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Errata: Staked Low Stool in ‘The Anarchist’s Design Book’

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While building the Staked Low Stool this weekend during a class, I discovered a significant keystroke error in my text. I also noticed an inconsistency between the cutting list and the text.

So yesterday I rebuilt the stool to confirm there weren’t other errors (there weren’t).

Here are the two known errors:

  1. On page 92, the correct resultant angle for the stool is 21°, not 11°.
  2. On page 99, the correct size of the legs is 1-1/2” x 1-1/2”, not 1-3/4” x 1-3/4”.

We will include an errata sheet inside every copy of the expanded “The Anarchist’s Design Book.” That sheet will also include a url for downloading a corrected chapter. The chapter will be updated electronically for customers who purchased the pdf.

A Repair for ‘Roman Workbenches’

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If you aren’t satisfied printing out an erratum for page 28 of “Roman Workbenches,” here’s a second repair.

I am printing out the two missing lines from page 28 on some leftover Mohawk paper from the press run. I will be happy to snip them out and mail them to you so you can paste the lines in.

To get your literal snippet, send a Self-addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE) to me at:

Roman Erratum
Lost Art Press
26 Greenbriar Ave.
Fort Mitchell, KY 41017

— Christopher Schwarz

Erratum on ‘Roman Workbenches’

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Due to a manufacturing error, two lines of text on page 28 of “Roman Workbenches” did not make it onto the printed page. I have spent the morning trying to figure out how this happened, but my suspicion is it occurred as the plates were made.

Obviously, we cannot print and rebind all of these books (as much as we would like to). And so we are going to correct it here electronically and apologize for the mistake.

The two lines that are missing from the bottom of the page should say:

“most of the stock with a chisel. Then remove the waste with a router
plane like you are traversing the work (lock the board against the”

You can download a corrected page in pdf format. Feel free to cut out the two lines and paste them in your book (that’s what I’m going to do).

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As this error occurred on press, the pdf version of the book (which you can download for free with your printed version) does not have this error.

Apologies again.

— Christopher Schwarz

A Correction to ‘Chairmaker’s Notebook’

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cn_cover_webThis week we are sending “Chairmaker’s Notebook” by Peter Galbert out for a second printing.

Most of the changes made for the second printing are technical in nature – we adjusted the histogram of several of Peter’s hand-drawn images to darken them.

But there is one significant correction to the content of the book, so I would like to post that here for everyone to download for free.

In Chapter 3, Peter presents two pages of plans for the two chairs he built for the book. Because of a scanning error on my part (not Peter’s), the enlargement percentage shown on the pages of the first printing is incorrect. It should be 545 percent (not 540 percent).

Additionally, the drawings for the underside of the seat and the bending form for the balloon-back were slightly off the correct scale.

I spent the morning trying to figure out how I made this error. My conclusion: I screwed up something while scanning the original drawings.

You can download a pdf of the corrected version of those two pages here:

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My apologies for the error.

— Christopher Schwarz

Correction to Digital ‘Chairmaker’s Notebook’

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If you ordered a digital copy of “Chairmaker’s Notebook” – either the digital copy alone or the one packaged with the hardcover – check your Inbox. We have issued a new version of the digital copy of the book that corrects an error in the appendix on the shavehorse.

The hardcover version will be correct – so no worries there.

We don’t have a lot of errors, but when we find them, we issue a new digital version of the book for free download to current customers. We then publish the correction here on the web site for our print customers. And we offer a corrected page that you can slip into your print copy, as we did here.

All first editions (even from major publishers) have minor problems that slip by the editors and the author during the proofing process. The real test is what the publishing house does when an error is found.

Apologies for the error.

— Christopher Schwarz