With more than 500,000 subscribers, WOOD magazine is a the world's most-read magazine catering to the home and hobby woodworker. It publishes seven regular issues annually (December/January, March, May, July, September, October, and November), as well as seven newsstand-only issues related to shops, garages, organization and storage projects, shop jigs and fixtures, etc.

WOOD magazine was founded in 1984 on the principle of the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen, where no recipe goes into the magazine before it's tested. For woodworkers, that means that every project in the magazine has been built in WOODs own woodworking shop; every woodworking technique published has been tried and accomplished by the editors; and every tool or product that appears in the pages of the magazine has been shop-tested and its performance evaluated.

There have been only two Editors in Chief in WOODs 26-year history. Founder Larry Clayton retired in 2000, and current EIC Bill Krier has been at the helm since. Its editorial offices are in Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the US state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small portion of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857...

, and its advertising offices in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

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