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Doucette & Wolfe

Thank you for posting that. Exquisite work and really nice wood. Immaculate tools too. He makes it look very easy.
 
I think he is probably the best furniture maker posting on Youtube at the moment. His stuff is museum quality. How he tackles those ball-and-claw feet if just fascinating.
 
Mike G":6579cpu3 said:
I think he is probably the best furniture maker posting on Youtube at the moment. His stuff is museum quality. How he tackles those ball-and-claw feet if just fascinating.
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Amazing skill, thanks for the video and reminder for me to subscribe to their channel.

Allan Breed has a very in depth run down on how he does ball-and-claw feet here, it’s fascinating. https://www.allanbreed.com/blog/how-to- ... claw-foot/

All his blog posts are great really, I particularly like The Broccoli Car.

https://www.allanbreed.com/blog/category/cabinetmaking/
 
Nico Adie":23w5z2p1 said:
........ I particularly like The Broccoli Car.......
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Yep, I like that. Basically, it's "you've got enough tools, learn some skills", and I really couldn't agree more.
 
Doucette and Wolfe! I haven't watched one of his videos in a long, long time! (To be fair, he doesn't put one out for a long, long time! :lol:)

His method of marking the bottoms of the tails with a chisel was quite interesting, stack em all up and use each piece as a sort of fence to align the chisel chop on the line and vertical. A simple thing really but I imagine it cuts down the amount of time picking up and putting down tools immensely.

Very good cabriole legs too, I haven't done one for many years and no, I'm not going to do one any time soon either! The maple also looks stunning, not usually a fan of orangey finishes but that looks quite nice as a historic-style piece.

What's rather nice about his work is that it hasn't really taken any serious amount of gear to produce. Yes, he's got some very nice and very expensive hand tools but I imagine he could produce the same class of work with lesser quality tools. Goes to show you don't need every piece of machinery and gizmos to produce good work.
 
Great video and even better there's no commentary or intensely annoying background 'muzak'. Interesting that he's using Pfeil gouges; I put a whole load on my Amazon Wish List last night for SWIMBO to sort out later - Rob
 
Mike, I think I spotted a shallow gouge at 7 mins 12, sharpened like the one you were asking about. Seems to fit the suggestion of a carver with a specific job to do repeatedly.
 
Ooooh, well spotted Andy. I think you're right. I had to play it at 1/4 speed to see that.
 
You don't get long before another mad zoom in and out!

Good workmanship to watch though.
 
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