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List Price: $55.93
Our Price: $34.95
Your Save: $ 20.98 ( 38% )
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 months
Manufacturer: Taunton Press
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 12-16
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 7
Label: Taunton Press
Magazine Type: Trade magazine
Manufacturer: Taunton Press
Number Of Issues: 7
Publisher: Taunton Press
Studio: Taunton Press
Subscription Length: 365
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The magazine for savvy woodworkers--from aspiring beginners to accomplished craftsmen. Contain stimulating design ideas, techniques and projects, ingenious tips and jigs, and great product reviews.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great magazine for any woodworker
Comment: This is, in my opinion, one of the top two or three woodworking magazines in America. Reading it with raise the level of your craft.
(Ammended) I now give it 4 stars (****) I've been subscribing to this magazine for almost over 8 years and I feel that it definitely helped raise the level of my craft significantly in the beginning - and still does today, but to a much lesser extent. I find a lot of the content to be repetitive. The tool reviews are excellent.
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Summary: Poor buisiness practices
Comment: Started my subscription in March of 2008. Got my first copy (April issue) week of April 7th, 2008. Got two more issues (June and February)next week (April 14th.) They had backdated my subscription to January 10, 2008, and had sent me back issues from thier trash bin. I have now gotten six months of magazines in two weeks. I have had them do this also for Fine Home Building and Wooden Boat.
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Summary: Overpriced magazine
Comment: I have been a subscriber for many years, but for $34.95, it just isn't worth it anymore. Woodwork is a better magazine with more original content. I just can't see putting out this much for an advertising based magazine. Look elsewhere, like used books for lasting content for much less. The magazine has always had an "east coast" bias, which is fine, but the lack of diversity of the woodworking styles represented is not excusable in a magazine supposed to be covering the furniture building audience. If you ever can get your hands on some of the earlier copies, you will be amazed at the quality of writers and articles then compared with now.
I would recommend Popular Woodworking if you are interested in hand tools and methods. Seems a little fresher these days. Or for a more artistic bent, look at Woodwork magazine.
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Summary: Repeated Content
Comment: If you subscribe to more than one Taunton Direct publications you will start to see some of the same content repeated. After getting both Fine Woodworking and Fine Homebuilding I'm not suprised to see similar stories.
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Summary: Great resource
Comment: This magazine has something for woodworkers at every level, from raw beginner to professional. The mix of articles includes side by side product comparisons, how-to pieces at different levels, tool sharpening hints, finishing materials and techniques, and photo galleries of magnificent work.
This month, the tool test covers a range of cabinet saws, roughly in the $1K-3K range. It applies the same criteria to each model, with emphasis on the precision of the machine parts - an absolute necessity for precision in the finished work. The nicely echoes another article on setting up your own machine tools, with directions for checking their accuracy for yourself.
Some articles are aimed specifically at the novice, while others clearly assume advanced skills and a well-equipped shop. Speaking as someone with low-to-mid skills, I find both useful. I'm a bit beyond some of the advice, and not ready to use other parts of it, but I like that. It gives me something to look forward to, when I'm free to get back to woodworking again. It's an enjoyable bit of wishful thinking in the mean time, but a lot more presentable than that other kind of "men's magazine".
//wiredweird
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