[KwartzLab] Videos: The Woodwright's Shop

[Ron Harding]

I have a tall chest of drawers here, passed to me by a friend who found 
it in the garage when she bought her house.

It fascinates me.  It looks old, very old. It has all fancy techniques 
like raised panels, fluting, crown moldings, and yet it's so obviously 
completely hand-made.  All the panels aren't quite flat, you can see 
lots of plane marks.  The fluting is wavy.  Nothing fits perfectly.  The 
drawer pulls are obviously hand-carved.  Clearly no power tools were 
used.  But it all hangs together and makes a pretty impressive piece.

I can't figure out if it's really old, or something more recent built as 
some kind of perverse challenge.  My feeling is that the master 
craftsman of yore could have done a better job.

- Ron

On 8/23/11 12:32 AM, Chris Frey wrote:
> This may already be widely known, but this link was only recently shared
> with me, and I thought I'd pass it on.
>
> Lots of old fashioned, manual methods of woodworking.
>
> 	http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/video/3000/index.html
>
> - Chris
>
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