[{"id":167872757823,"handle":"the-anarchist-series-of-books","updated_at":"2024-11-20T22:30:09-05:00","published_at":"2020-11-23T15:11:09-05:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"'The Anarchist' Series of Books","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\"The Anarchist\" series of books by Christopher Schwarz represent a 10-year effort to make woodworking more accessible, affordable and ethical – and less commercial. Each book addresses an important aspect of the craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The Anarchist's Tool Chest\"\u003c\/strong\u003e shows you how you can build furniture with only a small kit of high-quality tools. The first half of the book explains in detail how to choose the right tools, regardless of brand name. You'll learn what makes a good hammer, a good block plane and a good awl – so you can make good decisions when buying new or antique tools. The second half of the book shows you how to build a traditional tool chest to hold these tools and explains: If a tool doesn't fit in the chest, you probably don't need it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The Anarchist's Design Book: Expanded Edition\"\u003c\/strong\u003e shows you how to put those tools to work to build an entire house full of furniture with simple tools and methods. The Design Book explores \"staked\" and \"boarded\" forms of furniture – two efficient and nearly forgotten ways of making furniture that is sturdy, good-looking and easy to build. Additionally, the Design Book explores (and debunks) many of the myths we have about furniture and good craftsmanship. Wild ornament, flashy woods and complexity don't always make for good furniture. And the Design Book asks: Why would you want to imitate the taste of your boss's boss's boss?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The Anarchist's Workbench\"\u003c\/strong\u003e explains how to build the last workbench you'll ever need using home center construction lumber and simple woodworking tools. This book, the final in the Anarchist Series, encourages you to make the simplest bench possible and then add complexity from there. The bench plans featured in the book are based on a 15th-century design that emerged from France and Low Countries. And it has yet to be eclipsed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese three books have been the most successful titles published by Lost Art Press. Their simple message \"build instead of buy\" has been embraced by woodworkers all over the world and nudged many amateurs to quit their corporate jobs and make a living with their hands. You might not go that far. But then, maybe you will. Here's how to find out.\u003c\/p\u003e","image":{"created_at":"2020-11-23T15:11:07-05:00","alt":null,"width":1500,"height":1125,"src":"\/\/lostartpress.com\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/anarchist-series-of-books-IMG_0179.jpg?v=1606162268"}},{"id":14049677,"handle":"dvds","title":"Videos","updated_at":"2024-11-21T01:50:25-05:00","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0306\/3197\/files\/whitney-dovetails.jpg?v=1715427238\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometimes words are not enough to explain some woodworking operations. That's why we offer video instruction. Lost Art Press videos are precise and sharply edited so you don't have to scroll endlessly through the blather. All our videos are sold without any Digital Rights Management (DRM), so you can download the videos to whatever device you like and watch them without being connected to the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2013-12-16T11:32:00-05:00","sort_order":"created-desc","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"type","relation":"equals","condition":"Videos"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2024-05-11T07:32:52-04:00","alt":null,"width":1950,"height":1100,"src":"\/\/lostartpress.com\/cdn\/shop\/collections\/whitney-dovetails.jpg?v=1715427172"}}]
In this video, Megan Fitzpatrick shows you how make and install the interior structures of a full-size English tool chest (in this case, an "Anarchist's Tool Chest") with three sliding tills and their runners, a combination hanging tool rack/backsaw rack, a floor till for full-size hand saws, and a moulding plane till.
Megan has built dozens of these chests for customers and has refined the techniques for making the tills, tool rack and saw till well beyond what is covered in the book, "The Anarchist's Tool Chest." Many of her methods make the interior easier to build and fit into the chest. Plus they are reversible (in case your heirs ever want to turn your tool chest into a blanket chest).
You'll also learn how to install the hardware: ring pulls for the tills, chest handles, hinges and a "crab lock." Finally, you'll see how Megan installs casters and deals with keeping the lid open. She discusses how to finish the interior (or not) and the paint she uses for the exterior of chests.
The video is nearly two hours long and can be watched one of two ways. You can stream it (after logging into your account here at Lost Art Press). Or you can download the video and put it on any device. The video is offered without DRM (digital rights management), so the files will be easily moved to any of your devices, now and in the future.
The video also includes Megan's notes on construction and sources for the hardware and tools shown in the video.
