I just renewed my subscription to Fine Woodworking, and I tried to start a new subscription for American Woodworker, and I found out that American Woodworker is now in cahoots with Popular Woodworking! Call me lame! I did not know this!

I love Popular Woodworking, so it's a win win, but I also loved American Woodworker! Anyway, I started a new subscription for Popular Woodworker as well.

Thanks for the heads up!

 

Similar thing happened with Woodsmith and Shop Notes. The publisher of both (August Publishing) decided to stop publishing Shop Notes- which I just renewed. They were kind enough to extend my subscription to Woodsmith.

Thanks for the heads up!

 

Similar thing happened with Woodsmith and Shop Notes. The publisher of both (August Publishing) decided to stop publishing Shop Notes- which I just renewed. They were kind enough to extend my subscription to Woodsmith.

Woodsmith is another I need to re-up on Lew! Had em years ago but I need to get em again, love them too.

I'm not a fan of Popular Woodworking.  In fact, if they gave me a subscription I'd give it back.  I had a year's subscription and canceled after 6 months.  One issue had a plan for a table that had 23 errors in the plan. 

American Woodworker was never my favorite, but I did subscribe off/on over the years. I was suprised to see they went under. I think PWW just absorbed the leftovers (subscriber's list, etc.) Then not long after that PWW let some of their better writers go (Bob Lang, Chuck Bender, and another one who's name escapes me at the moment). I still have a couple of years on my PWW so I may let it ride and see what happens. Woodsmith really changed once Shop Notes was shut down. Woodsmith picked up some of the content, and they claim they've added 16 pages to each issue. The first one (post shut down, issue 217 I think) seems to support that, it's quite a bit thicker.

I had a subscription to American Woodworker and they change the remainder to Popular Woodworking to finish the subscription time. Shop Notes and Woodsmith did the same thing to my understanding. I feel bad for the folks that had a subscription to Creative Woodworks and Crafts. The publisher All American Craft went belly up. So many of the magazines are combing subscriptions or closing up shop.