The Shopsmith producers and editors seem to be pretty ambitious. Lots of projects, tips, reviews and such. Their center section is really one or two articles in the ShopNotes style. I bought the CD of Shop Notes and the DVDs of their TV show (up to season 10 now.
There was a string awhile ago on the Router show and how they presented very basic material with simplicity as a way of working. Although the ShopNotes crew put out some corny production conversations, they do advocate very straight forward and basic methods to accomplish a lot of woodworking. And when they add a season, you can get the new DVD for $10. I think their magazine subscription is a good value, but their subscription video is not. I think the ShopNotes DVD with every issue in pdf, is about $100, an excellent value and since it's pdf, you can copy it over to a hard drive in case the DVD fails (10 year MTBF for that media).
There was a string awhile ago on the Router show and how they presented very basic material with simplicity as a way of working. Although the ShopNotes crew put out some corny production conversations, they do advocate very straight forward and basic methods to accomplish a lot of woodworking. And when they add a season, you can get the new DVD for $10. I think their magazine subscription is a good value, but their subscription video is not. I think the ShopNotes DVD with every issue in pdf, is about $100, an excellent value and since it's pdf, you can copy it over to a hard drive in case the DVD fails (10 year MTBF for that media).