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WQW! Our 25th Year

It's our 25th anniversary! Woodworker's Journal began bringing you woodworking projects, toots and techniques in early 1977. and we've been hard at it ever since. Thai's unusual in today's magazine climate, where, according to one of the top authorities in the field, only one in 10 new magazines survives long enough to see ils 10th anniversary.

Yet here we are, 25 years after our first 16-page newsprint issue. You've seen changes over the past quarter century: glossy pages, new departments and the addition of a web site, to name a few. The most important quality, however, remains the same: a commitment to bringing you great projects and telling you about the best tools, tips, and techniques to help you make them.

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As is the custom here, our first issue of I he new year features a couple of great projects for your shop: John English's router case and table (page 50) and Jeff Jacobson's shop-built disc sander (page 38). But before you slart either of these projects, I'd like to strongly recommend I hat you spend some time with Ian Kirby's "Marking Up Lumber" article (see page 44). 1 can't imagine how many mistakes I might have avoided in my own woodworking if I'd learned some of these basic lessons earlier in life.

And you can put those lessons into practice when you tackle Rick White's ash and walnut bed, featured on page 28. Rick did a fine job wilh this project while teaching some interesting techniques along the way (something we strive to do in all our project articles).

Our 25th anniversary also seemed the appropriate lime to launch a new department — one thai examines tools after they've seen some hard use in the shop. Shop Journal (see page 70) answers the question. "How will this tool stand up over time?" W hen a tool passes muster, well award the manufacturer with a special 'Tools that Kndure" plaque, recognizing solid quality that performs well in day-to-day use.

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Well be celebrating our silver anniversary in other ways throughout the year — although in some ways, it feels like we already had the celebratory dinner. At the recent Minnesota's Magazine and Publisher's Association's awards ceremony. Woodworker's Journal received ail award for Overall Excellence, while our eZine was a winner in the "Best Internet Site" category. One of our frequent contributors, Charles Self, also took top honors last year from the National Association of Home and Workshop Writers for his review of jig saws in last April's issue. Such awards, of course, are only the byproduct of our main focus at Woodworker's Journal: producing your favorite magazine, a calling we've been happy to fulfill for 25 years.

CORRECTIONS: We got a few phone numbers and details wrong in our Resource Digest last time. Here are the fixes:

Grizzly Imports has changed its name to Grizzly Industrial

Leigh Industries Ltd. offers a 'vacuum attachment", not a vacuum adjustment, "to lei you rout variable spaced through dovetails "

Meisel Hardware 's correct phone

number is 800-441 -9870

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2001

Volume 25, Number 1

LARRY N. STOIAKEN Editor in Chief JOHN KEIJ.IHER Art Director ROK JOHNSTONE Editor JEFFJACOBSON Associate Art Director JOANNA WERCH TAKES Associate Editor BOB FTLJPCZ^K Online Editor STEVE HINDEKAKER Photographer

KRIS KAISER Graphic Designer ANN ROCKLER JACKSON Publisher

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