Chevalet Number Three........... "Bob's Chevy"

Tools that are furniture quality…Very nice Paul…You can always tell a boatbuilder by the round (porthole) window in your door

-- Every step of any project should be considered your masterpiece if you want the finished product to reflect the quality of your work. http://www.FineArtBoxes.com

A-may—-zzzzzzzzing!

-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Kentuk55@bellsouth.net

I’m with Greg on this…and WOW! Time ,labor and materials??? Then ad your creativity and craftsmanship.

-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher

Nice job Paul. I’ve often wondered about those machines/tools. It looks very easy to control. I haven’t done much fret sawing, just some mother of pearl for instruments. I’m pretty much used the blade going up and down not sure I could do it front to back.
Jim

-- Jim, Long Island, NY Ancorayachtservice.com home of the chain leg vise

Sweet tool, Paul!!!!!!!!!!!!...........Jim

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!

COOL!

That really has a narrow kerf doesn’t it?

Yep… truly AMAZING!

Thank you!

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"

Beautifully made chevalet! I think I need one, or at least I know I WANT one!

My shaving mule made from pine 2×4’s is being put to shame . . . alas, she’s a working mule too.

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Very nice. A true machine of art in its own right.

I watched the video several times and you never raised your feet. I had always figured that a lot of foot/hand coordination was needed. But I guess you just keep the vise kind of closed and then just a really small foot movement is needed?

You just amaze me,
Steve

-- -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Aqui, aqui. And a perfect key at that. I too was watching for foot movement. I see that it is your heels that you keep pressure.

I want to build one of these so bad, but alas, no place to put it and nothing to use it on… yet.

-- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane--

Impressive as always a great job Paul.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Steve and Rance The feet initially clamp down on the packet, You can see that easily in the video. After that it is more or less a constant light pressure that allows easy movement of the packet but allows no rattle or vibration between the jaws, Does that make sense? It’s really a very relaxed thing once you get it down.

-- Paul M ..............If God wanted us to have fiberglass boats he would have given us fiberglass trees. http://prmdesigns.com/

Beautiful job.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

I was impressed with this machinery when I saw your first video a while back. Would love to try one and may even try a build further down the road. I’m getting more interested in marquetry and I hate using power tools on something I can do by hand. Thanks for the pics and video.

-- J.C.Sellers

There a more improvements coming. I can still wait for the 4th, 5th, or maybe 7th… before I make my own.
Thanks,

-- Bert

Man this is freaking amazing, especially for me since I never even heard of a Chavelet! Great work!

-- Mauricio - Woodstock, GA - "Confusion is the Womb of Learning, with utter conviction being it's Tomb" Prof. T.O. Nitsch