procainestart
procainestart Dork
12/24/09 4:14 p.m.

My brother-in-law wants a subscription to a home machinist magazine. I found this one: http://www.homeshopmachinist.net/home?noredirect=true

Anybody get it? How do you like it? Are there others I should consider?

Thx...

ignorant
ignorant SuperDork
12/24/09 4:22 p.m.

it is a good magazine. I've read it many times but never subscribed. The articles are very in depth and the projects are quite good.

erohslc
erohslc Reader
12/24/09 5:39 p.m.

Used see them on the racks at the big box booksellers, but not lately. There were actually two magazines, I forget the second one, I'd always buy both wehn I saw them. Sad to say, a dwindling reader base. Most schools have no shop classes at all, much less with lathes and milling machines. The folks with those skills and interests are passing on. Manually operated machines are for die-hard specialists and hobbyists nowdays.

Carter

aeronca65t
aeronca65t HalfDork
12/25/09 7:17 a.m.

I've subscribed to it. It's fun but they spread the projects out over several months to keep you coming back.....I find that annoying.

The other similar mag is ~Livesteam~

I have ~My Own Webpage~ with steam plans.

Trans_Maro
Trans_Maro HalfDork
12/25/09 12:48 p.m.

I've got a lathe and a mill in my shop.

I got the free trial of HSM but wasn't overly impressed.

The projects seem like highschool shop classs all over again.

Shawn

digdug18
digdug18 Reader
12/26/09 9:28 p.m.

The older issues you can occasionally pick up on ebay or CL, they tend to have more interesting articles, well for me anyhow. Some past issues have included gunsmithing as a topic as well, which is always fun.

Andrew

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