See? I wasn’t lying. We needed a pencil sharpener in our workroom.
Here’s how I find studs in the building: I look at old photos.
The sharpener was just going to miss a stud, so I found a piece of scrap wood n the basement, screwed it on, then varnished it. One side is not square. We call that ‘live edge’.
In other ‘fixing’ news, the door to our downstairs guest room has not closed in years. I would keep the cats out of there with a string looped over a nail on the doorframe. The latch didn’t line up with the hole.
Well, I took a metal file to it. One-sixteenth of an inch later:
Ta-da!