Popular Woodworking Magazine » Shaping http://www.popularwoodworking.com Woodworking advice, woodworking plans, woodworking projects and woodworking blogs Mon, 20 May 2013 23:04:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Video: Sharpen the Tricky V-chiselhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/video-sharpen-the-tricky-v-chisel http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/video-sharpen-the-tricky-v-chisel#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 03:52:12 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=193931
Video: Sharpen the Tricky V-chisel

I spent Saturday watching and photographing carver Mary May teach a class on ball-and-claw feet at the Woodwright’s School in Pittsboro, N.C. Mary, a traditionally trained professional carver, lives and works outside Charleston, S.C., and teaches carving classes all over the country – you can see her at Woodworking in America this year. And if … Read more »

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Je m'excuse, Monsieur Auriou

This year’s Woodworking in America was a landmark event for me. After seriously considering getting a set of astronaut diapers last year, this year I got to go to the bathroom twice – twice! – during the three days. The only downside to this life of bladderly leisure is that I missed it when Michel … Read more »

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Jeff Miller: Modern With an Old-tool Streak

In my book, Jeff Miller might just be one of the keys to the future of woodworking. The furniture he’s built during the last three decades is decidedly contemporary. It has clean lines, simple curves and impeccable joinery and wood selection. Yet Miller manages to fold a surprising number of traditional tools into his tool … Read more »

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Mary May: A Classical Furniture Carver (with Goats and Chickens, too)

When a young Mary May returned to Minnesota from a backpacking tour of Europe she was intoxicated with the cathedrals, castles and carvings inside them. “I remember talking to my friend about it and saying, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing to do those things?’ ” And the friend replied, “Um, no, it wouldn’t.” Mary was undaunted. … Read more »

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Video: The Lindow-White Rose Engine

Ornamental turning is one of the fascinating corners of the woodworking craft. Once it was a craft reserved for kings, dukes and the obscenely wealthy. I’ve seen photos of turnings that required more than 18 months to complete (so don’t feel bad about being slow in your shop). The machine at the center of the … Read more »

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]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/video-the-lindow-white-rose-engine/feed 5 Pattern-sanding Curved Partshttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/pattern-sanding-curved-parts http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/pattern-sanding-curved-parts#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:52:19 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=95039 This is straight from André Roubo’s “L’Art Du Menuisier” in the section on oscillating spindle sanders. True, the spindle sander shown in plate 322 is treadle-powered, and the menuisiers shown are wearing frilly shirts and tights, but other than that, it’s stone-cold André. When I make arm bows for chairs, I struggle with getting the … Read more »

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3 Rasps Give You Superpowers

At Woodworking in America I made an offhand comment during a lecture that has come back to haunt me 100 times since September. I was passing around the English Layout Square I built for the December 2010 issue to the class I mentioned that the ogees and details on the square were formed with rasps. … Read more »

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Stanley No. 65: My Favorite Tool of 2010

I like chamfers as much as I like grits. And making stop-chamfers with a little lamb’s tongue detail at the end is like adding crispy pork belly and goat cheese to my grits. As a result of my design fetish, I feel like someone in New Britain, Conn., was thinking of me when they invented … Read more »

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Rehandling a Chisel

For the last week or so I’ve been researching the science of smacking the snot out of things. I’ve been reading lecture notes from a Harvard course on “fracture mechanics,” learning what the Timber Construction Manual has to say about “design values for bearing on end grain” and hearing about the construction of escrima (a … Read more »

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Review: '17th Century New England Carving' with Peter Follansbee

I never cared for carved furniture until I saw some 17th-century American chests in Wallace Nutting’s “Furniture of the Pilgrim Century.” (A low-resolution GoogleBooks version is available here.) The book’s first chapter is about carved chests, and as soon as I saw them, I knew I had to build one (especially the example on page … Read more »

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