What woodworking magazine

[Dogberryjr]

What woodworking magazine(s) does the discerning FOG member read? It's renewal time for me, but maybe there's a new periodical I should be looking at.

 

[GhostFist]

I used to champion Furniture and Cabinetmaking. Their articles haven't been quite as engaging over the past 2 years. Don't get me wrong, it's still good. Just not as good imo. Popular woodworking usually seems to have good articles

 

[Jesse Cloud]

If anyone needs back copies of Fine Woodworking, I'm triaging shop storage and thinking seriously about getting rid of my ten years of FWW magazines.  A dollar a mag and shipping would get them.

 

[jacko9]

Fine Woodworking - I have all issues from #1.  They change focus from time to time but they are always a good read with useful information.

 

[grbmds]

Besides Fine Woodworking, Woodworker's Journal tends to be a good resource for the more practical aspects of woodworking. If you like hand tool work, then Popular Woodworking would be of interest to you. The others only sporadically seem to be a good resource. If you subscribe to the printed Fine Woodworking, then Fine Woodworking Online is at a reduced cost. Most of their old magazine articles are then available to you and other stuff. I have found that, when I'm looking for information on techniques, finishes, tools, furniture design, joints, it's all there online. There's a lot to search. Woodworker's Journal just recently added an online section for their magazine subscribers which is allegedly similar.

 

[chrisrosenb]

I like Woodsmith magazine & Popular Woodworking.

 

[Stone Message]

I subscribed to Fine Woodworking for many years and it is by far the best woodworking magazine that I have ever read. I used to write for one or two UK magazines which were nowhere near the quality of FWW which may, in part, explain the continued demise of such periodicals in this country.

Peter

 

[Billedis]

I subscribed to Fine Woodworking for many years, but now have the digital copy of all the mags,  Great search function.  Bill

 

[nclemmons]

Fine Woodworking and Wordsmith are the ones that I read.  I've subscribed to both since they were started.  I've subscribed to many others through the years but have narrowed down to these two.

I like Fine Woodworking online and also Woodsmith's library that is searchable and any plan / article is downloadable as a PDF.

 

[teocaf]

I've always enjoyed WOODWORK Magazine because it covered a lot more of the artistic side of woodworking.  I always bought it at Barnes and Noble when it was published regularly and some years ago, because I enjoyed it so much, I ordered all the back issues that I had missed--some 600 bucks worth if I remember correctly.  And I ended up reading through the whole lot and tearing out and saving all the articles that interested me.  Alas, they stopped publication and were bought by another woodworking magazine.  Occasionally I've seen a specialty issue put out under the WOODWORK imprint but I'm not sure what the current publication schedule is.  I just looked now and it seems you can get a dvd-rom version of 26 years of the publication for about 80 bucks.  It looks like a super deal for what I thought was a really great magazine:http://www.shopwoodworking.com/woodwork-mag-comp-cd

Also, as I mentioned in another thread, I found out that if your public library subscribes to OverDrive, you can get electronic versions of magazines such as Fine Woodworking and download them to a Nook app reader for whatever tablet or phone you use.  I tested this out and was able to download the latest FWW for free.

 

[sancho57]

I don't see a reason to pay for a magazine b/c I got FOG, Woodworking.com, Ana-White .com, , Pinterest, and a few other sites.

But since I like country furniture, I do subscribe to country sampler. Lot of good ideas in design etc.

 

[Acrobat]

I love Woodsmith. There's the US version and a later Australian version, so I got the Australian one as its projects are in metric. Looks like both mags have the same articles and items to make as well as info on tools setups and maintenance and ideas in the shop. Very good mags with excellent well detailed diagrams for furniture and jigs to build. I've learnt a ton of stuff from reading through them. They are online for back issues etc too.