Product Description: 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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Challenges Your Skills
I have been a subscriber since the premier issue in 1975. Back then my workshop was a 4 by 8 foot room in front of my carport and my only power tool was an electric drill. The second issue prompted me to make my first hand cut dovetails. The main benefit I still get out of the magazine is it gives me the confidence to try new projects that demand new skills. While I buy Woodwork regularly, and occasionally other magazines at the news stand, Fine Woodworking is the only magazine I subscribe to year after year.
Rating: - The pinnacle has lost its point
Fine Woodworking (FWW) was the pre-emininent woodworking magazine for the craftsman market in the US for many years. From a sales standpoint, it probably still is. From an overall quality and value standpoint, it is not.
Breaking it down into a few categories:
Production qualities - still excellent. FWW is a beautiful magazine. Pictures are usually superb. Writing is good to excellent and editing is air-tight.
Depth of articles - fallen over the years. Second now to Woodwork magazine.
Tool reviews - generally good, but often aren't always ... Read More
Rating: - Great magazine for any woodworker
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.
Rating: - Poor buisiness practices
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.
Rating: - Overpriced magazine
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 ... Read More
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