The American Peasant Substack
A Mind Like a Limp Balloon
Chris recently spent a couple of days in North Carolina shooting pictures (2,400 of them!) for Elia Bizzarri's upcoming book – and like every time he spends a day or more with other makers, he learns something new about the craft.
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Earlywood: Like Your Woodworking Teacher? Maybe You Shouldn't
In this post originally from 2017, Chris writes about abuse as a teaching method. And how today, he adopts a friendlier approach (lucky for Kale, and for me, too!)
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Revise This
Chris is working on a revised edition of "The Anarchist's Tool Chest," with updates not only to how he now makes the case (literally and figuratively), but to the list of tools (and defense thereof) inside the chest – and substack subscribers get a free preview.
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The Anarchist's Apprentice Substack
An Interview with Elia Bizzarri
Chairmaker/green woodworker Elia Bizzarri is one of the few young makers I know who had an apprenticeship (though not a formal one). Chris interviews him on camera about his training and experience with his mentors.
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New How-To Video, Who Dis?
Kale gives us a preview of a video they are shooting (right now!) with Dinkle's Woodshop on making the chair from Chris's soon-to-go-to-press book "Build A Chair From Bulls%$t."
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