Disapearing acts...

[Jason Pettitt]

The Gruaniad has a long running series of articles/narrated slide-shows called 'Disappearing acts' about people who make things. This week it's Furniture Making with James Winby.

 

[eoinsgaff]

Nice piece. And an Alan Peters apprentice with it!!! Nothing very new but great to look at. I wonder what make the plane he got from his father is?

 

[ondablade]

Nice feel to the piece, and for once the genuine article and not some sort of pretentious bodger being talked up.

:wink: Pity the big reference to handwork comes against a slide showing shelves of router cutters, but it's none the worse for that....

 

[AndyT]

Nice piece. And an Alan Peters apprentice with it!!! Nothing very new but great to look at. I wonder what make the plane he got from his father is?

It's a Norris isn't it?

Nice piece but two obvious journalistic blunders - turning gauges into gouges for making dovetails, and the stunning revelation that sometimes his wood comes from "felled trees"!

 

[eoinsgaff]

Maybe it is a Norris. I've only seen the piece once and I thought there was too much of a cut away to the back of the plane to be a Norris but my knowledge of these things is limited.

Eoin

 

[wobblycogs]

Didn't particularly care for the bureau (too modern a design for my liking) but the article was well done. Wish I could cut DTs that well. Loved the timber from felled trees part.

 

[Sportique]

and the stunning revelation that sometimes his wood comes from "felled trees"!

:-k :lol: :lol: ](*,)

Dave

 

[Phil Sewell]

Thanks Jason,
I enjoyed watching that.
Philip.