for the opportunity to WIN!!
Sign me up!!
Pick me and I promise I won't be disruptive in class. Thanks.
I'm in Arizona - give me a break.
What a great place to learn.
Please sign me up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love to make sawdust in the Big Apple. What a fantastic Contest!
August in New York and Fine Woodworking , an excellent combination; sign me up.
Really would like to go as it would count as a vacation and appease my wife's disire to go on holiday.
As a NY Ex-pat I would relish the chance to see beautiful 'almost upstate" NY. And especially spend some quality time with the great speakers that are lined up and with fellow wood junkies!!
I feel like the kid on Wiily Wonka.......waiting for my golden ticket.
Hi, I'd like to go to the show too.
The smell of fresh Cherry, Maple and Pine sawdust, matched with the experience of a master craftsman sharing his insight on making my next project easier and more beautiful, is an opportunity that I don't want to miss. It is not about the guy who has the most tools, it is about the person who understands wood and transforms ideas into furniture for the family. It is also being surrounded by other craftsmen who understand the joys of late evening final sandings and the gently applied coats of varnish. Through exibitions like this one, everyone wins. To those who teach and to those who learn, may everyone have memorable experience. I hope that "Fine Woodworking" make this event an annual congress of wood workers in America.
What a great experience this would be
What looks most interesting about this forum is that it isn't just a collection of machine mongers and setup displays. Classes take a lot of time, effort, and up-front cost. Hope this works out.
I would love to attend the NY conference. I will be attending another conference the next week in NY, so this one would fit right in. I am an avid woodworker and love to see and hear new ideas and projects. Draw my name.
It would be the trip of a lifetime, keeping my fingers crossed!
Sign me up!
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I'm there! (I hope...)
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What provisions has Woodworking Live made for participants in a wheel chair?
I'd love to go. sign me up.
Sign me up!
I'd love to be in New York in August, Sign me up!!
Looks like the place to be (and the people to be there with)! Oh, yeah.
Sign me up
I'm all over this--sign me up
Wood love to win this, sign me up.
Sounds like fun. This would be a much better use of my time than actually finishing some of my projects :)
Just listened to ShopTalkLive #8. The description of FWW Live sounds great. Can't wait!
I have certainly enjoyed being a member to Fine Woodworking on line for the past few month's. As a result of a degenerative muscle disease, I have started using hand tools to keep the strength in my hands from going south. It seems to help. It is because of the video series from ones like Garret Hack, Timothy Rousseau, and others that use hand tools that I don't think I can go back to power tools, besides the fact I can't hold on to them because of the vibration and power. So, that being said, I really appreciate the work that goes into each video series and would really like to meet those who give the classes. It would be an honor to see them live. Keep up the "Fine" work!
One day I will post the harps and violin that I have been working on!
I'd love to get back out the East Coast and go to the event. I need to move around more retirement is a lot of work and I need a vacation.
Another Hat in the ring...
Thanks!
Oh! Oh! Oh! Me! Me! Me!
My dad also a woodworker lives up that way and was recently diagnosed with cancer. It would be a great opportunity to spend some time with him doing something we both love.
I used to live in NY, i know new paltz well
hope i win
Please let me win!
show me the money!! hehe
Fine Woodworking Live coincides with my birthday...couldn't think of a better present!!!
i live 30 minutes from new paltz. my twin girls go to collage there. i wood love to go!!!!!
I would love to win this!!! Woodworking and Eddie Money!!! What a great combo. Pick me and I'll bring chocolate-chip cookies.
We have a winner, folks! It is Jan Olewnik, from Manhattan, Kansas. Watch for my blog about Jan in the next day or so. Thanks to all of you for commenting, and watch your email inboxes for some special news.
Is it to late to win? I am looking to spend sometime in NY
I'm free that month! Love to go!!!!!
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