The American Peasant

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July 2025

Never Ever Teaching ‘The Anarchist’s Tool Chest’
We are now a couple weeks away from releasing the revised edition of “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest,” and several people have asked if I’m going to start…
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But it’s Not What They Want
Last week I visited the factory and tool store of Ray Iles, one of the sons of legendary toolmaker Ashley Iles. (Ray is pretty much a legend in his own…
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New East Coast Class: Build a Comb-Back Stick Chair
I join the roster at Peter Galbert's Maine workshop.
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Earlywood: Running Lights
Publisher’s note: Good morning.
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Christopher Schwarz
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Make Fresh Milk Paint with Nick Kroll
With a how-to video for paid subscribers.
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4 Chairs Down, 400 to Build
This week I visited Lincolnshire to measure three more early Lincolnshire Windsor chairs, talk with the collectors who own them and generally commune…
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Too Loose. Too Tight. Too Stupid to Teach it Right
Most chairmaking students want their joints to be tight like their casework joints, such as dovetails or a mortise and tenon.
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Bending Over – Honestly
Why is it difficult to replicate someone else’s steambending process?
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Earlywood: Dye My Underwear & Learn to Live Within My Limitations
Publisher’s note: It’s once again time for Earlywood, a free weekly excerpt from one of the thousands of pieces I’ve written since 1996.
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Shaker Design Meets European Modernism
For the most part, many Europeans are unfamiliar with the story of the American Shakers and their approach to furniture design.
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Earlywood: Charles H. Hayward: Duck, Duck, Goose
Publisher’s note: Once again it’s time for Earlywood, a free weekly excerpt from one of the thousands of pieces I’ve written since 1996.
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