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ixny magazine can report the news ...We delight in telling you about your future." From Our Shop to Yours...xperts are quick to point out that readers "just don't care" about things like a magazine's anniversary. Well, I'm not ready to ask all of you to observe a moment of silence, but I do think there's something to be said for making it to our 30th anniversary. Think about it this way: If you bought your house 30 years ago, you'd be making your last payment later this year. Does that seem a little more like "forever?" So how, exactly, do we celebrate? Free tools? (See below.) A big cake for 300,000? (A little tricky and probably kind of dry by the time we got slices to subscribers in all 50 states and another 72 countries — no kiddin' — around the world.) How about we just take this anniversary as an opportunity to express our heartfelt thanks for your patronage over the years. When you begin adding up the turnovers, it becomes clear that we've served way more than a million woodworkers over these three decades. In homes around the world, there are Woodworker's Journal projects galore, most of which were first dreamed up in our shop and later appeared as drawings, photos and text in our magazine. These projects have been handed down, gifted, inherited and passed along. They've been repaired, reglued, refmished and remade. Judging from the letters we get, many more of you take our project ideas to your shops, use them for inspiration and come out a week or three later with a unique project of your own making and imagination. All of this, I must say, is a point of immeasurable pride and satisfaction. Any magazine can report the news ... tell you all about what has already happened. We delight in telling you about your future. You're going to go down to your shop soon ... You're going to be ordering some wood and some hardware and supplies ... and you're going to soon be absorbed fully in a craft with a rich and wonderful history. And when you come out, someone in your life, either now, or maybe even 30 years from now, is going to be very, very happy with what you created. And to think it all started out as ink and paper, right here in the Woodworker's Journal offices. Just like it has been for 30 years. Can you imagine a better job than this? FREE TOOLS! When I asked editor Rob Johnstone about celebrating our anniversary, he got right to your sweet spot. "Let's give away some tools," he said. "Woodworkers love free tools." Being an editor-in-chief of hifalutin values and immeasurable ethical clarity, I immediately saw this as an opportunity to involve our extended family of advertisers. So that's what we did, and you can find all the sweet details in our contest announcement or by visiting www.woodworkersjournal.com/30-30. SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2006 Volume 30, Number 5 LARRY N. STOIAKEN Editor in Chief ROB JOHNSTONE Editor JOANNA WERCH TAKES Senior Editor CHRIS MARSHALL Field Editor LIZSELA Copy Editor ELIZABETH STOIAKEN Editorial Assistant JEFF J ACOBSON Senior Art Director JOE FAHEY Associate Art Director ANN ROCKLER JACKSON Publisher SARAH M. GREER Advertising Director MEG CLARK Circulation Director KELLY ROSAAEN Circulation Coordinator ALYSSA TAUER Advertising Assistant Editorial Advisors NORTON ROCKLER JOHN KELLIHER Contributing Editors MICHAEL DRESDNER RICK WHITE MIKE McGLYNN ADVERTISING SALES J.F. Van Gilder Company P.O. BOX 802405, Dallas Texas 75380 DAVID BECKLER JADE SYNHORST TERRI MATHIS JIM VAN GILDER Phone: (972) 392-1892 Fax: (972) 392-1893 ft 12 Audit Bureau of Circulations Member SUBSCRIPTION INQUIRIES (800) 765-4119 or www.woodworkersjournal.com. Write Woodworker's Journal, P.O. Box 56583, Boulder, CO 80322-6583. E-mail: woodworkersjournal@neodata.com. Include mailing label for renewals and address changes. For gift subscriptions, include both your name and address and your gift recipient's. BACK ISSUES & REPRINTS Woodworker's Journal or Today's Woodworker Call: (800)610-0883 www. woodworkersjournal. com Woodworker's Journal (ISSN: 0199-1892), is published in February, April, June, August, October and December by Rockier Press Inc., 4365 Willow Dr., Medina, MN 55340. Periodical postage paid at Medina, Minnesota and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send all address changes to Woodworker's Journal, P.O. Box 56583, Boulder, CO 80322-6583. Subscription Rates: One-year, $19.95 (U.S.); $25.95 U.S. funds (Canada and other countries). Single copy price, $5.99 (U.S.); $7.99 (Canada/other countries). Reproduction without permission prohibited. Publications Mail Agreement Number 0861065. Canadian Publication Agreement #40009401. Printed in the USA. WEB SITE: www.woodworkersjournal.com ©2006 Rockier Press Inc. Printed in USA. |
