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A Cool Solution for Traveling Tools

Megan Fitzpatrick — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:17:49 +0000

I’ve long been looking for the perfect rug for my dining room (which may become my shop if I can’t soon find the perfect house in my price range, but that’s a story for another day), so I regularly troll a local online auction site, on which I can’t seem to keep from looking at … Read more »

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The Great Australian Tool Chest Experiment

Christopher Schwarz — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:55:47 +0000

I’ve been teaching classes on building “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” for two years now, and with every class I find some way of goosing the students a bit further along. Last year at The Woodwright’s School we actually got two of the 12 students completely over the finish line. This week, I hope to shatter … Read more »

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(W)racked with Indecision

Megan Fitzpatrick — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 05:21:51 +0000

I don’t know why, but I didn’t like the idea of a saw till on the floor of my tool chest full across the front, walled off from the rest of the floor space (like what Christopher Schwarz installed in his “Anarchist’s Tool Chest“). Instead, I put my panel saws on the underside of my … Read more »

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A Machinist’s Chest for Woodworkers?

Adam Cherubini — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:45:30 +0000

I hope you are enjoying my latest series on my new tool chest. The project was born this time last year during the FWW presentations at Colonial Williamsburg’s “Working Wood in the 18th Century” conference. The FWW presenters, in my opinion, were wrestling with the differences between executing 18th-century work using 18th-century approaches, (I don’t … Read more »

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Build (Another) Tool Chest

Christopher Schwarz — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:13:09 +0000

When you’ve worked out of a traditional tool chest for 15 years, you sometimes forget how excellent it is to work from. That is, until you teach others how to build the chest. This week, I’m at Roy Underhill’s woodworking school, “The Woodwright’s School.” This is the last class I’m teaching in 2012 (aside from … Read more »

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The Joy of Chests

Christopher Schwarz — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:03:51 +0000

I can build a six-board chest entirely by hand in about 10 hours of shop time. That time starts with one 8’-long and one 12’-long board and ends with a paint job. In fact, I just did. The above statement is not a boast. Instead, it is a way to encourage you to build one … Read more »

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Make Wooden Chest Handles, the Woodwright’s Way

Christopher Schwarz — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:33:53 +0000

I have intended for 14 months to add handles to the chest I built for “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest.” And in fact, I had a pair of cool iron chest lifts that a kind reader sent me. But life and other projects kept getting in the way of making the gaping mortises for these cool … Read more »

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Build a Tool Chest at ‘The Woodwright’s School’

Christopher Schwarz — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:31:18 +0000

Monday’s “Anarchist’s Tool Chest” class “The Woodwright’s School” was the first of five days of dovetailing. By the end of the week, everyone will be able to cut dovetails in their sleep. And we’ll all be so tired that we might have to. Be sure to visit The Woodwright’s School online. Click here to purchase … Read more »

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Psst, Hey Troublemaker. Wanna Buy a Book?

Christopher Schwarz — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:19:38 +0000

I am pleased to announce that ShopWoodworking.com now sells “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest,” a book that took me two years to write. And the process of writing this book so changed my perspective on the world that I stepped down as editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine. The book has its critics, and I imagine you’ll … Read more »

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A Comedy of Errors

Megan Fitzpatrick — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:13:22 +0000

For the last couple weeks, we were scrambling to get ready for Woodworking in America. Now, we’re scrambling to get all the in-house stories written, and the freelance stories in, edited and designed for the December issue, for which the binder read-through is this Thursday. And I had to scramble to get the I Can … Read more »

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