Visit the store page of “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest: Revised Edition” to get a free copy of the book’s PDF. There are two links to download it in the first paragraph – the paragraph in italics – on the sales page. No need to give us your name, your number or your firstborn. Just click one of the two links.
– Fitz
p.s. If you find any errors, send them my way: fitz@lostartpress.com. (I do have the few already sent following the earlier subscriber PDF from The American Peasant substack and will be making updates before we reprint.)
Thank you!
… once again.
Thank you again for your generosity.
Amazing. Thank you. I made the plywood version you posted a long time ago. It’s worked great. I still use it, but it’s time to make a proper one. Can’t wait to dive in!
Thanks. I ordered the print version but it’s also nice to have it on my iPad so I can access it anywhere.
Awesome! I bought the original book a few years back and am curious to see the changes.
Please, I am dying to know– what do you mean by “smoke pistols”? “We had a 5-month-old
girl who didn’t like sleeping, and we had no family in town to help us
resist the urge to smoke pistols.” page 6. It reads like a verb, but smoke pistols are devices. Alarmed and puzzled! Plz tell!
Many thanks to Chris for posting the free PDF of the ATC. I purchased the original all those years ago and it is surely well used. I love books but the reality is that to get a copy to NZ is hugely expensive.
Me again– I am totally grooving on this book. Perhaps I can help pay for my free PDF with a bit of proofreading. P 232 “Early Roman workbenches were built like a Windsor chair.” I think you meant Morris chair? Chunky and sturdy, not spindly. cheerio!
Aha. I see there is an email addy for errors. TTYL!
They were built like a Windsor: the legs were stick-in-a-hole, and not square mortise and tenon. “Spindly” is right in the sense that windsors use spindles (ie/ round sticks that might be turned -spun- on a large, hence the name. But misleading in the sense of their strength factor: stick-in-hold joinery can be as strong as any. Sometimes stronger, because they use rived (read; no grain runout) rather than sawn parts.
Yup. Exactly correct.
Great now I have to reread the book for the fifth time .
Thanks Chris for the revised addition can’t wait to see the improvements
Thank you for your generosity and for your commitment to enriching the woodworking community and those who aspire to join it.
Knowing the author – I wonder if he did mean “blow my brains out”.
Thank you so much for your generosity.
I feel bad for asking but is there an errata / list of changes? I will happily dive in again, and I see the plans at the start have changed. I’m only in the section about planes though.