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Q&A with Period Furniture Maker Philip C. Lowe
You asked for it, you got it. Philip C. Lowe of the Furniture Institute of Massachusetts answers questions from our forum in this video Q&A. During a recent video shoot with we snagged a bit of time for this informal video extral
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Make a Flame Finial
with Furniture Maker Philip C. Lowe
Watch a step-by-step demonstration on making this elegant swirl. Lowe simplifies the process by breaking down a complex-looking carving into a series of manageable steps
Download a PDF plan designed by Lowe for flame finial from this series.
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PART ONE: Make a Cabriole Leg
With Period Furniture Maker Philip C. Lowe
Learn how to make this quintessential Queen Anne leg. This series covers turning a pad foot with minimal tooling. Rough out the leg shape. And fairing the leg to completion with hand tools
Download a PDF plan of the cabriole leg from this series
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Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style
Furniture Maker Phillip Lowe demonstrates some of the same techniques that
Samuel McIntire used during his career in the late 18th century as Salem.
Artist Profile: Phil talks about McIntire
Behind The Scenes: Phil Lowe Making a Desk Rosette
Behind The Scenes: Carving Tools
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One Bookcase, Two Bases
with Philip C. Lowe
Join award-winning woodworker and teacher Philip C. Lowe in this video workshop, building a bookcase with adjustable shelves. You'll get two options for the base. The basic case has a flat-bracket base, with simple curves cut on the bandsaw. Or, you can substitute an ogee bracket foot. Highlights include:
- More than 1 hour of video instruction.
- Useful techniques that simplify how you edge the plywood, handle large sheets of plywood, and shape moldings.
- Download the woodworking plan.
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The Essentials of Hand Planes
with Phil Lowe
Phil Lowe answers eight essentialquestions regarding handplanes. Phil answers issues regarding the right camber or crown to how to flatten wide boards. You will find these tips very usefull
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Cutting with a Dovetail Saw
with Phil Lowe
Phil Lowe demonstrates the cutting techniques that lead to tight-fitting dovetail joints.
Handsawn dovetail joints are frequently the measure of a woodworker's skill. There are a few basics to master, and then all it takes is practice. A good starting point is learning how to use a dovetail saw. In this video, Phil Lowe shows us his saw of choice, and describes how to take advantage of its design to create tight-fitting joints.
Phil Lowe is a woodworker, teacher, and author from Beverly, Mass. For a complete primer on backsaws and how to use them, read Phil's article, "Backsaw Workshop," in the May/June issue of Fine Woodworking (#156).
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A Workshop That Doubles as a Classroom
with Phil Lowe
Inside Philip C. Lowe’s workshop, traditional woodworking is practiced and passed on.
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Measuring Furniture for Reproduction
with Philip C. Lowe
Now Available IN DVD
Creating plans for superior results
This is really a tape on the overview of measuring and build a Queen Anne Chair Reproducing a piece of furniture can be a challenge when you don't have a set of plans. In this video, Phil Lowe shows you how to take measurements off an existing piece, create a set of plans, and then reproduce the piece in the workshop. You'll learn how to make simple aids to take measurements without damaging the furniture and how to use these measurements to make a set of full-size plans. You'll see how to:
• make freehand sketches
• use story sticks to find dimensions
• scribe profiles of curved parts
• measure and analyze hidden joinery
• make templates from your drawings
• use templates to rough-out parts
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Carve a Ball and Claw Foot
with Phil Lowe
Now Available IN DVD
Making a hallmark of 18th-century furniture
The ball-and-claw foot, combined with the cabriole leg, is a hallmark of 18th-century furniture. Here, Phil Lowe shows you how to design and carve the version made popular in Colonial Philadelphia.
You will learn about:
•The history of the cabriole leg
• making leg-profile patterns
• refining the shapes with spokeshaves, rasps and files
• laying out the ball and claw on the foot of the blank
• rough-carving with straight and spoon gouges
• sharpening carving tools
• rounding out the legs scraping and varnishing
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Installing Hinges NO LONGER AVAILABLE
with Philip Lowe
Fitting the door; paring out the mortise; installing the hinges
Mounting a cabinet door with a mortise hinge sounds simple, but poses some questions: Which of the many types of mortise hinge should you use? What's the difference between rolled and extruded hinges? Do you mount hinges to the door or the case first?
Phil Lowe, a masterful furniture maker and teacher who's mounted thousands of pairs of hinges, is your engaging guide through these questions. He'll also show you how to first fit the door to the case, how to mark and pare out the mortises quickly and precisely, and most important, how to solve the problem of a door that doesn't quite close flat against the case.
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