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   RalphBarker | Aug 12, 2012 06:52pm | #1

   searching, searching . . .

   Not efficiently. At least not that I've found. You can search for printed article topics on the main page (not here on Knots), but success is elusive. There used to be a listing of issues and the articles in each, but that seems to have disappeared.

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   roc | Aug 12, 2012 10:49pm | #2

   This is the closest thing See photo

   Also there are a few indexes put on the internet for FWW by other people if you google it.  They get taken down often also.

   
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   Mcfarmer | Aug 13, 2012 02:00pm | #3

   Old issues

   A little off topic, but am I the only one that orders years I am missing instead of getting a subscription ? My work place subscribed from issue number one and we would go a year or so now and then without a subscription to cut costs or whatever. Since the department closed when I retired I took the issues with me. The recent years are so much less valuable to me so I have just been ordering skipped years, cheaper than a subscription I think.

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   RalphBarker | Aug 14, 2012 09:36am | #4

   subscriptions

   A subscription is the least expensive way to get entire years of issues, I think. But, if you only want one or two issues out of the year, back-issue ordering might make sense.

   The nature of the content of FWW, and the economics behind the operation of the magazine is a more complex topic, I'd say.

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   Ed_Pirnik | Aug 14, 2012 03:45pm | #5

   Fine Woodworking magazine index

   Hi Dan,

   Check out the online magazine index It lists issue numbers, dates, pages, etc:

   Best,

   -Ed

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   VAM | Aug 15, 2012 03:14pm | #6

   Online but awkward

   This is a searchable but not a readable index like the printed ones used to be.  You can go to a letter such as "B" to see what comes up alphabetically, but you can't see more than 100 entries at a time. 

   There is also a keyword search but it has no flexibility.  If you search for "sharpen chisel" you get one hit (in 228 issues - really?).  If you search on "sharpening chisel" you get sixteen hits but not the one from the earlier search.  Search on "chisel sharpen" and you get two hits - one in is in the prior list of sixteen and one is not.  And so forth...

   I just index issues as I receive them in a simple Excel spreadsheet. 

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   Kiwi_Dominic | Sep 27, 2012 02:33am | #7

   That's not a useable index

   Hi Ed, I've been searching for this "free cumulative searchable index online" that made the annual index redundant (Asa Cristiana Editorial Feb 2007) for ages, including emails that didn't get a reply, and when I saw your post here thought my prayers were answered and was about to open the champagne........     But when you try it, its a dog.

   What I was hoping for was a cumulative index as comprehensive as the old blue pages. You'd think that, as they would have been in an electronic format, it would be easy aye.

   Hey I have 228 magazines to search now!  Two nights ago I spent 3 hours in the library looking for an article I remembered, without luck.  It was a very good article about butcherblock construction chopping boards and was (I thought) in a mag in the last couple of years, Ok may be earlier, the years fly by. 

   I tried the keyword search but no results found for either butcherblock or chopping board.  Incredulous!!

   The list of topics clearly has to be the exact starting letter of the article header.  Now would that have been;  Butcherblock construction? Construction of a butcherblock? Make a butcherblock? Glue up a chopping board?    ...See my point??  Each tried by the way without success.

   I'm a fulltime very busy worker (not in the woodworking industry) with a charge out rate that would have paid for someone to make this stuff for me just with the time I have wasted looking for the article!!!!  

   I want to keep my subscription going to this fine magazine for many more years, but how about a service to readers so they can find something??

   Dominic Stewart  > New Zealand