One of the most distinguished woodworkers of North America, John Metz, helped developing one of the most recent woodworking plans packages available today. I right away decided to do a decent woodworking4home review, when I learned about John's involvement, knowing that John Metz has some twenty plus years of professional woodworking experience. As for the program itself, John's involvement was pretty heavy, he selected most of the plans and blueprints in the package, edited some of them, and added valuable insight as to e.g. woodworking techniques etc. to the program.
When I saw the price advertised for the package, I was really surprised -they supposedly only ask for about $49.- (and a full 60 days money back guarantee) for the entire woodworking package. That package would include approximately 14,000 plans, from the smallest plant-stand or letter holder, all the way up to detailed plans for several different styles sheds. I have been doing some minor woodworking projects myself in the past, but I never owned or had handy an entire library of different woodworking projects. Instead, for the most part, I downloaded single plans from the internet; when checking out some of the woodworking plans from teds woodworking, I quickly realized that I paid a lot more in total when adding all these $5.- to $20.- single plans I downloaded from the internet. As a matter of fact, I paid like around 10 times more than the entire woodworking4home package cost me altogether. And with that one, I have access to over 14,000 plans; in my mind, an incredible value.
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Also, most of the times, people who start out with one single woodworking project, keep adding more and more projects to their to-do, or wish list, as they grow to more experienced woodworkers. Woodworking seems to be simply one of these hobbies that gets people really hooked, once they got started with it. At least, that is definitely my own experience; so having said that, in my mind it simply makes a lot more sense to get it right from the beginning, and get the entire package, rather than having to search the internet for hours and hours to get some ok-working blueprints, all in various different formats, and end up paying so much more in total.
The other thing I liked about this program was that all plans are in .pdf format, can be viewed, stored, printed etc, as many times as you want. It is also very convenient if you want to share these plans with e.g. friends, in order to discuss s certain woodworking project, or in order to share some experience. The plans can simply be for example emailed and as such easily shared.
The package is well rounded as far as the 14,000 plans it contains; however, it does not stop there, as there are plenty of detail-videos, parts- and materials lists, a general tips-and-trick section on woodworking, and so much more. In my opinion, a fantastic product at a great price; I do appreciate the 60 days money back guarantee which is yet another advantage I did not get from many of the smaller single-plan vendors I found on the internet. Some other programs out there that have plenty of woodworking plans inside, can be found at this review here at http://www.woodworkingplanner.com/woodworking-reviews.php
