Campaign Furniture

Christopher Schwarz

Lost Art Press

L'art Du Menuisier The Book of Plates

Great book in excellent shape! If you know Christopher Schwarz, this is a must-have book for your library!

The Anarchist's Design Book

Ingenious Mechanicks: Early Workbenches & Workholding

"Handplane Essentials" contains information you need to choose the right tool for your budget and projects and its proper use and care The chapters in this book have been compiled from more than 10 years of the author's writing on the subject of handplanes in magazines, trade journals and blogs.

Woodworking Magazine Handplane Essentials

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

F+W Media

The Anarchist's Design Book is an exploration of furniture forms that have persisted outside of the high styles that dominate every museum exhibit, scholarly text and woodworking magazine of the last 200 years. In this newest release from Lost Art Press, readers will explore less talked about styles of furniture from outside the realm of museum and auction classics. This book explores 11 surprisingly simple "staked" and "boarded" furniture forms - bed, dining table, chairs, chests, desks, shelving - and offers a deep exploration into the two construction techniques used to make them. The Anarchist's Design Book shows the overarching patterns behind these 11 pieces and will provide readers with a foundation on which they can design and build their own work. Like The Anarchist's Toolchest, this book strays from conventional high-style wisdom and focuses on furniture to make and live with. Simple to build, and requiring only a few basic tools, these lesser-known styles will round out your furniture vocabulary. The new expanded edition of The Anarchist's Design Book has 656 pages (200 more than the first edition) that are sewn for long-term durability. The book is 8" x 10", casebound and sheathed in thick hardback boards that are covered in cotton cloth. This is the largest book Lost Art Press has published to date.

The Anarchist's Design Book Expanded Edition

“The Anarchist’s Workbench” is – on the one hand – a detailed plan for a simple workbench that can be built using construction lumber and basic woodworking tools. But it’s also the story of Christopher Schwarz’s 20-year journey researching, building and refining historical workbenches until there was nothing left to improve. Along the way, Schwarz quits his corporate job, builds a publishing company founded on the principles of mutualism and moves into an 1896 German barroom in a red-light district, where he now builds furniture, publishes books and tries to live as an aesthetic anarchist. “The Anarchist's Workbench” is the third and final book in the “anarchist” series, and it attempts to cut through the immense amount of misinformation about building a proper bench. It helps answer the questions that dog every woodworker: What sort of bench should I build? What wood should I use? What dimensions should it be? And what vises should I attach to it? These questions are answered with the perspective of 2,000 years of workbench history. Surprisingly, the way we immobilize pieces of wood to work on them hasn’t changed much in the last 700 years. But what has changed are the raw bench-building materials available to the modern woodworker. Gone are the massive slabs of oak, maple and beech that built the Western workbenches of our ancestors. In their stead, we have very expensive hardwoods, plus inexpensive softwoods used for residential construction – yellow pines and firs – that (when used thoughtfully) can produce workbenches that are as heavy, tough and useful as historical examples. “The Anarchist's Workbench” also seeks to open your eyes to simpler workbench designs that eschew metal fasteners and instead rely only on the time-tested mortise-and-tenon joint that’s secured with a drawbored peg. The bench plan in the book is based on a European design that spread across the continent in the 1500s. It has only 12 joints, weighs more than 3

The Anarchist's Workbench

The Stick Chair Book

Mechanick Exercises Or The Doctrine Of Handy-works

Joseph Moxon

Lost Art Press, LLC

Stick Chair Journal No. 1

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