Megan Fitzpatrick

I am Megan Fitzpatrick, a.k.a. @1snugthejoiner. I’m a woodworker, the publisher and editor at Rude Mechanicals Press, incoming editor (Autumn 2018) of the Early American Industries Association’s The Chronicle quarterly journal, and a freelance editor for Lost Art Press and Mortise & Tenon Magazine. I am short one dissertation of a Ph.D. in English literature (focused on early modern drama), and am a former editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine. You’ll often find me building furniture alongside another former PWM editor, Christopher Schwarz, at the Lost Art Press shop.

In addition to woodworking (inquiries about which are welcome), teaching woodworking, writing about woodworking and editing other people’s writing about woodworking, I’m in the midst of restoring a 1906 home in the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati … and living in it amidst the chaos.

My fascination with the ‘weird’

January 27, 2020

Megan Fitzpatrick is in awe of truly creative designers like David Savage, who can think “chair” but design and build something that not only functions well for its intended purpose, but also looks wildly different.
A Look Inside My Tool Chest

December 23, 2019

In her blog, Megan Fitzpatrick lets you virtually rummage through her tool chest; just make sure to put everything back where you found it!
Liquid Hide Glue – My Favorite Sticky Stuff for (Most) Woodworking

November 25, 2019

In her blog, Megan Fitzpatrick details why she uses liquid hide glue in about 90% of her interior woodworking, and it's not just because of the longer open time.
Machine Envy

October 28, 2019

Last week, while helping to build 20 enormous Roubo workbenches, Megan Fitzpatrick was able to experience the benefits of the machines outfitted in an industrial woodworking shop.
Sometimes It’s Safe to Blame the Tool

October 8, 2019

Some tools are beyond help, no matter how much time is available to devote to them. Luckily, Megan Fitzpatrick hasn't had too many of those show up in her classes, but it does happen.
When Spelching Makes You Feel Good

August 29, 2019

Most of the time, we take measures to avoid spelching, but as Megan Fitzpatrick demonstrates, once in awhile, spelching can help
A Marriage of Multiple Methods

July 29, 2019

In her classes, Megan Fitzpatrick preaches that there is (almost) always more than one way to do anything
Plus You Might Learn Something…

June 24, 2019

While I hope my students learn at least a little something about woodworking, what I’ve learned from them is that woodworking education is not always the primary motivation for taking classes
The history of the cove-and-pin joint

September 26, 2018

Megan Fitzpatrick explores the history behind the Knapp dovetailing machine, one of the first machines to efficiently manufacture first class drawers