Best Woodworking Magazine ?

[Ken Milhinch]

Please consider, if you had to choose only one magazine, which would it be. If you choose "other", please specify which one. I have tried some of those listed, and frankly, became either bored or disinterested in them.

[Syd Lorandeau]

Hi,
Other -- Wood Mag

[Robert foster]

Shopnotes for me.

[Joe Trotter]

Wood magazine for me

[Steve Rozmiarek]

I have tried some of those listed, and frankly, became either bored or disinterested in them.

I agree. I used to think that I was just getting too busy to enjoy FWW anymore, but a look back at old issues makes me think, just like everything else, it's being dumbed down to appeal to a wider audience. I will not renew, but people keep giving it as a gift.

[Paul Demetropoulos]

I've been getting FWW and FHB for a long time. FHB has always been geared more to pros but FWW always had a more varied readership. I dropped my subscription for about a year but just started it again, I missed reading articles by Steve Latta, Gary Rowgowski, John White, etc. I still think they offer something other magazines don't.

I think it was just the economics of the marketplace that forced them to shoot for a wider audience. Many publications are in big trouble. One of my long time favorites has been PC Magazine, they just published their last issue. I saw that magazine go from one geared to computer nerds, to a more general audience of pc enthusiasts, to finally the point where half the articles were reveiws of consumer products. They couldn't exist appealing to a small group computer geeks.

I've always thought that FWW was overpriced, it's 8 or 9 dollars on the newstand now. And as much as the subsciption is, I think that subscribers should have greater access to the website.

[William OConnell]

Wood magazine for me

Me too I like wood magazine more so than the others. It may be to artsy for some but I like it

[Greg Hines, MD]

Other- Shopnotes.

[Brian Kerley]

Me too I like wood magazine more so than the others. It may be to artsy for some but I like it

The thing I don't like about Wood mag (which subsequently is what many like about it) is that it seems to be geared towards the beginner woodworker, whose only tools are a circular saw or table saw, and a hand drill. A little too basic for me. I want to see things that will show me different techniques that I may not already know, as well as some really amazing designs that I might be able to incorporate parts of into my own designs.

[Dave Lehnert]

I like Popular Woodworking. I enjoy the focus on hand tools.

Fine woodworking, as I have said in another post, has got my last dime. Start a subscription and sent me 3 old issues in two day and never did get the next issue. I did receive the latests issue but now I am at the end of my Subscription and I just got started.

[Tom Veatch]

+1 for Shop Notes

[Steve Vaughn]

I've only received two issues but I like Wood magazine.

Steve

[Danny Thompson]

I skip the printed version and, instead, subscribe solely to the FWW website.

All the content of the printed version, and then some. Plus an searchable index of however many years of content (I recently pulled up a James Krenov article from 1979). Accessible from anywhere. Print, and reprint. Save PDFs. Etc. A great resource.

[Clifford Mescher]

The thing I don't like about Wood mag (which subsequently is what many like about it) is that it seems to be geared towards the beginner woodworker, whose only tools are a circular saw or table saw, and a hand drill. A little too basic for me. I want to see things that will show me different techniques that I may not already know, as well as some really amazing designs that I might be able to incorporate parts of into my own designs.

Other-WOOD I think alot of their projects are more complicated then people give them credit. Clifford

[Ken Milhinch]

Thank you all for your inputs so far. Interesting that the poll results show Popular Woodworking & Fine Woodworking to be the overwhelming leaders, yet for me, those were the two I least enjoyed. The next one I was going to try, was American Woodworker, but it hasn't got a vote yet

P.S. I have now discovered that American Woodworker and Wood Magazine do not do overseas subscriptions. (Shop Notes was one of the first I sampled and quickly dropped.) Seems like I will have to content myself with reading the newspapers.