A review by noahlang
The Anarchist's Workbench by Christopher Schwarz

5.0

At 14, I carved a wooden dowel into a lightsaber on a built-in garage workbench. A few years later, I turned a 2x4 into a scabbard for a sword using a Black&Decker Workmate. Apart from these brief and superficial experiments, I am not a woodworker. Before this book, I was not particularly interested in woodworking.

Now, I yearn for the simplicity and self-sufficiency of a life lived according to Shwarz's succinct advice: "Buy good tools, build a simple workbench and build everything in your home."

This book gave me an understanding of and an appreciation for woodworking that I didn't know I needed.