Do you subscribe to wood magazines?

[Charles McKinley]

I subscribe to Wood and plan on Subscribing to Fine Homebuilding. Like Kevin above I have been getting several books. I have spent alot of time and money at Half Price Books.

[Jason Roehl]

I subscribe to Wood and plan on Subscribing to Fine Homebuilding. Like Kevin above I have been getting several books. I have spent alot of time and money at Half Price Books.

Chuck, FHB is ok, but I much prefer The Journal of Light Construction. I think that it offers more "down-to-earth" approaches to building, whereas FHB is often laden with artsy, out-of-everyone's-price-range-except-Bill-Gates' stuff. And FHB will often lag JLC on similar subjects by a few months only they don't necessarily do as good of a job at explaining the same. So, if you haven't taken the plunge already, at least look into it.

[John Wadsworth]

I guess I'm the one who spends too much time with the mags and not enough in the shop!

Seriously, back when I was a woodworking wannabe living in the Big Apple and working sixty hours a week, coming home to the latest FWW (or Wood, or WWJ, or AWW, or ....) was the closest I ever got to putting sharp things next to lignin.

Now that I'm retired to the country with my own shop, the habit has persisted--I still get a bunch of WW mags and keep the back issues neatly files in magazine file cases.

This is made worthwhile by the Woodworker's Guide, a program that has indexed all the articles, tool reviews, etc., in all the issues of a couple of dozen woodworking magazines. Want to make a butler's tray? Just enter the search term "butler" and presto! cites to four articles from four different mags pop up (from the mags and issues I've told the Guide I have saved--you might have more hits or fewer).

You can order it from http://www.woodworkersindexing.com

No affiliation, yadda yadda yadda...

[Mike Schwing]

I subscribe to Fine Woodworking because it inspires me. I subscribe to Popular Woodworking and American Woodworker because they have things I can actually build. I subscribe to WOOD because they have things I can build that help me to build things. Case in point - the wonderful band saw table from a recent WOOD issue - I'm nearly done that - and when done I'll have a great circle cutting method for some Shaker pedestal tables that have been requested of me.

[Lee Schierer]

I get Wood, Workbench and American Woodworker.

[Scott Neblung]

Here they are....In my fav order too


Shopnotes....love the tips section

Fine Woodworking....simply awesome

Woodsmith....more tips....someday I hope to build more of these projects.