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Digital Versions of The Anarchist's Tool Chest Available

“The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” is now available in a completely DRM-free format for your iPad, iPhone, Nook, Kindle or other electronic reader.

The price of the ePub version is $16.

This is exactly the same book – same words, photos and drawings – we have been offering since June 2011. But with the electronis version you will be able to search the entire book, write electronic notes in the margins, change the font size and (of course) carry it with you anywhere on an electronic reader.

Unlike many ePub and Kindle files, we chose to make ours without DRM – the acronym for “digital rights management.” Many electronic files with DRM are a pain to use. You might have to be connected to the Internet to read the book (that stinks on an airplane), or you can be restricted from copying the file for backup, or even simply copying and pasting passages from the book.

Frankly, DRM doesn’t jibe well with the philosophy of the book or its author.

So what is “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” about?

Notes from the Shop at Lost Art Press

Coming Soon: Make a Joint Stool from a Tree

One of the most pivotal woodworking books of the last 50 years is “Make a Chair from a Tree” by John D. Alexander.

Despite being long out of print, this book influenced several generations of woodworkers. It sparked a revolution in green woodworking, launched many love affairs with wood and was one of the first sparks that ignited the recent revival in hand joinery.

So it is with great pleasure we announce that Lost Art Press will be publishing the long-awaited follow up to this book, “Make a Joint Stool from a Tree: An Introduction to 17th-century Joinery” by Alexander (now Jennie) and Peter Follansbee, the joiner at Plimoth Plantation.

This book is a decades-long effort by these two woodworkers to research the tools, materials and processes used by 17th-century joiners to construct the gorgeous work of the time.

To piece the puzzle together, Alexander and Follansbee have studied the limited texts of the period, the tools and – perhaps most important – the surviving furniture record. These pieces gave up many of their secrets through close examination of the toolmarks left by the makers.

But “Make a Joint Stool from a Tree” is far from a dry historical text. In it, the authors take you into the forest and the workshop to find an oak, split it into bolts and turn those into a joint stool – an excellent first project for the new student of 17th-century methods.

While many of the tools from the 17th century look familiar to the 21st-century woodworker, the way in which they were used in the 17th century to make furniture is surprisingly different. How the green oak is processed, cut and joined to make the stool featured in the book will both stretch your skills and expand your understanding of the craft.

And with the help of Alexander and Follansbee, you will be able to build your own joint stool with just a few simple woodworking tools, a little determination and a strong back.

“Make a Joint Stool from a Tree” will be Lost Art Press’s first book in color and in a larger 9" x 12" page format. We are planning on releasing this book in late February 2012. Like all Lost Art Press books, this will be hardbound, Smyth sewn, printed on acid-free paper and produced entirely in the United States.

More details on the book, pricing, alternate editions and a release date will be released here on the blog in the coming months.

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