Lost Art Press Books

Lost Art Press Books

 

Lost Art Press LLC is a small publishing company in Fort Mitchell, Ky., that seeks to help the modern woodworker learn traditional hand-tool skills. Since World War II, traditional and effective hand skills have disappeared from the home, professional and school woodshops in North America.

Those quickly disappearing hand skills have been replaced by a reliance on machine work, even when it is less effective, slower or sloppier.

The founders of Lost Art Press – Lucy May, Christopher Schwarz and John Hoffman – are trying to restore the balance between hand and machine work by unearthing the lost art of hand skills and explaining how they can be integrated with the machinery in the modern shop to help produce furniture that is crisp, well-proportioned, stout and quickly made.

Christopher Schwarz is the former editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine , where he worked between 1996 and 2011. He is now a contributing editor to that magazine. He also serves as a contributing editor to The Fine Tool Journal and has produced several DVDs in conjunction with Lie-Nielsen Toolworks on traditional skills.

 

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Virtuoso: The Tool Cabinet and Workbench of H.O. Studley

Virtuoso: The Tool Cabinet and Workbench of H.O. Studley

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American Peasant

American Peasant

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Backwoods Chairmakers: In Search of the Appalachian Ladderback Chairmaker

Backwoods Chairmakers: In Search of the Appalachian Ladderback Chairmaker

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By Hand & Eye

By Hand & Eye

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By Hound & Eye

By Hound & Eye

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Cadi & the Cursed Oak

Cadi & the Cursed Oak

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Campaign Furniture

Campaign Furniture

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Carving the Acanthus Leaf

Carving the Acanthus Leaf

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Country Woodcraft: Then & Now

Country Woodcraft: Then & Now

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Cricket Tables

Cricket Tables

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Cut & Dried: A Woodworker's Guide to Timber Technology

Cut & Dried: A Woodworker's Guide to Timber Technology

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Euclid's Door: Building the Tools of ‘By Hand & Eye’

Euclid's Door: Building the Tools of ‘By Hand & Eye’

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From Truths to Tools

From Truths to Tools

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Hands Employed Aright

Hands Employed Aright

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Ingenious Mechaniks

Ingenious Mechaniks

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James Krenov: Leave Fingerprints

James Krenov: Leave Fingerprints

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Karvsnitt: Carving, Pattern & Color in the Slöjd Tradition

Karvsnitt: Carving, Pattern & Color in the Slöjd Tradition

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Kitchen Think

Kitchen Think

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Making Things Work: Tales From a Cabinetmaker’s Life (2nd Edition)

Making Things Work: Tales From a Cabinetmaker’s Life (2nd Edition)

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Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works

Mechanick Exercises or the Doctrine of Handy-Works

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Mouldings In Practice - Bickford

Mouldings In Practice - Bickford

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Principles of Design: Furniture, Pottery & Metalwork

Principles of Design: Furniture, Pottery & Metalwork

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Set & File: A Practical Guide to Saw Sharpening

Set & File: A Practical Guide to Saw Sharpening

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Shaker Inspiration: Five Decades of Fine Craftsmanship

Shaker Inspiration: Five Decades of Fine Craftsmanship

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Shop Tails: The Animals Who Help Us Make Things Work

Shop Tails: The Animals Who Help Us Make Things Work

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