PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM'S SEYMORE EXHIBITION
Clicking on the picture below will bring you to the PEM web site. There you can view four videos associated with the exhibition
Measuring Furniture for Reproduction
with Philip Lowe
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
Priced at $19.95
Carve a Ball-and-Claw Foot
with Phil Lowe
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
Priced at $19.95
Installing Hinges
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.
Priced at $11.95
Cutting with a Dovetail Saw
Phil Lowe demonstrates the clamping and cutting techniques that lead to tight-fitting joints
with Phil Lowe
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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