Comments on: Please Welcome Our New Editor, Matthew Teague

By: Dusty

Dusty — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:23:39 +0000

I don’t smoke but thanks anyway.

By: Napie

Napie — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:21:31 +0000

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.

By: Steve-o

Steve-o — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:18:00 +0000

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!

By: wrvansciver

wrvansciver — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:00:27 +0000

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

By: Stuart Hough

Stuart Hough — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:37:58 +0000

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!

By: DeGauss

DeGauss — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:07:58 +0000

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

By: Steve_OH

Steve_OH — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:20:41 +0000

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

By: woodwrkr4800

woodwrkr4800 — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:05:05 +0000

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

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:49:38 +0000

I thought the distinction was FWW was losing subscribers and PW was gaining them.

By: almartin

almartin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:02:19 +0000

Welcome, Matthew.