While there are many woodworking sites on the Internet, few offer a free place for amateur and professional woodworkers to meet, chat, blog and showcase their projects. Until now that is! LumberJocks is an online community for woodworking enthusiasts that does all that and more!

The members, known as ‘LumberJocks’, includes both men and women of all ages and they have woodworking skills of all levels. What they have in common is that they love the smell of sawdust, they can’t wait to check out the latest power tools and they have the desire to connect with other woodworkers.

At the time of writing there were 4,291 woodworkers making 201,332 comments on 7,249 projects, 4,385 blogs, 319 reviews and 3,159 forum topics – and these numbers are growing very quickly.

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I recently received an email from Marc Spagnuolo welcoming Woodworker’s Guide to The Wood Whisperer Network!

The Wood Whisperer Network is a collection of blogs related to woodworking that offer lessons and tips learned through personal experience. It include blogs from both amateurs and professionals as well as audio and video blogs.

The Wood Whisperer Network is the creation of the Wood Whisperer himself, Marc Spagnuolo. Marc is a professional woodworker, pod caster video producer and a contributing editor to Fine Woodworking and is based out of Phoenix, Arizona.

Marc also operates The Wood Whisperer and the Wood Talk Online websites.

The Wood Whisperer website is “the online video show that offers a refreshing look at an age old craft”. Using online video Marc shows us step by step instruction on various projects that he is working on as well as woodworking related road trips. The website also includes a blog, product reviews, woodworking hints and more.

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After testing a few projects in recent issues of their magazine that were geared toward woodworkers that do not have a lot of tools, the folks over at Wood Magazine officially launched a new, supporting website for these projects. Going under the banner, Basic-Build, both the website and some future articles will focus on projects that are well designed but require few tools and less skill.

They have created three rules for the Basic-Built projects:

Rule #1: No expensive tools required. No tool in the suggested “Basic-Built Toolbag” costs more than $200, and most cost far less.

Rule #2: You can buy everything at a home center. This ensures that wood, hardware, finishes, and other supplies are affordable and easy to find.

Rule #3: No complicated joinery. Expect screws, butt joints, and half-laps: whatever is simple yet plenty strong without sacrificing style.
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