Popular Woodworking (1-year)
POPULAR WOODWORKING has everything woodworkers need to develop their skills. Woodworking essentials from A to Z are covered. Topics include routers, lathes, joinery, table saw use, and more. Every issue includes inspiring projects that build your skills and make your shop time more rewarding. Articles about technique and finishing methods are written by professional woodworking experts. Tool reviews are based on shop tests that arm you with the knowledge you need to make smart buying decisions.
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Working Stiffs
The workplace is a dangerous place. The unscrupulous are primed and ready to take advantage of the innocent and naïve. A slight indiscretion can cost the employee everything. A new position can turn a person into someone they are not. Those at the top can be toppled and those at the bottom can be crushed.
Until now, Vincent’s father has kept one side of the business a secret from his son. Vincent is about to learn the family business. On the most important day of his career, Sam’s world will unravel when he helps a woman in distress. Todd has failed in every job he’s undertaken, but that changes when he backs into a drug dealer’s car. Now he’s in hock with organized crime and can only get himself out from under if he works for them to pay off his debt. Kenneth Casper is ailing and so is his business empire. His shareholders circle like vultures. Casper pins all his hopes on a Peruvian shaman with a miracle cure.
Working Stiffs…Some jobs are worth dying for.
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What kind of machine do people use to make wood signs and the other wood crafts??
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Review by Bob Key for Popular Woodworking (1-year)
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This magazine surprises me. It looks like just another mass media pulp magazine, but it’s really solid on the inside. These guys actually go to the shop and do woodworking. They are enthusiastic, thorough, honest, and funny. The articles seem to aim toward the moderately experienced amateur, but there’s plenty of stuff for beginners. And the price can’t be beat. This and Fine Woodworking are my favorites – put them together and you have everything you need.
Review by R. Miller for Popular Woodworking (1-year)
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While I appreciate tool reviews and tips and techniques for woodworking, what I like most in a woodworking magazine are projects which I find interesting and attractive. I have found Popular Woodworking to be the woodworking magazine that meets my expectations in this area.Yes, there are tool reviews, which are particularly useful when considering the purchase of a new tool (with prices these days, we need all the help we can get) and there are plenty tips and techniques.But I do enjoy the projects the most. Don’t get me wrong, not every issue has a project I want to tackle (thank goodness, or I wouldn’t get anything else done), but I will usually find something that I want to make or that illustrates a method of work which will help me with other woodworking projects. Also, the projects are not just limited to pieces of “fine” furniture, they also include things like functional outdoor woodworking and practical furniture.This is one of only two woodworking magazines to which I regularly subscribe. If you like woodworking projects, you may like this magazine.
Review by Stephen for Popular Woodworking (1-year)
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This magazine does well for the regular joe woodworker geared to a garage shop or small separate shop (less towards a pro or highend furniture maker, but plenty of tutorials to help get you there.)…nice to have tips and tricks that i would actually use, and a decent companion website.four stars only because they need to do more of what they do best and drop the tool issue and replace with a regular issue.as with all wwing mags it is only 6-7 issues per year.
Review by Scott Pointon for Popular Woodworking (1-year)
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I have to admit I enjoy reading about woodworking almost as much as doing it – just remember I did say “almost”!
This magazine is among my top five favorite magazines on the topic and I have to say that I enjoy it greatly. The articles are well written and the photography is very good, which when combined equates to my clear understanding of their project plans, etc. This is of course crucial for any how-to magazine and there are few disappointments here. I find that there is almost always one project in every issue that I make plans to build “someday”. Though I don’t get to all of them, it is nice to have so many projects to choose from!
I also really appreciate the tool reviews. Between Popular Woodworking and my other four favorites (Fine Woodworking, Wood, American Woodworker, and Workbench) nearly every type of woodworking tool is reviewed at least once every 18 months.
Overall, this is a solid magazine with good content and a clear purpose and I feel it is well worth the money.
Review by Marc Ruby™ for Popular Woodworking (1-year)
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It’s very easy to write off Popular Woodworking without even reading it. One tends to assume that it is going to be the Readers Digest of woodworking. One imagines countless overly simplified articles on how to build bookcases or select the right shop vacuum. Actually, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Admittedly, Popular Woodworking is not a high-end magazine. It is for the moderately funded woodworker who wants to get the best out of his or her tools without a huge outlay. It’s also for folks who like a wide coverage of the woodworking field. Plans, tools, jigs, wood, techniques, and workshops.
In going through a recent issue repeatedly, I kept finding little articles that I have missed on earlier readings. This is a compliment to the editors in that they try to answer many needs. On the other hand, it indicates that magazine layout and structure is a bit haphazard and cramped. You just have to keep perusing it until everything sinks in. Take the time to do so and I think you will agree the Popular Woodworking is worthwhile reading.
Review by Nickolas Cook for Working Stiffs
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WORKING STIFFS by Simon Wood
Review by Nickolas Cook
Crime anthologies have enjoyed a great tradition in American literature. For a genre fiction, they get a heck of a lot less grief from publishing than horror or science fiction, and don’t suffer from the ghetto slap from critics. Some of crime literature’s best anthologies were the old Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery. Well, Simon Wood has single handedly channeled the ghosts of that fine old series of books with his newest collection, WORKING STIFFS.
The stories are quick and mean, edited down to the bone, like the best noir fiction. His characters are believable, work-a-day (pun definitely intended) types who find themselves facing shifts in their simple lives as violence intrudes. The prose is tight, clean, and gives that sense of balance that only damn good writing can provide. Wood’s humor comes through in the most peculiar ways, in dialogue and descriptive passages akin to the Mathesons, Blochs, or Hunters of old. His style will seem effortless to the reader and turn every writer green with envy. Wood’s years of writing tirelessly for the short story markets can be seen in this new collection.
Each of the stories has to do with the work we do- the thing that takes up a significant portion of each of our lives. But Wood examines the idea of a job as something more than punching the clock for our daily bread. There are jobs we love and jobs we hate; jobs we never see as work, and those that grind chunks of our souls away each day. He knows this and digs under the surface of his characters to expose their worn souls and lost dreams.
“Old Flames Burn the Brightest” is something MacDonald would have loved. Femme fateles can never be trusted, can they?
“My Father’s Secret” could easily have been an episode of “The Sopranos”, it’s that good.
“A Break in the Old Routine” had me all the way to the end slap in the face.
“Parental Control” examines the desperation of the parenting gig in modern society, and just how far a father is willing to go to keep his son alive and safe. Some people have the taste for violence and learn its power.
“The Real Deal” has a nice twist ending, even if you can see it coming from a few miles away.
“Officer Down” is a peculiar revenge story that leaves the reader unsure how to feel about the protagonist; but this is yet another example of Wood’s brilliant craftsmanship.
While the whole collection is great reading, the novella, “Fall Guy”, is its best offering. It all starts innocuously enough with a minor fender bender misdeed, but quickly spirals out of control for the intrepid protagonist. Todd just can’t seem to stay out of trouble, and the harder he tries to wriggle out of his new life of crime the worse it gets. Wood writes this tale with a sense of fun and humor, but don’t let that fool you into thinking the danger isn’t real. It’s an examination, as the best crime fiction usually is, of the criminal mind. Todd has no direction or aptitude for the straight life, and only finds satisfaction and vigor in being a criminal. Before long he’s as comfortable with his new role as a seasoned pro. The supporting characters he meets along the way are as quirky as those found in a Tarantino film. While Wood leaves plenty of ambiguity about a life of crime compared to a life of dead end jobs and weekly paychecks that don’t stretch nearly far enough, he helps Todd seek redemption by tale’s end. The denouement is very satisfying meat upon which to chew.
For a novice reader of Wood’s work, this is an excellent place to start.
–Nickolas Cook
Review by Debbi Mack for Working Stiffs
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WORKING STIFFS is a riveting collection of six short stories (and one novella) about workplace dangers. Not chemical spills or falling beams, but the dangers of greedy and unscrupulous people looking to gain advantage over their co-workers (or even their bosses).
The protagonists range from people like the business owner taking drastic steps to hold onto his company in “The Real Deal” to the beat cop whose reputation is compromised when a street punk shoots him with his own weapon in “Officer Down” to average Joes placed in circumstances in which events spin out of control, such as the adman in the story “A Break in the Old Routine”.
In the novella, called “The Fall Guy,” there’s a never a dull moment as protagonist-on-the-run Todd Collins is driven from one dire situation to the next while seeking revenge on a man who tried to set him up.
Wood is a master of dry humor and taut prose that builds suspense and tension to the breaking point. Plus he ends his stories with twists you’ll never see coming. If you love thrillers, this anthology will more than satisfy.
Review by J.T. Cummins for Working Stiffs
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On average each of us spends 200 of 365 days a year earning an income. That leaves 165 days a year to what most of us would actually consider living. In the Anthony Award winning anthology Working Stiffs, talented author Simon Wood examines the darker side of those 200 days in a collection where nefarious employees and murderous entrepreneurs make their living, well, making a killing. From Old Flames Burn The Brightest where a bestselling crime author takes researching his novels a bit too seriously, to the morally challenged protagonist of the novella length The Fall Guy who gets more than he bargained for after a fender bender with a murderous gangster, Wood shines a harsh revealing light not only on our tyrannical bosses and backstabbing co-workers, but also ourselves and our own deep, dark work-a-day secrets.
Review by A. Parker for Working Stiffs
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… And you think YOUR worklife is the stuff of nightmares … Simon Wood’s WORKING STIFFS puts all that in perspective. I loved this collection of stories, and I’m not, in general, a fan of short stories. But Simon’s a great writer: Read one short from this collection, and you’ll just have to read another (rather like a box of chocolates… you can’t stop after just one).
Review by Melissa Ysais for Working Stiffs
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Working Stiffs by Simon Wood
Review by Melissa Ysais
A collection of short stories crafted to take you places you never thought you’d willingly go!
This book gives readers a full-bodied and savory taste for what’s in-store; a dare…enticing you to begin reading other delectable full-length novels and other works penned by Simon Wood!