A business trip took me to Winnipeg this week and I had a couple of hours to kill before my flight home this afternoon. Lee Valley is a short hop from the airport and I decided to pay a visit as I've never been in one of their stores. The service was exceptional, the staff was knowledgeable and I left with two of those great bench dogs, a 3" engineers square, a shop apron and a full suite of current catalogs. Had a productive conversation with one of the guys on vise options for the new bench I'm going to build. Finally, came in $10 under budget -- the budget set by the amount I got for peddling a router and table on CL last week. You guys north of the border got it good!

Larry