Megan Fitzpatrick
Writer and Editor at Freelance
Writer at The Anarchist's Apprentice
Editor at The American Peasant
Editor at Never Sponsored
Writer, reader, editor, teacher, woodworker, ailurophile, lapsed Shakespearean.
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5 days ago |
popularwoodworking.com | Megan Fitzpatrick
This trivet is simple and fun to make – in any number of shapes. This simple trivet is incredibly easy to make, and very inexpensive. I spent about $26 (including tax) for four 1⁄2“ x 2″ x 4′ pieces of red oak stock at the home center (and if you happen to have scraps and a table saw, well, this fun project is basically free). Begin by clamping a stop-block 8″ to the left of your miter saw blade (if you’re right-handed), then proceed to cut 15 8″-long pieces.
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1 week ago |
neversponsored.substack.com | Megan Fitzpatrick
A few weeks ago Chris and I wrote about “my” new bench, the Benchcrafted Split-top Roubo. There are two things I’d add to that earlier post:I have once or twice removed the insert down the middle (the gap stop) so that I could sleeve a small box over half the benchtop to plane it; that’s been handy. Chris mentioned that the top moved a little and that to get the gap stop back in, we had to plane it.
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3 weeks ago |
neversponsored.substack.com | Megan Fitzpatrick
If you’re price sensitive and not averse to some initial work to make this tool perform well, the Melbourne Tool large router plane is a decent choice. At $179, which includes the fence (that you will almost certainly never use1), it’s $57 less than the $236 of the Veritas large router plane (with the optional and unnecessary fence) and $71 less than the Lie-Nielsen (fence included, non-optional).
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1 month ago |
neversponsored.substack.com | Megan Fitzpatrick
A couple thousand days ago (early 2018), I spent a week applying a perfect-to-me Real Milk Paint finish on my LAP “Anarchist’s Tool Chest.” It was a lovely and laborious combination of several coats of Peacock topped with another couple of coats of Dragonfly. I loved the flat, almost chalky look of the casein-based paint. The last coat was dry a few days before an open house in our shop, and I was looking forward to showing off my work to a bunch of people.
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1 month ago |
neversponsored.substack.com | Megan Fitzpatrick
Some people (Chris) might be surprised to see me using a broom. But when the broom is as handsome as this Streamliner model, it’s hard to resist. We’ve long been fans of the brooms (and other wares) the students make at Berea Student Craft. We have five or six of the various broom models in the shop, as well as some in our home. Most of them we bought at one of the “seconds sales” Student Craft holds on occasion to sell off less-than-perfect items at reduced prices.
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