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  1. 30th November 2005, 07:17 PM #1
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    Default 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by namtrak
    You may want to check this thread out and save yourself the heartache
    Yep.

    We've been there and done that. I don't think much has changed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by craigb
    Yep.

    We've been there and done that. I don't think much has changed.

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Lignum
    id like to think the current forum members would have more taste now than back then...
    Why?
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    Quote Originally Posted by craigb
    Why?
    Well already their has been readers say AW and AWR arnt much chop, and since that post lots of more mags have apeared on the stands, and as was posted above Mark told us Popular Woodworking has new editorial! that wasnt in the other, All told of the DVD Mag, thats new... If you arnt interested just ignore this thread
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lignum
    Well already their has been readers say AW and AWR arnt much chop, and since that post lots of more mags have apeared on the stands, and as was posted above Mark told us Popular Woodworking has new editorial! that wasnt in the other, All told of the DVD Mag, thats new... If you arnt interested just ignore this thread
    Well I think those sentiments were also expressed in the original thread.

    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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    Question Fww

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    G'day Lignum!

    At least FWW is still going strong,

    Cheers!
    What's FWW...hate acronyms....:confused:
    If you never made a mistake, you never made anything!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shedhand
    What's FWW...hate acronyms....:confused:
    Fine Woodworking magazine
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