What Magazines do you get

[Ken Garlock]

I have let myself subscribe to a total of 10 wood working magazines, and that is too many. I want to cut back.


OK, No Poll, for some reason my list of 10 magazines was rejected.

I plan on keeping:
Fine Woodworking
Woodwork
Shop Notes
Wood Smith

One that are up for review as their subscriptions expire are:
Woodcraft
American Woodworker
Woodworkers Journal
Workbench
Wood
Popular Woodworking

Your comments are welcome.

[Art Mulder]

What vote?

1- Fine Woodworking
2- Canadian Home Workshop.

[Steven Triggs]

I did a poll on this a little while back. You might want to check it out:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=58820

[Nancy Laird]

1. Fine Woodworking
2. Wood
3. Woodsmith
4. Shop Notes
...and several more.

If we had to cut back, these are the four we would keep.

[Steven Triggs]

Oh, and my thoughts on this, from an email I recently sent a friend who is getting into woodworking:

Fine Woodworking - favorite, but very expensive

Wood - best value, because you can often get 3 years for $28 and it has a lot of content.
I like the magazine a lot, but after subscribing for several years, it is getting somewhat repetitive. For someone who has not read it, I would definitely suggest subscribing for a few years until you start seeing articles that are virtually repeats. Given the cost for my subscription (about $1.50/issue), I keep it going because as long as I enjoy at least every other issue, it is still an outstanding deal.

Popular Woodworking - good

American Woodworker and Woodworker's Journal - I'm new to them, but so far my impression is that they are descent, but not great.

WoodSmith and ShopNotes - I like them, but they seem kind of expensive for the amount of content (probably due to lack of advertising)

[Ken Garlock]

I did a poll on this a little while back. You might want to check it out:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=58820

Thanks Steven, your poll is good input.

[Art Mann]

Fine Woodworking
Shop Notes

[Steve Clardy]

CabinetMaker
Shop Notes
Wood

[Jason Beam]

I have:

Fine Woodworking
Shopnotes
WOOD
Popular Woodworking
American Woodworker

And I just let go of Popular Woodworking.

I would probably rank 'em as:

1. Shopnotes
2. Fine Woodworking
3. WOOD

Then it's a tossup between amwood and popwood.

I'm considering picking up woodsmith or workbench. Gotta sample a few first.

[Jim Becker]

I take Fine Woodworking, Woodworks and Fine Homebuilding. And This Old House Magazine for "library" entertainment...

[Matt Meiser]

I get Wood, Popular Woodworking, Fine Woodworking and Woodsmith. Fine Woodworking has really gone down hill IMHO and Popular Woodworking has really improved. Wood almost always has something of interest. Woodsmith either is interesting or of no interest when it comes since there is so little content--usually just a couple projects and other articles.

[Bill Huber]

Right now I am getting Fine Woodworking and I have been thinking about getting Shop Notes. There are so many post on the forum that say see shop notes ## and then the next one is I saw that in shop notes ##.
So I am thinking of getting it.

[glenn bradley]

I let your expire list go too. I will be geting Wood again as it was a gift. I keep ShopNotes and Woodsmith as do you. I subscribe to the online version of FWW.

[Gary Keedwell]

What vote?

1- Fine Woodworking
2- Canadian Home Workshop.

Is this the same Mulder that has a letter in FWW Mag. about casters? I picked up the Mag from a pile the other nite and said "I recognize that name," I also saw Dave Falkinstein (sp) name in one of them. Gets to be a small world, huh?
Gary K.

[Gary Keedwell]

1. Fine Woodworking
2. Wood
3. Woodsmith
4. Shop Notes
...and several more.

If we had to cut back, these are the four we would keep.

My list looks alot like Nancy"s.

Gary K.