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31st May 2019, 09:48 AM #16
Occasionally when passing a newsagent I'll snoop over a ShopNotes magazine, dont know who produces it but it dosent show pics of furniture I can only dream of making with my talents but rather everyday ideas.
I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds
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31st May 2019, 12:06 PM #17I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
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31st May 2019, 12:19 PM #18GOLD MEMBER
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A forum member donated a stack of woodwork mags to me about a year ago. So far I have looked through one. I feel guilty to not have read them (which is probably not something a younger person would understand). If this continues then, I guess I'll eventually need to throw them out - if the dog doesn't destroy them. Sad really.
I used to read novels in bed to put me to sleep. I don't even read those any more.
I watch a lot of YouTube. Particularly if I can't get out to the shed due to other commitments.
I guess the future is where viewers voluntarily support the content that they like. The current problem with that, is that small niche content creators get almost no visibility. Something like 80+% of views on YouTube are directed to <3% of the creators. This is a problem.
Magazines allowed a lot of niche subjects to be commercially viable, even if it was inefficient.My YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/2_KPRN6I9SE
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Video tuition is the future, that much is very plain. The problem is when someone comes in cold to a new past time/hobby they do not know enough to ignore the idiots and find the good stuff that will educate them the right way. I guess there a under a few dozen woodworkers on YT worth watching but others might disagree.
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31st May 2019, 04:52 PM #20rrich Guest
Publication of ShopNotes ended about 5 years ago when they abruptly stopped publishing. IIRC they added my extra issues to Woodsmith. It was a great magazine for the woodworker that was a bit tight on money and needed to improvise in the shop. I think that I enjoyed ShopNotes more than Woodsmith.
Perhaps something else I can add to the magazine saga.
In a conversation with a publisher I asked why they didn't buy out a magazine that was in difficulty and probably about to cease. He told me that the debts overwhelmed the value of the magazine. We also talked about the business in general. He was saying that very few subscribers continue beyond 10 years. He put reality this way: "The Egyptians invented the tenon about 30 centuries ago. How many new ways are there to cut a tenon?" Since the internet and online videos the publishing business is tough.
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31st May 2019, 09:45 PM #21GOLD MEMBER
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Yeah I disagree. I suppose it depends why you are watching but I think for most people it is for inspiration etc rather than specific instruction. And inspiration comes in thousands of forms. Watching and sharing what other people are doing hopefully encourages more people to get out and tinker in the shed. Something that I think was slowly dying up until recent years.
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31st May 2019, 09:58 PM #22
Dave have a look in the susty thread about 'The best how not to do it................."
Seriously the guy is a complete pratt, to be nice, what a dam stupid way to clean dust, but he has put this up and some people will watch and think its the correct way.
I wonder id we will get to the time when someones lawyer takes a YT producer to court for false and misleading teaching and information. Now thats a hairy thought.I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds
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8th June 2019, 10:57 PM #23
I baught all sorts of magazines, from many countries.
Fine woodworking was the only one that seemed to have any depth or originality.
The rest suffer from poor method, repetition, crappy presentation ....... some simply had very little content a/ for the money b/to keep the adds apart.
I have fine woodworking back into the single digits & stopped subscribing about 10 years ago.
One thing did notice was stuff I had seen in FWW, popping up in other magazines and in TV shows.
I subscribed to Australian Wood Review for many years ...... but it was more voguey than educational.
The magazines especially the better ones still had more depth and authority than the utube vids.
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Most powertools have sharp teeth.
People are made of meat.
Abrasives can be just as dangerous as a blade.....and 10 times more painfull.
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9th June 2019, 03:21 PM #25SENIOR MEMBER
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I subscribe to Fine Woodworking for their excellent articles, tips and useful online instruction. Also Aust. Wood Review which contains fewer articles of interest but often pictures of modern design pieces using locally available timber. Useful articles are cut out and filed but rarely used for reference because YouTube is just so good.
I'm another compulsive reader as is SWMBO. For cost reasons, I use a Kindle for light reading but prefer hard copy for history or any other topics where maps, photos or diagrams accompany the text. Of course, that includes woodworking. Newspapers are online.
Apparently, we use different neural pathways when reading from a screen or printed copy. I don't know which is better for comprehension or retention.
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9th June 2019, 05:37 PM #26
If there are woodsmith mags among them and you get to the point of chucking them I may buy a few. Better than them being binned.
I actually bought woodsmith the other day after this thread. Only spent about 15 minutes reading a couple of articles. I do refer to my old editions though occasionally...I'm just a startled bunny in the headlights of life. L.J. Young.
We live in a free country. We have freedom of choice. You can choose to agree with me, or you can choose to be wrong.
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