ShopNotes vs Woodsmith?

ErcAnRua
Firstly welcome to Lumberjocks
and i’m a shopnotes man myself the describtions are more understandable and easyer to follow well for me anyway…...

-- cut it saw it scrap it

I take both and shop notes seams to be more involved with jigs and techniques and woodsmith is focused on projects. I like them both.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Welcome to Lumberjocks. You’ll love it here.

I subscribe to both magazines. Woodsmith tends to have furniture projects, boxes, clocks, things for the house, etc! Shopnotes is all about building things for your shop. Jigs, storage, workbenches, tool stands, etc! The drawings and instructions in both magazines are excellent and easy to follow. I enjoy both magazines very much and have built projects from each one.

-- Darell, Norman, Ok.

I do both shopnotes deals with the shop and woodsmith other stuff. I like them because there is no ads

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

Yup me too, both…

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

I buy both but I don’t subcribe to either, if I see a copy on the shelf in the store I think would be a good read with a few good projects in it, ill pick it up.

-- A hammer dangling from a wall will bang and sound like work when the wind blows the right way.

I get one and a friend gets the other. We share. I take the shopnotes.
BTW, welcome

-- Gary, DeKalb Texas

Those are my 2 favorites as well.

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

Both for me too.
(And Wood Working Magazine, and Popular Woodworking..and American Woodworker & Woodworkers Journal…...)

OK, it’s an addiction, but I’m working on it…..

You know there is a problem when you see three of the same sharpening articles at once…..

-- Eric

ErcAnRua,

Establish what is important to you and go from there.

ShopNotes is what the name implies…shop, sawdust, hard work, bare wood, jigs, fixtures, clean-up, organize, sweat, mess, real world.

Woodsmith is everything else…exquisite teatables, yet another cutting board, and more.

I do both too. Just when I think one or the other is not needed they come out with a great project in that one!

-- St. Louis - just a cut away from finishing!

Both.

-- JJ...... I guess you could say I'm a 54 year old "juniorjock". — Make things with wood.

Thanks to all of you who answered the question about what’s the difference between the two—why would I choose one over the other, if it had to only be one!

To those who answer that they buy both, it’s an interesting data point, but isn’t really to my point…

And thanks to all of you who welcomed me via my profile—I do feel welcome! This is the most response I’ve ever received on a board… Most impressive.

Eric

Yeah I go both ways too, wait that didn’t come out right.

-- DocK, WV

Don’t worry Dock, we get it.

-- JJ...... I guess you could say I'm a 54 year old "juniorjock". — Make things with wood.

Ditto what a1Jim said they’re both great publications! Welcome to LJs, enjoy.

-- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines! Mike D.

Yep, I get BOTH too…

One is for the Shop… other is more for Projects…

I love them both!

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"

BOTH

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

I subscribe to both, maybe we should start “Wood Workers Anonymous”, my name is Smitty and I am a woodworker, I have not sawn any wood for 2.5 hours, I am going into the shop now and saw some wood.lol

-- Smitty!!!

Both. No ads = great value IMHO.

-- You're a unique and special person, just like everyone else.

Each magazine brings its own personality and ideas. In each magazine you will find an idea that you won’t find anywhere else. A $5 or $6 investment is worthed, for each issue from each magazine. Unless you attend woodworking classes all year round, where would you learn about woodworking? On LJ of course, but… The more you see the more your learn.

ShopNotes = shop tools, shop tips, shop jigs, shop furniture
Woodsmith = some shop jigs, shop tips, and house furniture.

Finally, if you don’t spend your money on magazines that will teach you something, you will spend it somewhere else anyway.

Best, and Welcome to LJ.

Serge

http://www.atelierdubricoleur.spaces.live.com

-- Learn from yesterday, work today and enjoy success tomorrow.

I like both.
They a e a great asset and a treasure for woodworkers much like Norm and the New YANKEEE WORKSHOPS.

Some things are just better than others.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

I’ve been a subscriber to Shopnotes since it’s conception. And Woodsmith for years before that. Love them both.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps