Popular Woodworking 2005-11 № 151, страница 68
Last year I visited Colonial Williamsburg's The Cabinetmaker Shop for the first time in 25 years. It was a real treat for me. Woodworkers get special treatment there to be sure. It's a little like going to a foreign country and being able to speak the language. New opportunities to explore become available to you. I would like to have explored the shop's selection of chisels and saws, the glues and finishes, marking and dadoing techniques. It would have been nice to spend an afternoon examining the great wheel lathe. But on this visit, I choose to explore the shop itself. I've read several articles on "great two-car garage wood-shops." Colonial Williamsburg's woodshop is roughly the size of a two-car garage, but there the similarities end. The reconstructed Anthony Hay cabinet shop is comprised of two rooms. The first is a narrow, hall-like space called the wareroom. When I was there, a large Chippendale secretary stood opposite a harpsichord. High-style carved tables and chairs seemed almost pedes- Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop A look at Williamsburg's period shop through the eyes of a passionate hand-tool woodworker. by Adam Cherubini Adam Cherubini makes reproduction furniture using the tools and techniques of the 18th century. He demonstrates his craft at Pennsbury Manor in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Historic Trades Days. You can contact him at adam.cherubini@verizon.net. 66 Popular Woodworking November 2005 |
