Popular Woodworking Editors' Blog

This new, easy-to-navigate and searchable CD gives you instant access to all seven 2003 issues of Popular Woodworking magazine -- plus it includes a slick way to search all of the issues by keyword. Just type what you're looking for and your computer will fetch the article for you, open it to the right page and highlight your search term.

In 2003, we spent a lot of energy investigating hand tools, including smoothing planes and the differences between Western saws and Japanese saws. We also published many plans of timeless pieces, including several important Arts & Crafts reproductions from Limbert and Gustav Stickley. Also in 2003, we published plans for several critical Shaker pieces, including a beautiful trestle table, a two-door chimney cupboard and John Wilson's landmark piece on building Shaker Oval Boxes

So if you like Popular Woodworking now but you didn't subscribe in 2003, we think you'll like this new CD. Or if you did subscribe, you might want to have all the issues on your laptop so you can search them easily -- it sure beats riffling through paper copies.

On this CD, we've put all seven issues we published in 2003 in pdf format. All of the advertisements have been removed. It's just more than 400 pages of pure woodworking content -- and completely text-searchable -- for $19.96.

The CD is in stock now and ready for immediate shipping. The CD works with both PCs and Macintosh computers running Adobe Reader 6.0 or later (Reader is a free program). Visit the 2003 CD page in the Popular Woodworking store, and simply click "Add to Cart" to order your copy of this exclusive disk now, or call 800-258-0929 and mention item #PW2003.