01-13-2019, 10:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-13-2019, 10:46 AM by measure once cut remeasure.)
Just a quick review of the changes for 2019.
In prior years you could print off a $2 off admission coupon from their website or use the mailer they sent out for the $2 off.
This year to save $2 off the door price of $14, you had to pay on line and print out your admission ticket. Parking is still $ 5
Prior years had Peach Tree taking up about 25% of the building.
This year no peach tree. A larger area was set aside for the vendor selling overstock and Chinese tools.
In prior years the seminars were primarily at the left end of the rectangular building with carter and another on the right end.
This arrangement helped to isolate the seminars from the vendors.
This year carter was still on the right end but the other seminars were lined up one next to the other along the long back wall.
There seemed to be fewer seats set up for each seminar area with this layout, and a lot more people standing in the aisle behind the seats.
Every seminar had vendors within 15' of the seating area.
Each seminar had small speakers on each side of the seating area pointed in towards the seats.
When standing in the aisle, hearing was marginaly okay at times.
Other times you had a tablesaw or other power equipment running 15' from where you were standing trying to listen to the seminar, that totally drowned out the seminar.
The "Showcase" and totally turning show in Saratoga NY has a better layout that uses individual closed door conference rooms for each seminar.
In prior years you could print off a $2 off admission coupon from their website or use the mailer they sent out for the $2 off.
This year to save $2 off the door price of $14, you had to pay on line and print out your admission ticket. Parking is still $ 5
Prior years had Peach Tree taking up about 25% of the building.
This year no peach tree. A larger area was set aside for the vendor selling overstock and Chinese tools.
In prior years the seminars were primarily at the left end of the rectangular building with carter and another on the right end.
This arrangement helped to isolate the seminars from the vendors.
This year carter was still on the right end but the other seminars were lined up one next to the other along the long back wall.
There seemed to be fewer seats set up for each seminar area with this layout, and a lot more people standing in the aisle behind the seats.
Every seminar had vendors within 15' of the seating area.
Each seminar had small speakers on each side of the seating area pointed in towards the seats.
When standing in the aisle, hearing was marginaly okay at times.
Other times you had a tablesaw or other power equipment running 15' from where you were standing trying to listen to the seminar, that totally drowned out the seminar.
The "Showcase" and totally turning show in Saratoga NY has a better layout that uses individual closed door conference rooms for each seminar.
My .02
Karl
Karl