That show was quite the worst I have encountered and I have been going since the Horticultural Hall days. Specifically, there were no stands selling the general run of quality hand tools, the professional accessories power tool stands were a token effort and large areas were devoted to the market trader dross goods.
Am I the only one to be fed up with plane demonstrators vying to prove their plane can take a shaving you can read through? The point of most planes is to remove wood. At the Clico demo I asked the bloke to demonstrate the multi-plane, he showed me a bit of wood already grooved. I have one and they are s***s to set up.
The lack of trade support resulted in a wide range of craft demos, but we know that had stands sold those people would not have got a look in. I went down to Axminster in Kent yesterday and spent my money there!
