Comments on: It Ain’t Flippin’ Burgers

By: Jonas Jensen

Jonas Jensen — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:26:19 +0000

Welcome back Glen.
I am lookling forward to reading more articles from your hand, and seeing more great projects built in a no nonsense way.
Brgds
Jonas

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:54:16 +0000

Well, all I can say is that I hope the content will convince you to stay with us – and then if you and enough folks do, then we may be able to do something about the paper. My job is to make the content so robust that you’ll at least consider it.

By: gumpbelly

gumpbelly — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:29:03 +0000

Mag went to #)$*%(% about the time recently departed came, and also about the same time recent publisher came, so my tally shows one down, one to go.

It is good to see Glen back where he belongs, and awesome to see Megan finally where she should have been after Chris left. However I can`t do online mags, do not like scrolling round, I`m a page turner, and with the crappy paper, and poor ink that just refuses to stay on the crappy paper I`m also riding out my subscription, and that sux.

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:36:11 +0000

Jon,

To be fair, paper quality and number of signatures (pages) are out of the editorial staff’s control (I would very much like to add a signature or two, but until we entice a lot more subscribers or a lot more advertisers (or both), I have no economic argument on which to stand).

What the editorial staff can control is the quality of content in every issue. On that front, we’ll do our best to deliver excellence.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:07:06 +0000

I’ll agree with most of the above. PWW did take a turn for the worse over the last year, not so much in the subject matter, but definitely in the amount of content per issue, and even the quality of the paper it was printed on. I’m not sure how much of that was due to the efforts of the recently departed editor, but the change for the worse really seemed to coincide with his time at the helm.
It gave the air of a magazine on its deathbed.
So hopefully Glen and Megan can get things turned towards what the long term readers expect.

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:07:29 +0000

Cosmo,

We’re going to start putting more Q&As online – and we’re happy to answer any WW or tool questions you might have. Please don’t hesitate to ask!

By: Cosmo

Cosmo — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:13:50 +0000

Glen,
As a novice woodworker and one who would like to do most of his woodworking with hand tools, I would like to see more articles covering all aspects of hand tools.
I inherited as vast array of tools that were my Dad’s and my Grandfather’s. Some of the tools were almost pristine while others required hours and hours of work to bring to a usable condition. Most of the knowledge to do the restorations came from reading PWM and books DVDs from your store.
Again, my personal desire is to see lots more hand tool articles. Also an expanded Questions & Answers page would be nice.
Cosmo

By: jerryolson19

jerryolson19 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:18:41 +0000

Welcome back Glen I have missed you and your sensible approach to woodworking. I too feel that I can create 18th century furniture using 21st century tools and techniques. I own and treasure many hand tools and I enjoy using them. I am not a slave to them. Table saws, jointers, planers and routers all have their use in my shop. In addition to paraphrase the great senator from Texas, Phil Graham, “I own more tools than I need, but less than I want”.

By: JohnH

JohnH — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:51:18 +0000

Glen,

I hate to offer a contrasting view, but sometimes change can be bad. Not necessarily for you, but for the magazine. A while back I was searching through some back issues of PopWood (10-12 year old issues) and was amazed at the difference between the old issues and the current ones. At some point last year I started tossing the current issue of PopWood after reading it instead of adding it to my archive. I just did the same thing to my renewal notice. I’d never done that in the past – ever, even with the failed Woodworking magazine.

So my comment would be to go back and look at some of those old issues and compare the content to the current ones.

Good luck in your return.

By: robert

robert — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:54:30 +0000

If you don’t like change, imagine how you are going to feel about obsolescence.