Two really interesting videos - Patrick Edwards

[AndyT]

Patrick Edwards runs a school teaching old French techniques of marquetry. He also makes and repairs furniture using hand tools. Anyone who follows his very interesting blog will have read about a couple of old videos he made with Graham Blackburn for Popular Woodworking in 2007. They are well worth a watch.

The first one covers
- hand tools (he has a very wide 'selection')
- bench design
- veneer cutting.

The second covers
- veneer pattern making
- protein based glue
- veneer cutting for the 'piece by piece' method
- design and use of the chevalet de marquetrie.

The blog post is here: http://wpatrickedwards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/graham-blackburn-videos.html
leading to the videos here:

http://shopclass.popularwoodworking.com/patrick-edwards-promo.aspx

Thanks to Patrick and to Pop Woodworking for making these available again - plenty to learn from both of them.

 

[Noel]

Thanks Andy, more interesting than I had imagined. Edwards has a nice way of delivering and demonstrating his skill.
Interesting point he makes about a good bench and air dried timber and concentrating on that rather than how flat and how sharp your tools are.

 

[Mister S]

Fascinating stuff, thanks for the links.

I've toyed with the idea of marquetry but never actually got around to trying it. But it would definitely have to be a modern fretsaw for me. I just couldn't be co-ordinated enough to saw horizontally and manipulate the workpiece with one hand!!!

Amazing to see how it used to be done.

Steve

 

[Dovetaildave]

I think he said there were only three dozen chevalet going at any one time, providing for a dozen cabinet makers each.....seems like a very small amount to me.

Good to see how a pack is made and held together as well as how sloppy the machine was but yet very precise in its adjustment.

This was a visual demonstration of a few books and articles I've read over the years, I'd like to see him do more, I'd tune in

Andy, Thanks for posting the links

 

[No skills]

Interesting and different, good stuff. Sad to think that info and skills like this could be lost in a generation or two.

 

[AndyT]

Interesting and different, good stuff. Sad to think that info and skills like this could be lost in a generation or two.

I don't think so - he has rediscovered past methods and runs a school to pass them on!

 

[No skills]

True, but I'm a pessimist.