Jan uary Popular Woodworking

Re: Jan uary Popular Woodworking

Jay Hanks

>There is a special Hand Tool issuie that isnt part of the subscription that may be what you have heard about.

A "Best Of" Issue and a Small Request

Christopher Schwarz

>The "Hand Tools in ther Modern Shop" issue is almost entirely composed of articles from the last four years of Popular Woodworking by Don McConnell, Lonnie Bird, Graham Blackburn and myself. The issue is not mailed to subscribers and is for sale only on the newsstand and on our website.

There's only one new feature story in there � and it evangelizes about why hand tools are relevant in this electron-burning world. It is preaching to this choir. Plus there's a picture of me at age 8 with my first workbench. And yes, the bench is made of pine (hey, at least I'm consistent). And no, I don't think I put those deep chamfers on my dog holes on that bench -- that came much later.

If you've followed our magazine for the last few years, you won't find much new there. I'd stay home.

But (and here's the small request) if you know someone who might be teetering on the brink of the slippery slope, I'd appreciate you pointing them to the issue to see if it might be something they'd be interested in reading.

Here's why: Truthfully, there is some skepticism that this particular issue will sell at all or that people are seriously interested in hand tools. I hope they're wrong.

Back to the shop.

Chris

Re: A "Best Of" Issue and a Small Request

Dan Clermont in Burnaby

>I just might have to sneak by a news stand and take a peak at Chris when he was 8 ;) Bet he stood 6 feet tall back then

Thanks Chris, I have been a subscriber for 2 years and bought the mag at a news stand before that so I am probably fine

Cheers

Dan CLermont

Re: A "Best Of" Issue and a Small Request

Jim Shaver - Oakville, Ontario

>Ahh, but the question is, Did he need a shave then too??

LOL!!!

:-)

take care,

Jim

Lack of information issue?

Denis Ch�nard, Orl�ans, Ont.

>I know some people who actually work wood quite a bit yet don't know about the dark side because hand tools don't get publicized as much as the power tools, which appear every week in the big box store flyers.

Or, they believe that hand tools are too difficult and complicated to use. Once they get over that hump the mind set changes.

My BIL makes harpsichords and other instruments, and doesn't have a single decent handplane to work with. When his parents moved from their house to a retirement home there was his late grandfather's old tool box lying in a shed, nobody cared for it. I took it home with me, and this summer I de-rusted, cleaned and tuned some of the tools in there. I now have a Stanley 6C that takes full-width shavings in pine, a Millers Falls #85 that only needs a lever cap to go back to work, and a number of other tools. These would have been thrown in the garbage had I not been there.

So I think I will get a couple of that special issue for myself and for my BIL. At the same time I think I'll give him the Stanley, after all it was his grandfather's, and I have a few other planes...

DC

Re: A "Best Of" Issue and a Small Request

Jay Hanks

>"If you've followed our magazine for the last few years, you won't find much new there. I'd stay home."

No offense Chris but I would disagree, I find it easier to be these " compliations" than go back over 4 years worth of magazine's to find a certain article. That isnt what some people want but for me that is why I buy them.

Re: A "Best Of" Issue and a Small Request

David Charters (Durham, NC)

>For a non subscriber I think it's great. My sister gave up on getting me subscriptions to FWW and I am too cheap to get my own. Lately I have been looking through old issues and feeling like there is little for me in there. Mostly power tool work. I am going to run out and get this hand tool issue just to get a bunch of pics of galoots like me using hand tools. Heck I may not learn much new, but it's good eye candy. I find myself looking at my old FWW's and just looking in the background of the pics hoping to see a plane or a chisel!

Chris, I picked up a copy yesterday...

Ted Owen, Pittsburgh

>and it is one of the most enjoyable issues of any magazine I've ever read. I certainly hope it does sell well for you, as it may become a classic of hand tool use. How helpful to have that information in one place.

Definitely a permanent keeper. Congratulations.

Best, Ted

Agree, it kicks butt (chisels)

Frank D. in Montreal

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Picked one up today

BarbS, Wenatchee WA

>after this discussion, and it's a good read. Surprising how many articles I'd forgotten over the four year period of the regular magazine. Chris, why not suggest they keep this one in print and just re-issue it over a six month period, to see how well the rumor mill spreads its availablility? Locally, our stores often only stock six or eight copies of an issue, and it's too soon gone. That one is definitely a keeper.

Re: Jan uary Popular Woodworking

Stephen Kirk in Quakertown PA

>I don't subscribe to PWW yet, but I did pick up this issue when I saw it on the newstand. I really enjoyed reading it, and I will probably reread it a coupld of time. If I know anyone interested I'll tell them.

"Surprising how many articles I'd forgotten..."

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>You must be younger than I, Barb. Finding I've forgotten something I read before no longer surprises me at all. In fact, it's almost comforting, because it means I'll never run out of interesting reading.

Re: Jan uary Popular Woodworking

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native now in Jax Fl.

>I bought a copy of this issue as well. Yes, I have the info that's in it in other books, but bought it anyhow. Got it tucked away out in the shop right now, so when I get around to wanting to know something it'll be handy.

Keep up the good work Chris.

Todd O.

not good for a book reviewer! :-)

BarbS, Wenatchee WA

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Found It Yesterday At Woodcraft

Jerry White

>and picked up a copy!! I found the issue to be extremely interesting. Thanks to all on this thread, for otherwise I probably would not have been alert to look for it, as I am a subscriber and seldom look at the magazines in the stores.

Chris, I think the issue would be of interest even to those who have seen the articles in the past, simply to have all these inside one cover. Then there are those such as myself, who are stricken with CRS disease, and can enjoy articles over and over.