Hey this is Chris Grundy from DIY networks cool tools and you're listening to Wood Talk online.

Well, it's July 16, 2009.

We're at the 2009 AWFS Fair.

And Matt and I had an opportunity to meet and embrace for the first time and got the moment on video.

And the world didn't collapse.

There was a slight shudder in there.

It could have been the gas from the earlier in the morning when I had my breakfast burrito, but...

Yeah, yeah, no implosions, nothing like that, so, you know, everybody is safe.

But what we figured we do is just to give you some initial impressions of the show.

We've got a couple notes here jotted down.

We'll just run through it and let you guys know what you're missing or possibly what you're not missing.

Yeah, I think that might be more like, at least from my opinion so far. I haven't been to any of the other ones

So maybe you can shed a little more light on this, but so far I I don't want to put it down or anything

But I'm a little underwhelmed that I think you made a good point it probably has a lot to do with

the economy so first of all what's your impression so far based on what you

were had last year well we've only been to two other shows prior to this we

before that we just never had a chance to go. So we were at

high W.F and we were at the previous two years ago the same show in Vegas.

Okay. Both times, both of them were much more elaborate. Most of the booths were

larger, more impressive like

like for instance festool has these big towers that they usually have up

none of that stuff everybody is really really downsizing now

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