Derek's posts like the ones on the apothecary chest are as informative as any magazine article I've read.
That said, the new FWW is pretty good. They have a big comparison of sharpening guides and a nice arts and crafts bookcase.
Jason
Derek's posts like the ones on the apothecary chest are as informative as any magazine article I've read.
That said, the new FWW is pretty good. They have a big comparison of sharpening guides and a nice arts and crafts bookcase.
Jason
Yep, Mel was a fun sponge. If I remember right, he was a psychologist for NASA. I guess his job was to determine why astronauts made the decisions they made, but who knows.
I tried to keep the same feel of Knots while having very minimal moderation (if any), so conversations could flow without the fear of being banned like some woodworking forums. It's a shame it never took off.
Last edited by mike v flaim; 02-14-2019 at 9:33 PM.
Some of us think there is none better in the current magazines, amateur or pro. So there. Keep working, keep posting and if you let us know you're being published in one of the mags, a lot of us will pick up a copy at the news stand.
That may not get you a magazine you want to read, but the rest of us would want to read it. Would you deprive us?
And your candor in reporting on fixing problems is far more instructive and useful that the picture perfect projects we typically see in the magazines.
Last edited by James Waldron; 02-15-2019 at 12:24 PM.
Fair winds and following seas,
Jim Waldron
Thank you Jim. I have had several articles published over about a decade, all of which were a result of requests by the magazines themselves. The last was a request by Megan for Pop Wood about two years ago, and there were several for the Australian Wood Review some years ago now (excellent magazine - I think that I mentioned this before).
There is a difference in writing for a magazine and a blog (or forum). The magazine has constraints on space/length. The writer hands over control of editing, and photos as well as paragraphs can get clipped and distorted. This has bothered me in the past. I like writing - it's in my blood. I come from a family with deep roots in this regard (my mother, for one, was a journalist, and a number of close family are or were well-known authors in their areas). We shall see. One day. Maybe.
Regards from Perth
Derek
I have to echo what James says Derek. Your builds a fun to watch even with the whiskers and you not hiding them. Discussions are good also. There are others here doing builds here also. There is not many that I don't see a technique new to me that I want to try.
Jim
I felt the same way about Badger Pond.
I remember starting up a conversation with a woodworker from Hiawassee GA on the Pond. Ended up renting a cabin from his wife for a two week vacation. He showed me how to hand cut dovetails and even took me to his lumber source and helped me choose some hickory and cherry to bring home. Irt was aa real community. When it died I did't find anywhere else until I came here.
Marshall
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A Stickley fan boy.
Badger Pond then became Wood Central (not sure if WC archived The Pond, or was independently new), which was pretty good UNTIL domination by a few started. I remember one guy, from NYC that was the be all expert on everything and he did everything with the newly introduced LV LA jack. Didn't matter who you were, he would tell you how to do it better, using that plane.
If the thunder don't get you, the lightning will.
Well, the April issue of Pop Wood came today. There is a project in it that interests me It is the Shaker Stepladder.
Other than that, it took me about 30 minutes to go through the magazine. I will go through it again to see if anything else pops up.
I think the editors should go through the archives and study the subject matter of the glory days of the magazine.
Ellis Walentine, administrator of WoodCentral, which was already in operation when Badger Pond shut down, established a hand tool forum on WoodCentral to which much of the Badger Pond community migrated (thus the nickname for that forum for a while, "Ellis Island"). At some point, Wayne Miller, Badger Pond's administrator, agreed to have Ellis host the Badger Pond articles and related stuff on WoodCentral. There was even a CD of posts made, although no new ones were made after the initial run.
Bill, lived through that period and (surprising myself!) can still remember some of the details
Thanks Derek for helping out The Burl when you did. Knots is alive and well and has been reincarnated as The Burl.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/burl
Thanks Mike. I have posted on the old/new forum.
Regards from Perth
Derek
For people new to woodworking the articles are probably just fine. The problem comes when we get old and our memory hasn't gone yet. We remember the old articles and often several cycles of repeats of those articles. To us it seems like they are just repeating the same articles over and over. But for newbies it's all new to them.
New or old, I still enjoy the magazines but I usually skim more than I read. For me it's more about the costs than the content these days.
Marshall
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A Stickley fan boy.
Well, the May issue leaves me flat.