Dutch Tool Chests By Lost Art Press' Megan Fitzpatrick gives you the in-depth instruction you need to build your own slant-lid tool chest – from choosing materials, to the joinery, the hardware, the interior parts that hold your tools and the paint.

At the same time, the book offers you detailed instructions on how to grow as a hand-tool woodworker. Author Megan Fitzpatrick offers a complete, clear and insanely detailed description of how to cut through-dovetails. Plus a detailed guide to cutting dados by hand. Plus rabbets, simple fielded panels, cut nails, screws, hinges and fitting chest lids. Building your own Dutch tool chest with the help of this book will make you a better hand-tool woodworker.

Dutch Tool Chests contains complete plans and cutting lists for two different sizes of this portable chest – plus additional plans for a rolling base that adds even more storage.

But the book is not just about building the exterior chest walls. Dutch Tool Chests shows you how to outfit the interior of your chest to hold chisels, marking knives and other pointy tools on the back wall. Plus saw tills and cubbies for jointer, jack and smooth planes.

If that's not enough, Dutch Tool Chests offers a gallery of chests from 43 other makers that show modifications and additions for you to consider. You'll find ingenious ideas for using the chest's tool bay (or bays). Clever rolling bases. Oversized (or undersized) chests. Mind-blowing uses of the back of the fall front and or/underside of the lid. And other unique solutions that set them apart. 

About the Physical Book

Dutch Tool Chests is 8-1/2” x 11” and is printed in Tennessee on #70 matte-coated paper on a Japanese-built sheet-fed printing press. The pages are folded into signatures, sewn, glued and reinforced with fibre-based tape to create a permanent binding. We're told Lost Art Press books regularly survive floods and attacks by dogs and toddlers.

The 192-page interior is then attached to heavy (98-pt.) cotton-covered boards using a thick paper hinge. The cover and spine are adorned with a foil die stamp. The image is physically stamped into the cloth and the board, giving the cover a texture you won’t get from modern digital books.

The book is designed to be used – hard – and survive more than a century of use.

About Lost Art Press:

Lost Art Press LLC was founded in 2007 by two enthusiastic woodworkers, John Hoffman and Christopher Schwarz, while attending a Lie-Nielsen Toolworks Open House in Warren, Maine. The company started with a question: What happened to all the great woodworking books that used to be published? The books that changed the course of the craft and people’s lives? The books that explored our ever-diminishing link to the handwork of previous centuries? Flash forward to today, Lost Art Press ships about 60,000 books a year, which makes them still a tiny publisher in the grand scheme of things, but allows important, valuable texts to be produced, fairly and equitably for generations to come. As a family business ourselves, we absolutely love the principles and foundations that Lost Art Press is built upon, and proudly stock a large range of their books.