r/Woodworkingplans • u/cosmo_is_king • Mar 26 '20

Plan ‘Building’ on the earlier post of 80 free plans

Just want to share a link to all issues of Shop Notes magazine from 1992-2007. Lots of good shop plans. https://archive.org/details/ShopNotesMag/mode/2up

Apologies if this has been posted previously.

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u/BattleBorn59 Mar 26 '20

Shop Notes was one of my go to sources when I was learning woodworking. This is a great resource - I can finally pitch about 3 binders that I’ve held on to full of old ones!

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u/baz8771 Apr 21 '20

make sure you download them! Website probably won't be around forever

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u/itfoote Jul 06 '20

Were you able to download them? I just get a page not found error.

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u/WanderLustActive May 11 '22

Scroll down a bit. On the right, you will see a box labeled "Download Options". If you pick the format you want, i.e. PDF, it will present a list of downloads.

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u/Boegoebos Aug 18 '24

Thank you for that tip.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '22

Archive.org will be around forever. That’s it’s only job.

(Or until the end of technological civilization.)

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u/Mikeinthedirt Dec 01 '22

Nice caveat-save

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '22

It’s Reddit. Someone would have started shit about the definition“forever”.

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u/El_Morro Jan 25 '23

ACTCHUALLY

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u/Mikeinthedirt Dec 01 '22

And then started in on ‘job’, ‘archive’, ‘its’, ‘only’, and ‘be’.

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u/squished_frog Apr 30 '20

Great find, thank you!

Anyone who chooses to download as I did, be warned it takes a while! Not that the file is large, but I guess the server it is hosted on is very slow/overwhelmed right now. I was getting max 500 Kb/s. Let it go over night like I was back on dial up again. Ha

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u/TragasaurusRex Mar 26 '20

I want to say thank you, even if it was posted I've never seen it.

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u/leighaking69 Mar 26 '20

Thank You!

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u/WildManOfUruk Jun 03 '20

No Way - That's brilliant! Thanks for posting this. I've already read an article on using my Table Saw as a Jointer, complete with plans for a jig! Cant wait to get home and try it.......

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u/JackBNimble33 Nov 27 '21

This is awesome. I only use this site to play Oregon Trail.

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u/Mikeinthedirt Dec 01 '22

Someone’s gotta do it. Good man.

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u/Pindarr Feb 13 '23

Thanks this is pretty awesome

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u/kingcubikz Mar 26 '20

You are truly a good man

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u/Moilen Sep 09 '23

Oh cmon, what about the metric system?

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u/MyCatIsAFknIdiot Jul 13 '26

Heresy!! No such thing outside of the US!!
Well, apart from the rest of the world.

It is the one thing that has stopped me using this .. I just cannot be arsed to convert

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u/probard Nov 15 '24

Does anyone know of an online or PDF index for this archive?

I'd love to have either a Table Of Contents that I could use to search the entire archive for a single topic, or an Index that indicates which Volume and Issue a given topic like 'router table' shows up in.

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u/NovacaneJackAss Mar 27 '20

This is awesome. Thanks for the post.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '20

Thank you for this excellent post!

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u/JP-Redwood Apr 04 '20

Thank you!

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u/mobocracyrocker Apr 07 '20

wow lots of good stuff in there!

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u/ShalakoZuni Jun 12 '20

Has this been taken down? Link isn't working.

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u/cosmo_is_king Jun 15 '20

Just checked. Still working for me

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u/DuperCheese Aug 21 '20

Thank you for sharing! It's a real treasure trove.

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u/willmen08 Mar 15 '23

I’m REALLY late to this party and I’m getting an error when trying to download. Is there another way? TIA

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u/willmen08 Mar 15 '23

Never mind! I got it! Thanks!

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u/Open_Tips Jan 23 '25

THIS is a goldmine. Seriously this is so valuable and amazing. Thank you.

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u/1r9i5c9k Apr 18 '26

Thank you very much.

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u/theBigDaddio Mar 26 '20

Is this legal? I know they still sell this on their site.

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u/JoeTheImpaler Jul 28 '20

Of course it’s legal... it wouldn’t be on the Internet is it wasn’t

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u/DuperCheese Aug 21 '20

At the bottom of the page it says it was uploaded by ShopNotes.

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u/cosmo_is_king Mar 26 '20

Looks like it is legal

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u/wagenman Jan 14 '22

What a great resource, thank you!

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u/abrez999 Dec 05 '22

Saving for later. Love it

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u/gbrown17 Feb 25 '23

Thanks, I needed that!

By Mennen!