Comments

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   user-7065062 | Aug 01, 2018 08:47pm | #1

   This man is an excellent workman and a wonderful teacher .

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   efrankd | Aug 03, 2018 04:46pm | #2

   What size back bent gouges did you use?

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   Stranded | Sep 09, 2020 03:22pm | #3

   When he reached for a different carving tool, we got a glimpse of his tool roll. Must have been at least a couple hundred tools there. This is why I am hesitant to get into carving. It's a rabbit hole. You need a specially shaped and ground tool for every detail. I think any carving I need done I will farm out to a dedicated carver.

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   ithumbs | Oct 09, 2024 03:03pm | #4

   Complete amateur here... I tried to figure out the tools he used and came up with/guessed this list:
   3/5
   2/25
   5/25
   v-tool maybe a 12/2?
   Backbent gouges: 25/10? 25/25? or perhaps 30/10? 30/25?
   skew
   Uncertain what he was using for the vertical cuts at the center. Maybe the 5/25?

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   Navyman636 | Oct 12, 2024 05:16pm | #5

   First, I haven't any intention to build this piece of furniture or anything like it. That has nothing at all to do with how much I value this video.

   All my life I've been thrilled at any opportunity to watch an artist wield their tools, whether the tool involved was a sewing needle, a violin or a chisel. Skill is skill. Watching any sort of skilled person do their thing is always exciting and inspiring.

   Watching this video I imagined a skilled artisan two hundred years ago, doing the exact same things Mr. Lowe does here, taking a raw hunk of wood and turning it into art that will captivate people for ages. I had no idea, before watching this, exactly what was required in materials, tools and skills, to bring a fan like this out of a plain piece of wood. Mr. Lowe's ability to communicate his art as he progresses through its creation is as superb as his skill is.

   The ability to find these few minutes well spent is summed up in the joy of creating something worth creating. No, I don't plan on making one of these. Yes, I feel a strong urge right now, to head to my shop and create something!

   Thank you for this!

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   jwcollier | Oct 13, 2024 04:06am | #6

   Well said and I identify with what you're feeling. I have often stood in awe looking at a fine piece of period furniture from the 18-19th century and being amazed at what the builder created from just hand tools.