American Woodworker is done

cincinnati · Post by **cincinnati** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 2:53 pm

The last issue of American Woodworker magazine is Aug/Sept. 2014

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bffulgham · Post by **bffulgham** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 5:30 pm

Well, shucky-darn. I had recently done a subscription to it because Glen Huey had taken over one of the top editor roles (got the June/July issue a couple of weeks ago). Guess they decided it needed too much overhauling. Hope they bring the contributing authors over to Pop Wood....
Mario Rodriguez, Doug Stowe, etc.

cincinnati · Post by **cincinnati** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:04 pm

bffulgham wrote:Well, shucky-darn. I had recently done a subscription to it because Glen Huey had taken over one of the top editor roles (got the June/July issue a couple of weeks ago). Guess they decided it needed too much overhauling. Hope they bring the contributing authors over to Pop Wood....
Mario Rodriguez, Doug Stowe, etc.

I was at the Popular Woodworking shop about a month or two ago. Glen Huey said everything from AW was going to be done out of the Pop Wood office in Cincinnati. But he acted like the two magazines were going forward. Guess the top brass had other ideas.

ryanbp01 · Post by **ryanbp01** » Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:00 pm

After reading the article I wonder if the publisher will extend Popular Woodworking for those of us who already subscribe to both?

BPR

Ed in Tampa · Post by **Ed in Tampa** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:53 am

This is probably a question asked too late but I never saw what you evidently see in this magazine or Popular Wood Working.

To me American Woodworking was patterned after Fine Wood Working only not as elegant. Which to me made no sense. If you want a wood working mag buy one if you want elegant wood working by Fine Wood Working and be done with it.

As for Popular Wood working I found it to be a parrot of the rest. If Wood Mag did a tablesaw test you can bet PW would have one in the issue or two reporting nothing more than Wood already did. If Wood mag does an article on craving you can be sure PW will have one in the next issue or two.

To me Wood mag is the best for the average woodworker also Woodsmith and Shopnotes fill in places that Wood Mag doesn't cover. If you want to read about high class elegant woodworking then get Fine Wood Working.

After these four the rest to me are also runs.

That said if trends continue in the direction they seem to be going the whole decision on magazines will be for nothing. I think subscriptions have fallen drastically for every mag. Many are stopping paper printing and turning to online viewing. Which is great but not very practical for serious library reading (in the can)

nuhobby · Post by **nuhobby** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:08 am

I see Popular Woodworking as the chief hand-tool proponent in the last few years. That's an area of woodworking which is picking up a lot of new people. There is a demographic and there is money there.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:14 am

American Woodworker is gone. If it had not been for the posts to this thread, I would never have noticed.

Take away Wood and I'll notice. Wood is the only magazine I now subscribe to. I dropped Shopnotes and Woodsmith a few years back due to budget demands.

I regret dropping both of them but I'll not reestablish my subscriptions. I now sit in the Starbucks next to Barnes and Noble and read those two at least twice a month. I also spend some time reading Home Shop Machinist while I am there.

It is not uncommon for me to leave Barnes and Noble with a copy of Shopnotes.

Ed in Tampa · Post by **Ed in Tampa** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 1:01 pm

nuhobby wrote:I see Popular Woodworking as the chief hand-tool proponent in the last few years. That's an area of woodworking which is picking up a lot of new people. There is a demographic and there is money there.

I hadn't been aware of that. The newstand I most often frequent had stopped carrying the mag years ago. I will hunt down an issue and look it over.

As I said the mag industry is changing. I seems almost every month another mag bites the dust. The only things that seem to thrive are the ones that appeal to teeny boppers and those that portray "real" life romance, betrayals, disasters, and down right scandal. Oh and of course the porn, near porn and wantabe porn, and almost but not quite porn.

bffulgham · Post by **bffulgham** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 4:23 pm

ryanbp01 wrote:After reading the article I wonder if the publisher will extend Popular Woodworking for those of us who already subscribe to both?

BPR

I suspect the answer is "yes". That's what they did for me when they shut down "Woodworking" several years ago.

cincinnati · Post by **cincinnati** » Sat Jun 21, 2014 9:50 pm

If you have not looked at Popular Woodworking in the last few years, check it out again. Like the other post said, It is mostly hand tool woodworking now. Popular Woodworking is here in Cincinnati so I have been to their shop many times. I think they are doing some great things for woodworking. Their Woodworking In America show is something to check out.
http://www.woodworkinginamerica.com/eho ... id=179439&