Please Welcome Our New Editor, Matthew Teague

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I’m pleased to announce that Matthew Teague, a long-time writer, editor and furniture maker, will be joining our team to lead Popular Woodworking Magazine.

Matthew brings some excellent credentials to his new job as editor. A third-generation woodworker, he began building furniture with his father long before his mother thought he should be allowed near a table saw. After attending Wofford College in South Carolina and working for five years as a literary editor at The Oxford American magazine, he joined Fine Woodworking magazine. There, he had the chance to learn from and edit some of the country’s best furniture makers.

He rose to managing editor during his seven years in Connecticut, then the lure of the shop drew him to Nashville, Tenn. For the last several years he’s operated his own successful furniture-making business. His designs have been exhibited at the Tennessee State Museum and the Knoxville Museum of Art, and one of his pieces is also part of the permanent collection at the National Museums of Northern Ireland.

When not at his bench, Matthew has continued to write, finding time to author a book (“Getting Started in Woodworking: Projects for Your Shop”) as well as write articles about design, furniture making, home building and other topics for Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding, Outside Magazine, Woodcraft, The Inspired House, Field & Stream and many other magazines.

As impressive as his background is, what I think I like best about Matthew is the dedication he has displayed to the craft of woodworking. He frequently teaches furniture making and design. And he contributes to the future of the industry as a member of The Furniture Society, the Tennessee Arts and Crafts Association and the board of the Cumberland Furniture Guild.

Please join me in welcoming Matthew, his wife, Sarah, and their children, Ava Jean and Locke, to the Popular Woodworking family.

— Kevin Ireland

p.s. Matthew’s e-mail should be set up by Thursday, Dec. 7. You’ll be able to get in touch with him at matthew.teague@fwmedia.com.

Kevin Ireland

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  1. Welcome Matthew. I was subscriber to FWW from issue #1 and watched it fall into something that sort of resembled a woodworking publication. Popular Woodworking is quite close to being what FWW was is the glory days, I do hope your plan is to continue and enhance the high level of quality it has come to represent.

  2. Ever since I read Teague’s article outfitting a one car garage I’ve been a fan. Since we live in Southeast Tennessee it has been my wife’s dream that he’d come arrange my shop into the space of a one car garage so she might park in the other bay. Matthew my address and contact informoation are…

    Glad to have you in Tennessee and in PWM!

  3. Matt, Welcome and I have been a fan of yours for years. I was dishearted when you left FWW. but I liked your articles at FHB. I also caught an article about a workbench for WC. I must admit I was at a loss with Chris leaving but I can not think of a better replacment. Lots of luck and look forward to your new articles.
    Best Wishes
    WR Van Sciver

  4. Welcome, Matt! I’ve read most of your work through the years and have to say I enjoy your thoroughness. What you’ve written about setting up a small shop is probably the main reason my gara…er…shop hasn’t progressed too much, and the reason I don’t have to go back and fix a lot of mistakes! When i get it finished I’ll send you some pictures. Anyway, glad to have you on board! I know you’ll “dovetail” in real well!

  5. Welcome Matthew,
    I am very excited about you coming to PWW. Your book Getting Started in Woodworking is what got me into woodworking. I have always enjoyed your writings and I look forward to seeing what you do here.

    -Gary

  6. Welcome Matthew,

    I have enjoyed and gained woodworking knowledge from you previous work…. and look forward to learning even more from you. Welcome PWW and Cincinnati, Ohio.

    Jerry in Columbus, Ohio

  11. I always thought that the distinction between FWW editors and PW editors was that FWW editors didn’t have enough hair, and PW editors had too much.

    -Steve

      • Sorry, no cigar for you. The truth is that they’re both losing subscribers (just like nearly every other print periodical in existence). And it would appear that PW is losing them quite a bit faster than FWW.

        PW: Average total paid and verified subscriptions, 2008 vs. 2011, from the Publisher’s Statements printed in the Dec 2008 and Nov 2011 issues, is 182,567(2008) vs. 125357(2011), a 31% drop.

        FWW: Average total paid and verified subscriptions, 2008 vs. 2011, from the Publisher’s Statement available as a PDF from the FWW web site, is 180,120(2008) vs. 152,801(2011), a 15% drop.

        If you include newsstand sales, the numbers are a little closer (PW -30% vs. FWW -20%); FWW has taken a bigger hit at the newsstand than PW has.

        And note also that the 2008 numbers for PW don’t include Woodworking Magazine, whereas the 2011 numbers do include any Woodworking subscribers that had their subscriptions transferred to PW, so the PW numbers look at least a little better than they really are.

        -Steve

  12. Welcome Matthew,
    The future of this magazine looks bright. I look forward to seeing how you can build on the excellent foundation that has already been laid by Chris, Bob, Glen, and Megan.

    • Well yes…but I would anyway, as we’re moving to our new shop in about two weeks (and we’ll all have a window and wall at our benches – yay!).

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