Hewing Wooden Bowls with Peter Follansbee
An exciting form of green woodworking, these carved wooden bowls stem from the same Swedish tradition as Peter's carved spoons. Learn to split blanks from a log and hew bowls using hatchets, adzes, and carving gouges. From log selection to grain orientation, tool use, and decorative carving, this video covers all you need to get started in this enticing craft.
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Build a Shaving Horse with Peter Follansbee
“A shaving horse goes together with a drawknife like peanut butter and jelly”, says chairmaker Curtis Buchanan. In this video, Peter Follansbee shows you how to build an effective shaving horse based on his work with Jennie Alexander and traditional English patterns. Peter’s design features an adjustable work surface and two uprights connected by a foot treadle and a crossbar. Pushing forward...
17th Century New England Carving
with Peter Follansbee
This style of carved decoration takes its inspiration from furniture and woodwork from both England and New England, spanning most of the seventeenth century. Geometric, floral and architectural elements combine to make up the designs. First-hand examinations of oak furniture in both public and private collections provide the material upon which my work is based, which I do...
17th Century New England Carving: Carving the S-Scroll
with Peter Follansbee
This video complements our first DVD with Peter, . In this second DVD, Peter focuses specifically on the S-Scroll and guides you through the tools, materials, layouts, and techniques involved in creating this hand-carved design element.
100 minutes, Lie-Nielsen Toolworks Productions, 2011.
17th Century Wainscot Chair with Peter Follansbee
The Wainscot Chair is one of the hallmarks of 17th century joinery. In this DVD, Peter demonstrates how to prepare material from a section of oak, shape the chair pieces using bench tools and a pole lathe, and join them together with drawbored mortise and tenon joints. He also offers two traditional approaches for making the angled joints of this chair.
Peter Follansbee specializes in 17th century...