Author Archives: Lost Art Press

The Fancy Lads Return

I posted this list on Twitter in a scattershot manner earlier. Some people (Lucy) complained that they somehow missed big parts of this list. So here you go. You might be a wiener woodworker if: You call yourself a “master” woodworker without the documentation. You write and talk about yourself in the third person. You…

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Day 1: 2021 Anarchist’s Gift Guide

If you’ve read our gift guide before, you can skip this preamble. There’s nothing new here. The Anarchist’s Gift Guide is a small attempt to focus on the little things – mostly inexpensive – that make life in the workshop a little easier. It’s stuff your kids can afford to give you for Christmas and…

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The Anarchist’s Gift Guide (and Other News)

We will kick off the Anarchist Gift Guide on Thursday, Oct. 21 (tomorrow!). That’s a little earlier than usual, but the world is off its axis, and we want to give you plenty of time to get your gifts sorted for the holidays. Plus, this will be our biggest gift guide yet. If you aren’t…

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The Sinners’ Chopping Bench

When you examine the furniture record in person, you find almost endless examples of pieces of furniture that disobey the rules of wood movement – and yet have survived just fine.  I’m not here to tell you that wood movement does not exist – it does. But I think it’s important to know that you…

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