TOPICS: MAKING & FIXING CHESS SETS, MAKING & FIXING TOYS/ORNAMENTS, FIXING WOODWINDS, FIXING OBJETS D'ART, ORIGINAL WORKS, TURNING SKILL-SETS & TECHNIQUES
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- CHESS SETS
- MAKE A CHESS SET
- Class
materials (go to this page for links to how-to videos
for making every piece of the Staunton style chess set, plus how
to make all tools for this project)
- Class
materials (go to this page for links to how-to videos
for making every piece of the Staunton style chess set, plus how
to make all tools for this project)
- FIX A CHESS SET
- Video) Introduction to Collecting & Restoring Wooden Chess Sets
- Video) Introduction to Restoring Bone Chess Sets
- Photo Essay) Cleaning & Colour-Correcting Bone Sets
- Fixing the lock on an antique Jaques of London chess set box
- reclaimed chess sets
Reclaimed 1851-1855 Jaques of London Club Sized Chess set
- DIY vids
- Assessing and Restoring an 1852 Jaques Staunton Chess Set
- Fixing damaged queen crenellations
- Kings's crosses & Das Reifendrehen
- Introduction. Making the Jaques cross in the round.
- Making the BCC cross in the round.
- Making the Calvert cross in the round.
- The
three kings's crosses.
- Making the crosses and how this is related to Das Reifendrehen
- Flattening the crosses [the camera battery died: this continues on the next video]
- Finishing the Calvert cross and how to make the cuts using the bandsaw.
- The crosses, finished.
- Making a Replicated Bone Pawn (two videos)
- Video) Screw thread cutting
- Video) Weighting chess pieces
- Fixing an ISQ set: metal & bone work on a simple lathe
- Video) Ball finials: Making them round!
- Video) Vegetable Ivory (Tagua Nut) Turning
- Inside a working turning shop (what it really looks like!)
- MAKE A CHESS SET
- WOODWINDS
- FIX AN ANTIQUE WOODWIND
- FIX AN ANTIQUE WOODWIND
- REPAIR & RESTORATION OF ANTIQUE OBJETS
D'ART (a.k.a., "smalls" in the trade)
- An idea of the whole process....French Prisoner
of War Spinning Jenny,
from damage assessment, to research, to finished working antique - TOYS/ORNAMENTS
- MAKE A TOY /ORNAMENT
- FIX A TOY /ORNAMENT
- Das Reifendrehen
- Pics album: Intro & study of lots of antique Reifendrehen pieces
- Pics and links to videos: How do you do it
- Schell-Lack überzogen und Kreide-Farben überzogen (upcoming!)
- Pyramidenleuchter/Weihnachtspyramiden
- Cheval en bois et chariot de France, vers 1940 (wooden horse & cart)
- Seiffener Volkunst: Alter Räuchermann (incense smoker)
- Das Reifendrehen
- MAKE A TOY /ORNAMENT
- TURNING SKILL-SETS & TECHNIQUES
- MAKE A CHESS SET
- Syllabus / skills list for class i.e. what do you teach me to do?
- Class
materials (go to this page for links to how-to videos
for making every piece of the Staunton style chess set, plus how
to make all tools for this project)
- SKILL SETS OF THE VICTORIAN TURNERS
- Syllabus / skills list for class i.e. what do you teach me to do?
- Class
materials (go to this page
for links to how-to videos for making every part of this Victorian-style
perfume bottle holder, plus videos on how to make all tools for
this project)
- OTHER SKILLS & INFORMATION
- INSIDE-OUT TURNING
- MULTI-AXIS TURNING
- TOOL-MAKING TECHNIQUES
- Links) Tools I use & how to make them
- Making specialty tools
- Video) Tool Making Overview & Making a Parting Off Tool
- Video) Making a Three-Cornered Tool
- Video) Making a Scoop/Curve Tool
- Video) Making a Pair of Undercutting Tools
- Video) Tempering Tool Tips, Take 2
- Photo Essay) Making the Sanding Disc for Carving at the Lathe
- Video) Tools for finishing on the lathe
- Video) Making a glue chuck & mounting a piece on it
- Sanding discs
- Video) Tempering tool tips (an older video)
- Video) Tools I use (an older video)
- Video)
Some sharpening techniques
- MAKE A CHESS SET
- CREATIVE WORKS
Sometimes I do my own thing. So these are works entirely by my hand.
- Getting better with age! Fine wine, fine friends, and fine chess sets
- Victorian glass locket with miniature chess set inside (given with fondest regards to Bernice Sarisohn, February 2013)
- Pictures: Miniature Chess Sets (miniatures are a weakness of mine...)
- Picture
album: old portfolio
