Special Events
Our Conference agenda, besides having fun and enjoying the splendors of the Coeur d'Alene Resort, include Pre-Conference Workshops, numerous seminars and the following Special Events:
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The TFG Benefit Auction is a major fundraiser of the year and made successful through our members' generous and creative contributions of goods and services. Whether your donation is big or small, heavy or light, edible or wearable, serious or silly, it helps your Guild. All manner of goods are welcome: products, promises, tools, treasures, hand-stitched, hand-hewn, sweet, sour, little, large, serious, silly, fashionable, historical. Please consider bringing a donation. Your imagination and generosity power the success of this important fundraiser. If you cannot attend the Conference, please consider sending an item. Sponsored by Hundegger USA with additional support from Sauter Timber.
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The Trade Fair this year will start at noon on Thursday, April 22nd, and run through Saturday. This gives you an extra half-day to meet suppliers for the timber frame industry who will display their products and services and explain in detail how they're used. Meet those who support our craft in the field, including panel suppliers, tool vendors and wood brokers. The Timber Frame Business Council (TFBC) organizes the Trade Fair. The Timber Frame Business Council (TFBC) organizes the Trade Fair. If you wish to exhibit, contact the TFBC at 888-560-9251, or info@timberframe.org. Don't miss the Beer & Bull session on Thursday afternoon and the Trade Fair Mixer with food and refreshments on Friday afternoon.
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Charlotte Cooper and Bill Devereaux will once again bring the Summer Beam Bookstore for one-stop shopping and browsing for all those hard-to-find titles on woodworking and timber framing. Sponsored by Duluth Timber Company.
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Slide Show: Be a presenter! Share your experiences, your problems and your work on Friday night. Everyone's work is welcome at this Conference highlight. Bring ten of your favorite slides (or better yet, send a CD in advance with electronic images) related to your work in timber framing to share on Friday night. Further details will be included with your registration confirmation. Randy Churchill is coordinating the Show. Download the information for submissions.
Download the information for submissions.
The Timber Framers Guild Membership Meeting will be held on Saturday morning, when we can discuss what the Guild has been doing and where we are going.
Other on-going activities on Friday and Saturday include Joint Busting, the Axe-Throwing Competition and the Children's Discovery Workshop.
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