Subject: Re: Shopnotes... Worth buying the set?

From: [email-masked] (Cliff Zevenbergen)
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 20:46:06 GMT

Check out their web site at http://www.shopnotes.com.  You can do
searches of their past issues and see what there is in the areas that
you want to work in.

If you don't have that kind of time and want an immediate answer.
YES.  

Cliff Zevenbergen
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On Fri, 07 Feb 1997 16:35:20 -0600, "Michael R. Dow" <[email-masked]>
wrote:

>Ok, so I'm a newbie (as you may have seen from other posts...)  Should I
>get the ShopNotes backissues for $80?
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From: [email-masked] (Jon A Rouleau)
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 23:29:35 GMT

On Fri, 07 Feb 1997 16:35:20 -0600, "Michael R. Dow" <[email-masked]>
wrote:

>why not check the index and get the copies that interrest you

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From: Scott Post <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:12:02 -0500

> Michael R. Dow wrote:

It depends on what you want to do.  I dropped my ShopNotes subscription
after the first year because the stuff they built bordered on the
ridiculous.  They seemed to go to extraordinary effort to come up with
unnecessary jigs and fixtures.  I like to build furniture - not jigs.

I prefer Woodsmith's approach.  They give plans for what are usually nice
looking pieces, then show how to build a jig or two that directly apply
to the project.

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Scott Post   [email-masked]
http://www.netusa1.net/~spost

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 04:19:41 GMT

In Shopnotes behalf as a basic beginner I find the tip section
helpful. I am lucky I guess living in the home city for both
publications (Des Moines) and the local Woodsmith store stocks back
issues of both.
Mike

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 13 Feb 1997 08:06:36 -0700

>unnecessary jigs and fixtures.  I like to build furniture - not jigs.

   Couldn't have said it better myself
the bit on what you like to do.
 I enjoy more the building of jigs and
fixtures rather than furniture so I 
think Shop Notes is great. Have subscribed
since Vol 1  No. 1
  Never built any of the projects exactly
as shown but have found a lot of ideas
that have been usefull.
  SO it all depends, (no one else can blow your nose for you.)
    ...lew...

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 15 Feb 1997 00:45:09 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Scott Post <[email-masked]> writes:

>unnecessary jigs and fixtures.

When they built a jig to hold a jigsaw upside down I felt they hit a new low, but this month they spent ~$150 + labor to build a drill press sander which, for a few more bucks, you could by a dedicated spindle sander. But then maybe creativity in woodworking articles has reached the same point it has in music.

Doug Sherwin