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Learn the simple steps to masterfully reproduce any piece with Measuring Furniture for Reproduction. In this one-of-a-kind DVD, woodworker Phil Lowe shows you how to take the measurements of an existing piece, create a set of plans, and then reproduce the piece in your workshop. You'll also learn how to: Make freehand sketches Use story sticks to record dimensions Scribe profiles of curved parts Measure and analyze hidden joinery Make templates from your drawings Use templates to rough out parts The next best thing to a private lesson. Measuring Furniture for Reproduction takes you right into expert woodworker Phil Lowe's shop for an unforgettable 55-minute lesson. You'll see firsthand exactly how to do the work -- the tools, the techniques, and the subtle rhythms of each process. Impossible to miss a single step! Go directly to the chapter you want to watch and replay it as often as you want. Master it before you move on! Meet your teacher -- woodworking expert Phil Lowe. Phil specializes in reproduction period furniture and the conservation of antiques. His school, The Furniture Institute of Massachusetts, is training a new generation of period furniture makers.
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Tuning and Using Chisels, Planes and Saws. Tuning chisels, planes and saws and learning how to use them properly can make your woodworking a hands-on pleasure. These tools can bring a refinement to your work that machines alone cannot produce. Learn how to: - Sharpen a chisel within minutes - Rehabilitate flea market tools - Flatten the bottom of a plane - Set and sharpen a handsaw - Stand and hold a plane - Pare accurately with a chisel - Saw straight and smoothly
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What hand planes do you need to build furniture? How do you use them? In this DVD Christopher Schwarz explores Jointer Planes, Smoothing Planes and Block Planes, demonstrating their use to make parts used to build a small Shaker hanging cabinet.
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Know upfront what this project involves. Furniture maker Gregory Paolini provides a detailed overview of how to build this traditional piece in Fine Woodworkings Arts & Crafts Style Coffee Table, a DVD that includes a Bonus SketchUp Plan. Learn an age-old furniture technique and more. Your expert guide shares a vintage Stickley secret for constructing perfectly matched leg blanks thats as useful today as it was decades ago. And, as the project unfolds, youll be treated to an insiders view of how to properly mill components, handle tricky joinery, match grain, glue up, assemble, and finish this table. Build your skills as you build this table! With seven episodes on essential construction elements, this video demonstrates a variety of skills and offers helpful insights on many topics, including: Laminated leg construction Aprons, stretchers, and side slats Mortise-and-tenon joinery Shelf and through-tenons Tabletop and breadboard ends Surface prep and breadboard glue-up Assembly and finish Master a popular woodworking style. With Fine Woodworkings Arts & Crafts Style Coffee Table, you can build a timeless and enduring piece and master style details you can apply again and again to future work.
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Make a Shaker-style chair, from selecting the sticks to weaving the seat. Paul Ruhlmann makes all sorts of furniture, but especially beautiful chairs with refined Shaker lines and woven seats that have a bit of the frontier about them. This video will teach you the entire process of making a rustic chair, including how to select the parts of your project from raw sticks and how to steam-bend posts when necessary; as well as making the joints, finishing and weaving.
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Features a full length DVD for instruction including a full set of Plans, a Materials Listing and more! We begin by crafting the legs showing three differnet methods to use. We then step you through two methods for making the mortise and tenon joints attaching the legs to the side aprons. Next comes the top and the drawer construction and then finally a couple of finish methods.