Incredible Water Powered Wood Shop at Hancock Shaker Village

Check out my above video of my private tour of the water-powered, belt-driven woodworking machine shop at the historical Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. I’ll admit that I forgot to publish this last year along with the other videos!

Hancock volunteer Ted Williams gave Will Myers and I a private tour of this workshop, and let us use the belt-driven lathe and bandsaw (a rare treat)! If you missed the previous parts, watch them here to learn more about this incredible Shaker village and about the furniture-making DVDs that Will Myers and I filmed footage for there. Here’s a few other photographs of this beautiful Hancock Shaker Village:

Check out Hancock’s website here, and visit their free furniture database here to get ideas for shaker furniture projects.

Here are some photos of the furniture that Will and I have (or will) be making tutorial DVDs for:

Above, of course, is the Shaker Candle Stand featured in our latest DVD (buy it here). Below is the Isaac Youngs Hanging Wall Clock that Will and I will be filming soon.

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You can see more details and photos that I took of this clock here.

Here are some links to a couple of my favorite books on building Shaker furniture (gorgeous furniture photos):

• “How To Build Shaker Furniture” by Tom Moser
• “Pleasant Hill Shaker Furniture” by Kerry Pierce
• “Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware” (Vols, 1, 2 & 3) by Ejner Handberg
• “The Shakers: From Mount Lebanon to the World” (This place is 4 miles from Hancock)

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