I try to keep my tool kit as small as possible. So if I don’t use a tool for a few years, I try to get it into someone else’s hands so they can use it. Sometimes that means selling it or giving it away. Back in 2010 I sold off a bunch of tools…
Read moreI promised students in my last Anarchist Tool Chest class that I’d do a video on cutting hinge mortises – so this is for them. — Fitz
Read moreWhen we sent our first book, “The Art of Joinery,” to press 15 years ago, I was teaching a class at Kelly Mehler’s School of Woodworking in Kentucky and got a phone call from the pre-press shop. “The interior folio looks fine,” the voice said. “But what are you going to put on the cover?”…
Read moreBy now, Megan Fitzpatrick has taught more tool chest classes than I ever have (or ever will). And she is Covington’s Queen of Dovetails. So it makes perfect sense that Marc Spagnuolo would ask her to host a long-form video on building a Traveling Anarchist’s Tool Chest. This is as close as you can get…
Read moreThe following is excerpted from “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest,” by Christopher Schwarz. “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest,” paints a world where woodworking tools are at the center of an ethical life filled with creating furniture that will last for generations. It makes the case that you can build almost anything with a kit of fewer than 50…
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