does anyone have any "popular mechanics" from the 50's?

Jeff,

Try ebay. My cousin once found a 1944 issue of Life Magazine there that had special interest to her.

B.

Jeff asks:

Might be...try your local library. At worst, they'll have PM on microfiche, which you can search manually (you'll get the hang of it, and it's not as bad as it seems, though it won't go down as competition for a tight ball game). Some libraries may have it on computer these days.

Charlie Self

"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." H. L. Mencken

$45.95

Tom Watson responds:

to 46 bucks. Five or six, sure. That must have been an amazing issue. I probably bought it, back then, though I was making the transition to Hot Rod with great rapidity by that time.

Charlie Self

"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." H. L. Mencken

Are you looking to make a Violin ?????

Good luck with the Strad replica. The controversy of what makes them so sweet goes on and on. If you are attempting to make one, I'm sure you've done a lot of reading. There is an interesting article a recent magazine, but I don't recall where I read it. Maybe someone else here can help.

The story was on a soldier that was in WWII in Italy. They had to destroy a

It's *NOT* impossible to find.

But, it takes a trip to the library.

The reference dept will have a series of books called: "The Readers Guide to Periodical Literature"

Which lists _every_ article in every mainstream magazine -- by title, and cross-references by subject.

You may have to check a couple of dozen volumes, typically each one is only a 6-month span.

It is also available in book form. Here is one on eBay for ten bucks so far: