MontanaShill

As an avid reader of your magazine and a working artist/high school art teacher (in my time off from teaching I have a finish carpentry business and I make mixed media wood/steel wall sculpture to show) I would like to weigh in on Tom Loesers frustrations with FWW. I too have used FWW as a trusted resource in my woodworking for both practical furniture making and for wood joinery techniques to include in my art making. I have never let FWW limit the techniques/joinery used on my work - I have instead used the magazine as and extra resource to help influence or enhance my work. Similar to a woodworker who has a variety of jigs they use in the shop - I use FWW as an extra jig/resource - nothing more nothing less. In recent years I did find a magazine that delved into both worlds (artmaking/utilitarian woodworking) quite nicely -the magazine was called Woodwork - they recently ran their last issue this last January and it brought my subsription to a hault. I guess that answers the question to what might happen if a magazine(a business) attempts to tap into both worlds. I am hopeful that another magazine similar to Woodwork may resurface - but in the mean time I will continue to enjoy FWW as a trusted jig in my studio/shop.