The American Peasant Substack
The John Brown Tapes
After four years of trying and failing, Chris finally found a way (AI is good for some things!) to clean up hours of video of John Brown speaking about chairs at Drew Langsner's Country Workshops in 1997. We've broken into part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.
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Earlywood: Furniture from Another Planet
Take a trip back to the Middle Ages for an illuminating perspective on common furniture forms.
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For Sale: Katherine's Painted Irish Chair
The current apprentice put to work her artistic training and talents to work (after making good use of her woodworking skills) to make a singular chair. And it's for sale.
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Anarchism on Willard Street
We get asked a lot – a LOT – about what Chris means by the word "anarchist" in the titles of the trilogy. Here's an answer.
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The 7 (No, 8!) Crimes of the Craft
In a riff on Gandhi's seven social sins, here are what Chris sees as Crimes against woodworking.
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The Anarchist's Apprentice Substack
Picking my Third Apprenticeship Chair
Find out which of her the boss's chair designs Katherine has chosen for her third apprenticeship chair build (it's my favorite).
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Chisel Hazing
A few weeks back we wrote about the Zen-Wu Y-2 chisels for Never Sponsored; Katherine hit chisels (it wasn't hazing!) – for hours.
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Never Sponsored Substack
Book Review: 'Make Things. From Wood.'
Katherine reviews Annabelle June Buckland's new book written for beginning woodworkers.
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