Magazines and newspapers with
woodworking content
Both Popular Mechanics
and Popular Science -- , very successfully launched in the 19th
century, contained articles on woodworking,
either about tools and/or projects for
woodworkers.
Home Craftsman, intitiated in the
1930s as an organ for Walker-Turner home power
tools, died in 1965.
The Whole Earth
Catalog is a non-woodworking serial, but a testament of
another era’s culture, i.e., the counter-culture
of the 1960s and 1970s. The Whole Earth
Catalog's editor, Stewart Brand, used a savvy wisdom, and insisted upon
a broad interpretation of the kinds of
materials the WEC covered; among the pot pourri of topcs covered, issue by issue, woodworking
tools, woodworking processes, and if I remember
correctly, even woodworking projects graced its
pages.
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oodworker's Manuals 1961-1970
For statistics on numbers of woodworker's manuals published decade by
ecade, see
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anuals access page.) More and more frequently,
opies of woodworker's manuals are being
igitized and uploaded to the Internet by Google
ooks. I try to keep up with these events, and
ndicate appropriately the titles of
oodworker's manuals that can be read on the
eb, but it is a large job, so I ask that
eaders inform me if they encounter webbased
manuals.
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