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    Free webinar: Tools and the furniture maker with Allan Breed

    Replay Join period furniture maker Allan Breed, a master of carving as well as casework for a free webinar.

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    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.

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    Specialty handplanes: Al Breed’s Best

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    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.

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    Nine Amateurs Build Newport Secretaries

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      jareed | Jun 28, 2020 02:31pm | #1

      THANKS! Really enjoyed this webcast, always admired Allan Breed. Thank you Ben and Jon.

    2. wfbrown1234 | Jun 28, 2020 08:07pm | #2

      That was great. Thank you!
      One thing I'd like to hear more about is how Al finishes his carvings.
      --Bill

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