The Anarchist’s Gift Guide begins tomorrow (Nov. 1) on my blog at Popular Woodworking Magazine. The entries will appear every three days through the month of November.
Anarchist’s Gift Guide is a yearly thing I do that recommends mostly small, inexpensive and useful shop items (the least expensive item in this year’s guide is .89 cents). These blog entries are great to email to family members who are asking you what Uncle or Auntie Woodworker wants for Christmas.
Here are the rules: Nothing is sponsored. I purchase all the items myself with my own lunch money. Any manufacturer who asks to be included in the gift guide is automatically disqualified from being in the gift guide. (This disclaimer should give you some ideas about how other “gift guides” are constructed.)
After the gift guide entries, I have four more entries planned for that blog, and then it will end on Dec. 31. Next year’s gift guide will be posted here instead. (Are you saying “huh?” at this point? Read this.)
Hope the Gift Guide is useful, fun or something that makes you yell at your phone.
— Christopher Schwarz
Dear Chris.
I went on the PW blog (link that you post) , and end up looking at the Limbert blog. I tried to see the bookcase and other items but it gives me the infamous 404 Earth-Auto-Destruct-Stupid- Humans Error.
Could you tell me where they are hiding now?
Thanks
No clue I’m afraid. Many links are down after a system upgrade there. I am just the typist.
No problem . Then… any photos somewhere of the Limbert’s objects you are writing about ?
What is the story you are trying to read? I have written dozens of pieces about Limbert in the last 20 years.
About your own Limbert furniture that you have made. But , no stress : I’ll google your name and Limbert and I will surely find something 😉 I am stating soon the book from Nancy about A&C. Thanks for your time .
Hey, send me an email, david.lyell@fwmedia.com if you are bumping into 404s. We’re actively documenting them for the dev team.
It’d be nice to have a summary page for the Gift Guide, reduced to item, price range, a sentence or so about why this item made the cut, and a link to the full description. That’d make doing a quick scan for ideas/solutions/recommendations significantly easier. Shouldn’t take long to rattle off, either, or be hard to maintain going forward.
Feel free to take that on. I’m afraid I’m not adding things to my plate these days.
Also Chris please snail mail me a hard copy of the summarized gift guide. I prefer 14 point font because my eyes are bad. Should only take you a few mins. I don’t want to post my home address, but I am sure you can spend a few minutes cross referencing my email address with my IP address and public records to sort it out. Thanks man, UR THE BEST!
Same here!!
ahahahahahah! Good one.
Same here but size 12 is fine. Times New Roman tho. Thanks so much.
Wing dings, please.
I echo many of the other comments.
You’ve been and will continue to be regarded as one of the most important woodworking writers of the past century. Great work. Thank you.
Good luck and continued success.
Brian Greene – Ottawa
When I click on the link it takes me to the website, but no content comes up. Anyone else have the same problem or does Popular Woodworking just hate me?
I don’t think this is the place to bash PW, but a few years ago I was repeatedly bounced out of their subscription system at renewal time. I kept buying at the news stand for a while until Ms. Fitzpatrick left. Today, I keep getting bounced out of their website when I try to read Mr. Schwarz’ blog. I feel like they really don’t want me as a reader or a subscriber…so fine, I take 10 or 12 other magazines, four on woodworking. I’ll just stick with those.