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Thanks for all the great comments! Congratulations to tsharp9164, the winner of this book giveaway. Stay tuned for more exciting book giveaways and if you’re interested in a copy of “The Practical Workshop,” it is currently available at ShopWoodworking.com.
Shop set up is always a popular topic of discussion among woodworkers. We have a book coming out in few weeks that covers exactly that. “The Practical Workshop” is a compilation of some of Popular Woodworking Magazine’s best articles on setting up a sensible shop with an efficient workflow.
Whether you have a fully equipped shop or you make do with a tiny corner of the basement or garage, this book offers ideas for upgrading, reorganizing, streamlining or optimizing your workspace. Using the workbench as a focal point, the book covers shop workflow, strategies for machine and fixture placement and includes plans for building shop furniture.
And I have one advance copy to give away! Simply post a comment and I’ll choose a lucky winner at random (winner will be announced on Monday 4/17). Good luck!
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Allons-y!
Sounds awesome.
Sure. Count me in.
thanks
A good book to have. Would love one.
Is it too late?
Maybe too late, but count me in!
Hope I’m not too late!
If not too late, throwing my name in the hat.
This looks like a useful book. I’d like to add it to my library.
I’m in the midst of re-organizing the basement shop. This book would be great for me right now.
Hope I’m not too late!
Would love to have this book. Christopher Schwarz always has good clear advice!!
Please enter me for the book. Thanks.
sign me up! thank you
Please enter me in the drawing.
I’m in. Hope its not to late
Count me in on the drawing, please!
Put me down for a copy. I can’t wait to see what’s inside!
I would really like to win this book for my wife!! Then, maybe, she will understand.
This would fit quite well in my library.
Thanks for the opportunity to participate!
Right now I have a pile of tools and a pile of wood (there’s also a pile of footwear, but that’s unrelated). Need help!
I’d love a copy of this book. With a 1 car shop practical is a requirement.
My new shop has a bench and one tool rack. Help setting it up would be great!
My basement is desperadly longing for a shop-upgrade. So I´d really love to have a copy!
Curses! Yet another book to buy!
When will you stop writing to give my checking account a rest?
Seriously, love your work
Always looking for a better layout for the shop.
Cliff
One more to the list.
I have a few other of Chris’s books and I’m sure that this one will be just a good and entertaining as the other ones.
Thanks for the contest! Even if I’m not the winner, looking forward to a good read.
Would love to have this book to give me practical ideas on how to set up my new shop.
Need to organize my shop and this would really help get things done.
copy please!
Sounds like a great resource to use as I plan my shop.
Looks like a great addition to my well worn reference library.
What a great book thanks for the giveaway
Looks like a great book.
Fingers crossed.
Moving some things around in the shop, could use a copy to help make some decisions.
does the book have plans to build that work bench?
Pick me!
Have been doing some rearranging in my shop. Would be nice for some ideas for further improvement.
If i make a dad joke about the book title do I get another entry?
Looks like another useful addition to the lineup!
Need help building the Roubo bench on the cover.
I could sure use this book. Ready to redo my shop and build a Shaker workbench.
Bruce M.
Go Boilers!
Just really getting my feet wet in wodo working and I have been planning setting up and organizing my shop. Would be amazing if I won.
I suppose this would look better on the bookshelf than all that sawdust!
I’ll throw my name in the ring. Looks like a wonderful reference book to have. Thank you for the opportunity.
This would be an amazing book to start my shop with! Thank you for the opportunity.
the preview looks great. fingers, toes, and eyes crossed.
I flipped through the preview pages, and this looks like really useful stuff! Thanks.
Looking forward to this book!!!
Never win random drawings but feel pretty good about this one
Would love a copy for a new woodworker!
I am always looking for more good reading
That’s a great looking workbench on the cover. I look forward to reading the book.
Popular Woodworking gets the balance right between old and new, power and manual, inspiration and instruction. All the while, bringing us the voices of the woodworkers we most want to learn from.
Building my work bench right now this book comes at just the right time.
We’re about to move to a new space — this book would be a great help in figuring out the new space!
I have become handicapped and now have to downsize enormously. I don’t want to give up woodworking and need to come up with a way to continue, but with much smaller projects.
The book might help me. It sounds like good reading.
Free is me! But I’ll probably buy a copy if I don’t win.
I would love this book!
This looks like a great book!
Looking forward to reading this (and possibly winning a copy)
I would love this book. Working on shop projects. making tools, and organization is my favorite thing to while woodworking.
When Chris left the magazine, as editor, I was concerned regarding the welfare of the magazine.
I’m happy to report that the magazine has continued to fill the pages with great content and will keep me as a loyal reader.
Looks like a great book being given away which would look nice in my collection.
Whether I win it or have to purchase it, I look forward to reading it.
57th!
This book will be useful now as I begin woodworking in retirement.
I’ll join with the crowd. Just don’t drag me off the plane.
I hope to Schwarzify and Meganize the third bay in my garage into a respectable shop.
Thank you for the giveaway and good luck with your new book Chris!
I learned a lot from your Workbenches book and Two-Day-Workbench video when making my bench. I look forward to your ideas on reorganizing and optimizing my shop.
Love to get my FIL’s shop in order using the book’s principles!
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Looks like something I could definitely use.
Fingers crossed!
Looks like a good book.
If you saw my shop, you would understand my need for this book.
Yes, please!
Great looking book!
I must downsize my shop and this book would be perfect. I am also excited to see how I can shape this new shop to my disability.
I am on a woodworking book collecting frenzy lately… Mostly Goodwill finds
Sounds like a good book!
Love that bench!
Put me in, coach; I’m ready to play….
My poor disguise for a workshop is my garage 🙂
Nice looking bench!
A garage is a poor disguise for a workshop.
Please! PLEASE! Pick ME!!!!!
Looks like a god book to buy even if I don’t win it.
Any samples or table of contents available? Would like to see how much of it sounds applicable to my situation. On the other hand, just winning one would show me, too!
In a 5 ft 9″ basement anything could help.
Looks like an appropriate addition to any dedicated woodworkers library
Don’t make me buy it, just give it to me.
I am in the process of redoing my shop area. Love reading about this type of thing .
Looks like a great book!
Looks like a great book?
I would love this to help me plan my workshop/bench build!
A great addition to my woodworking library!
I almost hope that Chris Schwarz wins the book.
Nah.. It is probably better that I get it 🙂
Pick me, Pick me! I’m tired of rearranging my shop every time I get a new piece of equipment!
Oh, would love this book.
Anything from Chris is worth reading 🙂
+1
I hope this comment is appropriately random.
I wonder what lives in that tote on the benchtop.
This book maybe the answer to providing insight, on to how to stop rearranging the shop with every project.
Me, please pick me!
I moved most everything to one side of my shop before Christmas and slowly began to move things to where I thought the flow would be better but I am still not happy with it. Bench placement against the wall or in the open floor? The photo would be appreciated by Atget.
I would love to have the book. Thanks!
I’m a book worm. Pick me. Pick me.
That sounds great, super useful!
I feel lucky. Scott, you can start writing my name inside the front cover. Thanks in advance. Oh, and congratulations to Chris. I thought that picture looked familiar. The 2005 on the leg vise gives it away.
I’m practically giddy with anticipation. 😉
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FInally, a photo I took ends up on a book cover. I am somebody!
My curiosity has been raised…sounds interesting!
Thanks for the giveaway contest opportunity!
Giggidy, giggidy!!
I should have purchased this along time ago because there is very little that is practical in my shop!
Well, it’s one for the money
Two for the show
Three to get ready
Now go, cat, go
I’d love a copy of this book.