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Y’all are funny – picking the winner of the Ridiculous Woodworking Books contest was a difficult task. But I had to choose a winner, so…I chose two. Each of the winners gets a copy of our reprint of David Denning’s “The Art and Craft of Cabinet-Making.”
One is Wittefish’s birdhouse homage to one of my favorite books, “Go the F**k to Sleep,” by Adam Mansbach, illustrated by Ricardo Cortes – of which I’ve bought multiple copies; it’s one of my go-to baby shower gifts. (Also, how fun would it be to spend a day hanging out in the shop with Samuel L. Jackson – I wonder if he knows how to cut dovetails… (which leads me to one of the honorable mention titles: Mike’s “50 New Words to Use While Making Dovetails”).
My other winner – because the literary pun is just too good to not reward – is from Tom Wulber:
Tom had a few others that were contenders, too:
“Tuesdays with Moxon” and “Fo’ Chisel – Woodworking in Mainstream Hip Hop” made me giggle at length. As did wonkothesane’s “Wooden Toys No Child Wants” and bradrubin’s “To Make as Expensively as Possible: Roubo on Book Publishing.” In fact, I got a good chuckle out of most of them.
Thank you so much for the levity – there’s not enough of it these days, it seems.
Wittefish and Tom Wulber, please email me your physical address, and I’ll get your books in the mail right away.
p.s. The Handplane Birdhouse on the first cover is an actual project – for a free PDF download thereof, click: OldPlaneBirdhousePDF (it is not by Samuel L. Jackson, but its author does a decent SLJ impression)
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Love this. Great idea for a goofy, fun contest. Some excellent submissions too. Both winning selections were excellent choices. Finding ways to inject a bit of levity into any situation is a VERY welcomed thing. I hope to see more of this type of thing in the future. Well done Megan!
Great article and pick Megan. Apparently some folks are unfamiliar with the SLJ joke or think comedy isn’t subjective like just about everything else is. I laughed so thank you!
To bad you had to lower your standards and select a winner that had to use f__k in its title in order to make it funny. I’ve never thought that comedians that had to resort to vulgar routines were real comedians and neither do I ascribe to the common use of f__k by today’s younger generation as anything that is even remotely admirable. I hope PW will consider holding to its standards which I have formerly always thought to be high.