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2026 Labor Day Weekend Hours
The Lost Art Press storefront will be closed this Friday (Sept. 4) because we’ll be in Iowa at Handworks, and the following Monday (Sept. 7) so we can a) recover from Handworks (here’s hoping Chris and I don’t bring home ...
Check Out K and Monroe’s New Video About Dick Proenneke’s Cabin
K Schubeck, Monroe Robinson’s wife, recently released a short YouTube production about their time at Dick Proenneke’s cabin. Dick spent 31 years living alone in the Alaska ...
Revised Stick Chair Video is Free for Previous Customers
We just released an entirely revised video on how to build a comb-back stick chair. But before you consider purchasing it, check your email. If you bought the original video sometime during the last four years, you should’ve received an email ...
LAP Book Signings at Handworks 2026
We have all the Lost Art Press books, Crucible tools (including 150 of our new lump hammers!) and apparel ready to ship out to Handworks in Amana, Iowa for the Sept. 4-5 show, and we’re hauling ourselves out there ...
Teaching With Your Teacher
I started teaching chairmaking one year ago, fresh off a week assisting Christopher Schwarz’s Chairmaker’s Toolbox class. I had just a few chairs under my belt and probably wasn’t quite ready to teach anyone else how to make them, but I had a willing co-teacher ...
Crucible Brass Bevel Monkey
Made in the USA.
The Crucible Brass Bevel Monkey is an accurate way to set your sliding bevel to fractions of a degree with little trouble. The Brass Bevel Monkey is marked with degrees from 0° (vertical) to 50° off of vertical. There are half-degree markings between each major marking, making it easy to extrapolate to a quarter of a degree or less.
The brass plate is engraved at Machine Time, which manufactures many of our products in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Then, the brass engravings are filled by hand with black wax in our facility in Covington, Kentucky. The result is a tool that has nice heft, is easy to use and will only get better with age.
At 1/16” x 2-1/4” x 11”, the Brass Bevel Monkey is slightly smaller than our original Bevel Monkey, which was made from Trolase. Like many companies, we are reducing the plastic we use in manufacturing. The results are a bit more expensive, but the resulting tools are more durable and attractive.
The original Bevel Monkey was designed by Ed Sutton in the U.K. The brass version was made with Ed’s approval, and he will continue to get the same royalties for this tool.
If you deal with odd angles in the shop, the Brass Bevel Monkey is far more accurate than a protractor, and makes setting and checking angles easy and straightforward.
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