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30th November 2005, 07:17 PM #1.
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Worst & Best Woodwork Mag
Worst ever - Australian Woodworker..... So Ho-hum
Best Ever - Tauntons Home Furniture. - Started around `95 and went for about four years. The mag was to specialised and catered mainly for the upper end, no "How-to" articles except at the back when it would give a run down on a tricky tecnique. Unfortunatly it didnt have the circulation to continue and was gobbled up by FWW:mad: At least i have the complete back catalouge, and im still refering to them for referance, they were superb
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30th November 2005, 07:23 PM #2Registered
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Worst ever.
Quasimodos Comfy Furniture.
It was the pits, ya had to have a hump on ya back for the things to be comfy.
Al :eek:
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30th November 2005, 07:23 PM #3
G'day Lignum!
At least FWW is still going strong, and it's pretty good! Agree that AW is right down there with the comics. AWR isn't too bad, and sometimes even quite good.
In a related genre, but different medium, WW@H (the bi-monthly DVD) is reasonably good, even if it has a very American flavour. Duh!
What about publishing this forum on a monthly basis to the great unwashed? Best of the Best, Al, and, um, Al! :eek:
Cheers!
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30th November 2005, 07:26 PM #4
AWW is absolute YUK.
Agree about Tauntons Home Furniture
Reckon the best allround mag catering for various skill levels from raw beginner to full blown craftsman was the uk Practical Woodworker by Sterling Publishing. Even better than Fww.
Quite like Oz woodsmith though.
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30th November 2005, 07:28 PM #5
You may want to check this thread out and save yourself the heartache
There was a young boy called Wyatt
Who was awfully quiet
And then one day
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Because he overused White
Floorsanding in Canberra and Albury.....
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30th November 2005, 07:31 PM #6
Home Furniture was excellent. I envy your collection.
I do think that Popular Woodworking has turned the corner with the new editorial staff. What used to be a fairly junky magazine is good to brilliant.
If you haven't see the "Woodworking Magazine" from the same editorial team as Popular Woodworking, it is well worth a look. The current issue is still in the newsagents but there are free PDF versions of previous issues that are out of print. However, I think the current issue is the one where they have started to hit their straps.
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30th November 2005, 07:32 PM #7.
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Id have inexcess of 500 mags and stacks of books, been buying them for years, now i just read them in the Newsagent and if something special is their i will get it.
`But cause im all maged out, i still like a bedtime read and find myself only buying 2 now. Shopnotes and Better homes and garden WOOD i like that as an interestin light hearted read, and it dosnt take its self to seresly, and has good mission possitions --- i mean projects
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I stopped buying any/all of them, because they are all just rehacked yank crap.
Except for the Quasimodo yearly, which I still get.
Al
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30th November 2005, 07:39 PM #9Originally Posted by namtrak
We've been there and done that. I don't think much has changed.
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30th November 2005, 07:42 PM #10.
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Originally Posted by craigb
Some of us wernt.
AW and AWR combined for 41% of the votes---- id like to think the current forum members would have more taste now than back then...
and reading old posts is like videoing the news on a monday and watching it again on friday
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30th November 2005, 07:50 PM #11Originally Posted by Lignum
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30th November 2005, 07:57 PM #12.
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Originally Posted by craigb
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30th November 2005, 09:37 PM #13Originally Posted by Lignum
You didn't explain why you think that forum members have more taste now than
back then though.
Have there really been that more mags appear in the last 18 months?
Not in my newsagent there haven't.
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30th November 2005, 10:26 PM #14
Fww
Originally Posted by Auld BassoonIf you never made a mistake, you never made anything!
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30th November 2005, 10:28 PM #15Originally Posted by Shedhand
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