The Anarchist's Tool Chest, Revised Edition (book)

Fourteen years after the release of The Anarchist's Tool Chest, Christopher Schwarz spent almost a year revising every sentence and idea in the book. The result is a text that is even more pointed than the original. The message: Buy good tools (here's how). Build a chest to protect them. And while you're at it... quit corporate America.

The Anarchist's Tool Chest: Revised Edition 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 high-quality tools, and it shows you how to select real working tools, regardless of their vintage or brand name. It will guide you in building a proper chest for your toolkit that follows the ancient rules that have been forgotten or ignored.

For the revised edition, Schwarz shortened the list of tools he recommended in the original text. After building the chest over and over with students, Schwarz and his shopmate Megan Fitzpatrick came up with many ways to make construction of the chest easier, without sacrificing anything in strength or beauty, creating more space for tools with easier ways to get at them.

The book is printed entirely in the United States on heavier, smoother paper than the original, giving crisp type and photos, and the interior pages have been redesigned from scratch with a larger, more readable typeface. Published by Lost Art Press.