Wood (magazine)

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Wood is a magazine catering to the home and hobbywoodworker with offices are inDes Moines, Iowa, US.^[1] It claims more than 350,000 subscribers. It publishes seven regular issues annually (December/January, March, May, July, September, October, and November). It has the highest circulation of any woodworking magazine in the world.

History and profile

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Wood was founded in 1984 by Larry Clayton; it follows the principle ofBetter Homes and Gardens's test kitchen, where recipes published in the magazine have been tested. Every project in the magazine has been built inWood's woodworking shop; every woodworking technique published has been tried and accomplished by the editors; and every tool or product discussed has been shop-tested and its performance evaluated.

Founder Clayton waseditor-in-chief until retiring in 2000, after issue 132, April 2001; he was succeeded by Bill Krier, who retired in April 2012, followed by Dave Campbell, then Lucas Peters.^[2]