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.
Woodworker's Manuals 1961-1970
(For statistics on numbers of woodworker's manuals published decade by
decade, see
manuals access page.) More and more frequently,
copies of woodworker's manuals are being
digitized and uploaded to the Internet by Google
Books. I try to keep up with these events, and
indicate appropriately the titles of
woodworker's manuals that can be read on the
Web, but it is a large job, so I ask that
readers inform me if they encounter webbased
manuals.
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