I should make it clear this will be a stand alone special publication, so this makes it problematic to have any content that isn't complete.

It will be bigger than an issue of MEW, so there will be room for some longer articles and some shorter ones.

In first 15 years of MEW most of the build articles were single instalments, in line with Stan Bray's original vision, and many of them were much more than 'weekend projects'. Issue 1 had power hacksaw in 8 pages, Harold's updated grinding rest was six pages (plus a page on modifying milling vices).

Ultimately the challenge will be to include projects with various levels of challenge and reflecting the way the magazine has evolved.

The option of revisiting one or two longer classic projects in the magazine proper is there, we will certainly have a few 'blasts from the past' over the year, although my preference is to have mostly new content in the magazine and make such extra content available digitally, so long-standing readers don't feel short changed.

I discussed one or two possible birthday bonuses with MTM, but for now these must remain a riddle, wrapped in mystery, inside an enigma…

Neil

Hi Rod,

There are various indexes that fulfil the function you want. I've created an article HERE with links to all the different indexes.

Neil

I haven't had a great deal of workshop time since the New Year. Among other reasons one is wading through my back copies of MEW, as the 25 Years of MEW Special will be appearing in the late Spring/early Summer.

I've found a few real gems – even within the constraints of having to keep to roughly 6-page articles as a maximum length, in order to be able to cover a good range of the magazines content over the years. One thing I like is that I've found some really useful tool builds that are either from stock items or you can still get the castings etc.

There are also some topics that have been really well explained.

The hardest thing is avoiding it becoming 'The very Best of Harold Hall' – perhaps that's the next one? Seriously though, I'm trying to ensure a good range of writers.

It won't just be reprints, there will be some context and reasons why articles have been chosen – and a few surprises.

BUT

Although I have found more good content than I can shake a drawbar at, I still won't finalise the list for a couple of weeks, so I'm still open to suggestions for articles to revisit (and yes, I have looked up all the ones mentioned above – and even got my hands on a Wimberley).