MY FAVORITE WOODWORKING FORUM

There is no HobbitHouse forum and I have no intention that there ever will be, but I have, over the years, looked at probably every woodworking forum in the English-speaking world and I have joined two of them, leaving one of those after a while due to a fundamental dislike of the extent to which it was (without purporting to be) a commercial operation.

Many of the others seem like they might be OK, but for various reasons (too commercial, not enough activity, etc) I have found none of them to be suitable for my tastes.

The one that I have stayed with, and plan to continue staying with, is one that I recommend wholeheartedly to anyone interested in woodworking. It is a totally non-commercial forum (although it does have Google ads, like most sites) and is just chock-a-block with many hundreds of friendly and knowledgeable folks from all areas of woodworking, many of whom are very active on the forums. The activity is very high. It has, as I write this in 2011, well over 20,000 registered members and over 1,000 of those are designated as "active". It is typical to have many hundreds of posts every day, spread over numerous topics and there are many dozens of us that are regulars there so it would be very unusual for a question to go unanswered for very long (half a day would be VERY long).

As they used to say in that famous Alka-Seltzer commercial "try it ... you'll LIKE it!" BUT ... this woodworking forum won't give you heartburn, just lots of good info and chat about all things wooden all the way from cutting trees down and cutting them up to turning them into all kinds of products and how to finish them and what tools to use and on and on and on ...

In the intersts of full disclosure, I hasten to add that I have NO commercial interest of any kind in the site and I don't know the folks that own/run it --- I'm promoting it purely because I LIKE it !

www.woodworkingtalk.com

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NOTE: although the site is non-commercial and participation in the classified section is free, there IS a requirement that you be a participating member (25 posts) before you can use the classifieds, and that section is for regular members, not woodworking stores just looking for a free place to advertise so if that's what you're looking for, don't go there.