Author: Lost Art Press

The newest batch of stickers arrived early (yay!) and are available for immediate shipment. You can order a set of three for $7, which will ship them anywhere in the United States. International shipping is also available.

To order a set, visit Madeline’s etsy store.

The cat shown in the photo is ChickPea, Maddy’s spirit animal and constant companion. In all my days I have never seen an animal so totally devoted to a human (and vice versa). Ordering stickers ensures Maddy’s apartment heat stays on, and that ChickPea won’t eat my daughter’s face.

The stickers in this set are 100-percent vinyl (you can use them outdoors) and made in the United States. You can read more about the individual stickers in this set here.

— Christopher Schwarz

We will have three new sticker designs for sale next week. All three will be available through my daughter Madeline’s etsy store. The 100-percent vinyl stickers are $7 per set, and she ships overseas.

The three designs are, as usual, based on random stuff that has been floating through my head while working at the bench.

The first sticker, “Rest for the Weary,” features a silhouette of a Welsh stick chair from St Fagans that I built last year. It’s surrounded in a wreath made from (of course) oak branches. The wreath design is from an 1825 labor celebration held when the Erie Canal opened the connection between the Hudson River with the Great Lakes. (Thanks to Suzo for digging this up.)

The second sticker, “Wey Make Iney Thin Are Heit Cant B Made,” is the triumphant claim on chairmaker Chester Cornett’s handmade sign at his shop. We made a copy of this sign, which we love, for our shop. This sticker was designed by Brendan Gaffney as a button we give to students and fellow chairmakers.

The third sticker, “#NeverSponsored,” was inspired by the Jars family in Yakima, Wash. We use the hashtag #neversponsored on our posts that involve discussions of tools. The Jars family took the brilliant step of writing that hashtag on some masking tape and covering the brand names of the tools in their shop.

So we made a sticker to make that easier. We’ll be applying this sticker to some of our tools from companies with annoying social media presences.

My daughter sells these stickers to help make ends meet while working her first job on the Connecticut coast. She has recently discovered the folly of electrical baseboard heaters during a New England winter.

As soon as the stickers are available for purchase, we’ll post a note here on the blog.

— Christopher Schwarz

Megan Fitzpatrick is selling off some of her tools this Saturday during our Lost Art Press open day – plus one of my old tool chests that I used before building the “Anarchist’s Tool Chest.”

And I have a bunch of tools and books to sell as well.

During the last five weeks, I’ve been cleaning out the basement of our current house to get ready to move to Covington, Ky., above the storefront. And I have found all sorts of tools I forgot I even owned.

A lot of it is premium modern stuff that I bought to review while at Popular Woodworking Magazine. Some of the tools are things I haven’t been able to let go of (until now) including a couple high-end plow planes (one from Kyle Barrett and one from Jim Leamy).

Everything will be priced to move – previous customers at our tool sales can attest that prices are more than fair. And if there’s anything left, I’ll offer it up here on the blog.

All sales are cash or check.

The doors open right at 10 a.m. No early birds. Anyone who shows up early will be sent to Bean Haus for coffee.

— Christopher Schwarz