Comments on: Popular Woodworking’s Protector Steps Down

By: Steve Shanesy

Steve Shanesy — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:01:27 +0000

Hey, Chris, thank you for a wonderful post. It really means a lot to me. We’ve had a good partnership over the years and accomplished a great deal. It hasn’t been easy– but what is?- but it has been good. There have been some pivotal moments on the journey. The late ’90′s when we decided to start seriously changing-up the magazine without getting clearance from “upstairs.” The fateful ride back from Charleston, WV when we hatched the concept of Woodworking Magazine. The decision to take the deep dive into hand tool woodworking when every other magazine treated the subject like a disease. Bringing on Megan as ME (just kidding, Megan). Figuring out just what a Woodworking In America event looked like. And on, and on . . . So, thank you for all your help, your hard work, your dedication, all the ideas you’ve brought to the table, your professionalism.

And thank you readers, contributors and other friends in the business. It’s all- well, mostly all- been a wonderful experience.

Steve

By: djcssl

djcssl — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:03:32 +0000

Thanks so much for the great ideas, how to’s and encouragements that are put into articles, blogs,and opinions expressed. Even the time it takes to answer email questions has made me say “this magazine truely cares about there readers success”.

Thanks so much.

By: netartsdave13

netartsdave13 — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:10:59 +0000

This is a nice tribute to Steve, and I am sure that he deserves it. I hope that his successor is equally devoted to insuring that PW continues on it’s course of quality editorials and articles. But Chris, you and the other staff must also share the responsibility of building a great magazine. Without great writers and photographers and editors and etc., the magazine could have easily languished into the doldrums. So, all of you take your deserved bows, it has been the team that made this magazine what it is today. We all hope that it will continue to grow under the leadership of a new taskmaster; it will be interesting to see how it changes.

By: Rob Porcaro

Rob Porcaro — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 03:59:41 +0000

Thanks, good luck, and best wishes to Steve!

By: Fred West

Fred West — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:22:45 +0000

I first met Steve at the WIA in Valley Forge and had the privilege of having him and Don Schroder to my house that Friday night for dinner. Steve struck me then and since as a very nice person with a great passion for Popular Woodworking. I have thought ever since meeting him that if I were to work for anyone it would be Steve.It is very hard for me to imagine Popular Woodworking without him. Although I only met him a couple of years ago, I had been reading his writings for years. Steve, you will be greatly missed. Fred

By: Derek Cohen

Derek Cohen — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:41:50 +0000

Christopher, that’s about the nicest message you have posted. Thank you for sharing that, and thank Steve from the bottom of our collective hearts.

Kind regards from Perth

Derek

By: rboe

rboe — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:31:37 +0000

Old motorcycles?! Alright! He will not lack for something to do – other than woodworking… Thanks for letting in on one of the “hidden” movers and shakers that allows to still enjoy this site and the magazine. Salute.

By: keithm

keithm — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:14:40 +0000

Best of good fortune to Steve. I’ve known Steve longer than you, based on your description. And I think my contacts at F+W probably even pre-date PopWood. Steve took what was an obscure magazine (or maybe several of them) into the premier woodworking publication today. We’ll miss him, but he leaves a great legacy.

By: blambertjr

blambertjr — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:21:17 +0000

A great example of the thought you both put into woodworking and this magazine was your story about your road trip discussion that led to Woodworking Magzine.

Thanks to both of you!

By: Christopher Schwarz

Christopher Schwarz — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:06:46 +0000

Guy,

Peter doesn’t have a beard. It’s actually a small boxwood bush….