Tools and the Furniture Maker

Period furniture maker Allan Breed, a master of carving as well as casework with more than four decades of experience in the shop, talks about tools in this free webinar.

Breed, winner of the Cartouche Award, is best known for impeccable reproductions of 18th- and 19th-century New England furniture, but he has built everything from elaborate exterior entryways to period perfect dollhouse furniture. Along the way he has made, bought, or modified all sorts of tools, and in this webinar he’ll describe tools that stand out for one reason or another: the oddest, most specialized ones, those he made to solve a particular problem, those he relies on most heavily or uses most happily, those that marked various milestones across his career. Along with his tools and their uses, you’ll see the extraordinary pieces they produced.

Homework:

	Customize Your Carving Tools by Allan Breed Modify the grind and reap big rewards
	How to Carve a Ball-and-Claw Foot A veteran carver reveals his secret to success
	Carving 300-lb. Poles It’s rare, but sometimes a carving job requires a bucket truck
	Specialty handplanes: Al Breed’s Best Seven favorite handplanes from a lifetime collection
	Al Breed’s Favorite Specialty Handplanes To Al Breed, planes are the most complex hand tools in the shop, there being numerous gremlins in each one that can prevent them from working as they should.
	Make Me a Little Furniture Making tiny furniture to restore an 18th century English dollhouse
	Nine Amateurs Build Newport Secretaries A master of period furniture teaches a diverse group the ins and outs of one of America’s finest cabinets
	Stewart Macdonald’s Dragon Hand-cut rasps