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Protecting your tools from moisture, dust, and shop goblins is important. Christopher Schwarz has been writing and teaching on tool chests for decades and recently revised his 15-year-old design, the Anarchist Tool Chest, featured in his book by the same title. We are pleased to coordinate with Chris to supply you with a premium clear eastern white pine material to build your chest.
Each material kit includes parts for the shell and lid of Chris's new design. Parts are thicknessed and sized for width, left slightly long for final trimming. The chest bottom is already milled into a tongue and groove, ready to cut to length.
Parts List
2pc- Front & back (multi-piece to glue up)
2pc- Ends (multi-piece to glue up)
2pc- Lower skirt, front & back
2pc- Lower skirt, ends
2pc- Top skirt, front & back
2pc- Top skirt
9pc- Bottom boards tongue and groove
2pc- Battens
2pc- Brackets for beckets
2pc- Rails
2pc- Stiles
1pc- Panel (may come single piece or in 2 pieces to glue up)
1pc- Dust seal, front
2pc- Dust seal, ends
These are a Pre-Order and will ship the week of February 8th 2026 or before
Anarchist Tool Chest Material Kit
Shipping lumber across the country to different climates means your material must adapt to a new environment. Your material kit should be unboxed immediately and stacked with spacer sticks and weight or clamps to keep it flat as it gets used to the new environment. We keep parts a couple of inches long to account for any end cracks that may develop. Wide boards can be clamped in cauls. Eastern White Pine is a very stable material, but best practices must be observed.
This is a very large 98lb box that will ship UPS
