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detrading on Sun, 03/20/2011 - 17:58

New To Woodworking

Hey all

I purchased this the other day and i found it so cool i thought i would share it. Its the No.1 woodworking site for woodworkers it has 16000 designs and plans with a super easy step by step instructions for all projects and the cost is so cheap, its great for a gift . Your sure to find a project ready and waiting for you, Anyway this is where i found it: www.woodshopprojectsdiy.com

i found it so cool (post #165841, reply #1 of 10)

by swenson in reply to detrading [original] on Sun, 03/20/2011 - 20:39

Well I found it so cool that you have been a member for 2 hours and forty minutes and posted this 2 hours and thirty minutes ago.. It is soooo cool that you are sooo eager, soo eager to believe that we don't know spam when we see it. Also I find it soooo kooool that you checked out all 16000 designs and plans and found they all had super easy step by step instructions for all projects. That is sooo neat that you went to all that trouble.

[I reply just in case the guy (post #165841, reply #2 of 10)

by cblouin in reply to detrading [original] on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 04:22

[I reply just in case the guy who posted this ever comes back.]

Your product is all over the place, often linked in a deceptive manner. It isn't because the social media makes it easy to create free publicitiy, that it means that woodworkers aren't savvy enought to smell dishonesty when they see this.

Had you been straighforward, and paid some publicity space with Taunton like everybody else, I may have bothered checking your site.

Hope you marked the original (post #165841, reply #3 of 10)

by DonStephan in reply to cblouin [original] on Sat, 04/02/2011 - 15:18

Hope you marked the original posting as Inappropriate.

is it worth buying this product (post #165841, reply #4 of 10)

by PierreM in reply to detrading [original] on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 19:20

Hello

Im am sort of a newbie in the woodworking and would like to know if its worth buying this product?

Thanks

I wouldn't. If I remember he (post #165841, reply #5 of 10)

by swenson in reply to PierreM [original] on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 22:15

I wouldn't. If I remember he posted on each forum in Knots with the same Wow-look-what-I-just-found tone just a few hours after joining. Just spam and not allowed on FWW. He's just selling his product under the guise of being a fellow Knots member.

Thanks (post #165841, reply #6 of 10)

by PierreM in reply to swenson [original] on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 05:17

Thanks for the info i just dont want to buy crap. Is there somewhere i can get some good plans of anything? Because i dont know in wich direction of woodworking i want to go.

Thanks

Books? (post #165841, reply #7 of 10)

by DonStephan in reply to PierreM [original] on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 14:42

The first question is whether you wish to explore "modern" assembly with dominos/biscuits/pocket screws or "traditional" joinery with mortise-and-tenon and dovetail joinery. I'm not trying to express an opinion in either direction.

The New Yankee Workshop project books include some nice looking pieces, but the format of the show was to make projects that could be completed in a 30 minute show so there was more use of dominos and similar. Taunton/Fine Woodworking project books probably have nice looking projects with both ends of the spectrum, and projects with a mix. The Society of American Period Furniture Makers will focus on measured drawings to reproduce "classic" Early American pieces so there will be no use of dominos and biscuits.

There is more of a skills development period for traditional joinery than there is with dominos and such, and each requires what can be a not insignificant investment in tools and equipment not especially transferrable to the other.

Most public libraries have extensive collections of how-to furniture making books. Woodworking stores and web sites also have extensive libraries of books and plans for sale. For reference you might try to rent or find on cable/satellite back episodes of New Yankee Workshop to see examples of that approach so you have some background and reference.

Hope this helps.

Right here on FWW under (post #165841, reply #8 of 10)

by swenson in reply to PierreM [original] on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 03:32

Right here on FWW under "Plans and Projects" is one place to find plans. One way to find which direction you want to go is by starting out building a basic shop workbench. Back issues of August Home Publishing's ShopNotes have a wealth of stuff to build for your shop. Since you're not building fine furniture or using expensive wood the pressure is off and you can enjoy making basic things for your new shop that can be used no matter what direction you choose to go later on. Before long you will find that if you can make something useful for the shop, with a little more care and better wood you can make something for your living room. Joining a woodworkers guild can be another way to see which way you want to go but there doesn't have to be only one way. A lot of folks start down the power tool route and then go down the hand tool road and then combine the two only to find that turning on a lathe looks like fun and before you know it you hit retirement age and have a house full of homemade furniture and cradles to be built for grandchildren and then you die... no wait... this is getting out of hand, but you see what I'm saying...

Thanks again (post #165841, reply #9 of 10)

by PierreM in reply to swenson [original] on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 16:19

When i decided to start woodworking it was to make furniture. I bought a bunch of tools like a router and table, 13" planer, table saw and compresor and other stuff. Then i was missing some money so decided to make some playhouse to make some money to buy more tools. My day job is at a window manufacturing plant in the planer mill so wood is not a problem. When i said i dont know what direction i like framing and would like to try furniture making also.

Online Subscription (post #165841, reply #10 of 10)

by Jigs-n-fixtures in reply to PierreM [original] on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 15:44

I'd recommend buying the online subscription to Finewoodworking. I think it's $34.95.

That gives you online access in pdf format to the entire article history of the magazine.

Just pick an article in the latest issue that ineterests you and search for more articles on the topic.

It is a fast way to peruse a lot of information on most topics in woodworking.