Hand tool periodical . . .

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Paul M. in San Diego


>There are only two magazines that I've found that come close to having an interesting content for a hand-tool junkie like me...

1) Popular Woodworking has had a major change of heart a year ago. It's now at least 33% hand tool content. It will never be 100%, but it's as close as viably possible. I believe that a 100% hand-tool magazine would last all of 5 issues before folding due to lack of subscribers. There just ain't enough of us!

2) Woodwork magazine. This gets a bit artsy, but most artsy projects require a lot of hand tool usage. So this feeds my desire for information on both design and hand-tool usage pretty well. This is the only magazine that I longingly look forward to recieving. Check out the latest cover shot below. It's not often that you see a spokeshave in use on the cover of a magazine.

I'm still getting FWW, but I'm waiting for the subscription to run out. The last issue had a lot of Lee Valley item sightings in it, but the overall hand-tool content is pretty minimal.


Woodwork Magazine

Whoops, not a spokeshave

Paul M. in San Diego


>I just looked at the cover again and I see it's a sureform. My bad...

Re: Hand tool periodical . . .

mikew


>Hi Steve,

Tehre is also Popular Woodworking Magazine's sister publication, Wood Working Magazine. Gets confusing to me all the similar names.

And then there is the Fine Tool Journal, which carries articles more about vintage too research and new tools/makers than using them. More of a, well, journal.

I'm going to try the link thing in the text, but seems I usually screw it up. So you may need to copy and paste URLs...

Fine Tool Journal

Wood Working Magazine

Take care, Mike

Mike ?

Steve Mackay


>Hey, that worked good ! The Fine Tool Journal . . . you like ? Is it monthly ?

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Jack Guzman from Maine


>Also---"Woodworking" published by Popular Woodworking.No ads and mostly hand tool content. ---Jack

Re: Mike ?

mikew


>Hi Steve, I do like it. Basically I had put off subscribing for a long time because I'm cheap--and I could always borrow a friend's copy too.

But I'm glad I have it. Hey, tell you what. If you email me your address, I'll send you a few copies to look at if yo'll send them back after you make a decision. That way you'll kow if it's your cup of tea.

I always find something interesting concerning old tools, even if they aren't the kind of tools which I, er, collect/use...

Take care, Mike

Re: Mike ?

mikew


>PS--that the links worked is amazing. Must have held my mouth just right...Mike

Re: Hand tool periodical . . .

thomd


>I have a love hate relationship with magazines. I like to buy them, hate to get rid of the better ones, and am roundly disappointed with what is available, since FWW tipped into the dumpster, etc...

Really, with what is on the web, there is little in magazines that really has caught up. I'm moving to books, not that in woodworking there is that much to choose from there either. But the average magazine, at least in Can dollar is pretty close to 10 bucks these days, for that there is more interesting stuff in books. Anthony Guidice did a hand tool series in Woodwork, it was interesting, if not convincing, then he brougth out his hand tool skills book. You can buy the book, the seven essentials, for $11.67, which is really a better deal?

I just read the Facts and Mysteries concluding paragraph, and them move on, unless there are a half dozen articles I want to read. I hope there is a F & M book (I mean I would like to read the whole article, but there are a lot of little mouths to McNugget).

The best woodworking stuff in mags was in the early years of FWW, but a seminal article on something like plane tuning, say Ted Chase, wouldn't hold up that well to the average thread here, people have just moved on so far. You don't need to hand tune a lot of the stuff that was necesarry to get a shaving a while back.

An all hand tool preriodical may become necesarry soon. Is the market for a HTP really smaller than for Primative Archery. I don't think there is a primative archery store anywhere in my province, or maybe even the country, but every block sells hand tools. At some point enough people will have built the blizard of bench plan projects every second mag has, and they will get around to the idea that hand tools are actually better than power tools for many tasks and circumstances, then maybe we will see something.

Righ now a lot of stuff is concentrated on features like extreme planing, that while interesting are really not used. And anyway there have probably been 100 plane tuning articles.

Those are my two choices, too.

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

Re: Mike ?

Steve Mackay


>LOL ! Yes, the Devil Box is a fickle creation ! Naw, you've sold me already ! I looked at the site and, what, thirty bucks (?) is way withn reason with such glowing reviews ! Thanks for the very considerate offer though.

Re: Hand tool periodical . . .

Steve Mackay


>Very true ! I've found that my problem is that EVERYONE with a editor, reporter, or writer sign on their desk now feels the need for political comment. ( Sorry. Mini-rant? )

Yep, I look forward to those 2 every month

Doug Littlejohn

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