Books by Drew Langsner
Country Woodcraft:
Then & Now
$54.00
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The hard cover Lost Art Press edition of Country Woodcraft: Then & Now is currently sold out. I am hoping that new inventory will be available by the end of 2025 or early 2026. Click the E-mail link below and leave a message if you wish to be contacted when books are back in stock. Do not pre-pay.
Country Woodcraft: Then & Now is an extensively edited and enlarged 2020 version of Country Woodcraft from 1978. All of the old info is there, including the classic black and white photos of Wille Sundqvist demonstrating knife grasps. Plus there’s new color photos, text and illustrations. The book features updated material on shaving horses (with detailed plans for my favorite Z-Mule,) how to make a slojd knife, and extensive ‘book-within-a book’ sections on carving spoons and bowls from split logs. With the 1978 forward by Bill Coperthwaite, and a new forward by Peter Follansbee.
Published by Lost Art Press. Hard cover with sewn binding; 377 pages.
Green Woodworking
A Hands On Approach
$30.00
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Green Woodworking is an author’s reprint edition of the same title from Rodale Press, 1987. Projects include — making a bentwood firewood carrier, and a greenwood post-and-rung stool with a woven seat. This introduction to greenwood chairmaking includes freehand boring techniques, making cylindrical tenons with hand tools, and how to weave the seat.
Soft cover. 176 pages.
The Chairmaker’s Workshop
$45.00
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The Chairmaker’s Workshop is an author’s reprint edition of the same title originally published by Lark Books in 1997.
Now 304 pages. Each copy will include a dated autograph from Drew Langsner.
The contents are divided into 5 sections: Getting Set up, Post-and-Rung Chairs, Windsor Chairs, More Chairs, and Equipping the Workshop. There is also an appendix that explains boring with sight-lines and resultant angles, and 4 pages of tables for converting from rake and splay angles.
How To Order
Availability as of 12/6/25, is as follows:
Country Woodcraft: Then & Now. New inventory is expected by mid-December.
Green Woodworking. In stock and available now.
The Chairmaker’s Workshop. The Lost Art Press archival edition is sold out, and no more copies are expected to be printed. Drew’s Author’s Reprint Edition is in stock and available now.
I ship books in a cardboard box by US Postal Service. A dated autograph is included.
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990 Black Pine Ridge Rd.
Marshall, NC 28753
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Other Books by Drew
If you understand German, or like to find rare books, look for these translations — Holzarbeiten Für Das Alternative Landleben (Volksverlag), and Das Grose Buch vom Stuhlbau (Verlag Th. Schäfer).