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LAP Open Wire, April 19, 2025
Comments are now closed. We’ll get to any unanswered questions … soonish! It’s time for our bi-montly Open Wire, where you can pose your woodworking questions in the comments section below and we’ll do our best to answer them. ...
Back in Stock: Scrapers & 2 Books
First the good news: Tariffs aren’t yet affecting Lost Art Press books. We print entirely in the United States. But some of the raw materials, including some of the papers we use, come from Canada. We follow the issue ...
Save on ‘Roubo on Furniture’ Through April 21
We’re extending – by one day – the special introductory price for “With All the Precision Possible: Roubo on Furniture.” Through Monday, April 21, 2025, it is $100 with free domestic shipping. This new edition is a ...
Join Us for LAP ‘Open Wire’ Sat. Apr. 19
Chris and I will be eagerly awaiting your woodworking questions this Saturday (April 19) from about 9 a.m.-5 p.m. On Saturday morning, an “Open Wire” post will go live. If you have a question, all you have ...
Reproducing and Using Moxon’s ‘Waving Engine’
Anyone with longstanding interests in woodworking and the history and technology of picture frames could not help but be intrigued by the complex rippled mouldings that are most commonly seen surrounding paintings of the Baroque period. If that person is also a ...
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 Brass Bevel Monkey comes with a hand-stamped kraft-paper envelope to store and protect the tool.
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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