Originally Posted by
George Wall
Chris Schwarz's company, Lost Art Press, has published titles from several professional woodworkers from around the world, including Nancy Hiller, Peter Follansbee, Peter Galbert, the late Jennie Alexander, and more recently, David Savage, among others. LAP's translations of the two classic Roubo texts have won multiple publishing awards.
Schwarz is also one of the principals at Crucible Tool, a small artisan tool making company. Schwarz himself will tell you he is more publisher than woodworker; his formal education was in publishing after all, and he admits he sort of "fell into" editing woodworking magazines.
While I don't worship him, I also don't think it's accurate to dispute the claim that he's has contributed much to the woodworking community, even if that contribution is targeted to a specific subset of the community at large. Of course, no-one is required to read, listen to, or follow him.