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New online feature: Letters to the Editor
Every issue of The Scale Cabinetmaker included "Letters
to the Editor. " The letters and the In the Interim column
were my father's favorite parts of every TSC. They were the last
two pieces of each TSC he wrote, waiting until the end of the publication
process to peruse a quarter's worth of letters to find the ones
with questions, ideas, suggestions, or alternative solutions to
a particular problem. The exchange of ideas was what he loved about
teaching and the habits of the classroom transferred to the pages
of The Scale Cabinetmaker. He looked forward to trying out readers'
suggestions on the workbench, applauding others' work, and celebrating
the breadth of ideas that arrived weekly in the postal box.
After much debate in the depot offices, we have decided
to rekindle the give and take Jim Dorsett so dearly loved. We are
not entirely sure how well this will work because it is, for us,
an experiment. Initially, we thought we could put together a blog,
but neither of us have one iota of programming capability beyond
what Dreamweaver allows us to do, so we are taking a more traditional
approach and replicating the original Letters column in html. Over
the past few months, we have received a lot of questions. While
most are related to our publication schedule, too often dictated
by fulltime jobs in fields other than miniatures (by training, I'm
a comprehensive land use planner), there are others, like the ones
we have included in the first letters column
Dorsett Publications announces the long-awaited release
of Volume 1 of The Scale Cabinetmaker. The electronic version
(interactive pdf files) includes all four issues from Volume 1 not
included in the printed original, including an introduction to the
cd project by Jim Dorsett, From the workbench of... series (original
shop notes from Jim and Helen Dorsett), an index of Volume 1 (beginnings
of a cummulative index), and a reading list of sources and quotations.
The price of the cd is $29 for North American orders
and $39 for international orders, the same price as a one year subscription
to The Scale Cabinetmaker.
Projects and technique articles include:
Dorsett Publications, LLC
