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I’m looking forward to the trip; upstate New York is a great place to visit this time of year, although it looks like the autumn leaves aren’t quite at their peak. I lived in Syracuse for a few years, and always enjoy returning to the beautiful part of New York.
There are differences of course between Syracuse and Rochester. One I notice most is the term used for soft drinks. I grew up around Cleveland, and we used the term “pop” as they do in Rochester. In Syracuse it’s “soda.” Somewhere in between there must be a shift in terminology, my guess is somewhere around Seneca Falls. I’ve never been ambitious enough to go beyond aimless pondering of this, but someone else has, and of course they have a web site devoted to the Pop vs. Soda debate.
In any case, I’m going to be speaking about and demonstrating techniques for building kitchen and other residential cabinets. I spent a lot of my woodworking career in custom cabinet shops, and I’ve built kitchens for homes ranging from very nice to outrageously expensive.
I wrote down most of what I know about the subject in my book: The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker. 
People seem to like it, and it’s a bit different from your average “How to Make Kitchen Cabinets Book.”
Rather than only showing one way of building cabinets, or one style of cabinets, I tried to give enough information about different methods, materials, styles and types of cabinets to help people make intelligent decisions about what will work for them. I also included a lot of information about how to plan, estimate and organize this type of project without losing your mind or your spouse.
At the Saturday workshop, I’ll be trying to cover as much territory as I can about efficient ways to put both frameless and face-frame cabinets together in the average small workshop. I’ll be building both types of cabinets and showing several different ways of making the cases, face frames, doors and drawers.
I’ll be answering questions Friday and Saturday as long as the caffiene and my voice hold out. I’m not going to plug the Popular Woodworking Store but I will have a T-Shirt to give away to the first person Friday or Saturday who mentions this blog entry to me.
Looking forward to seeing you in Rochester,
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