Anthony Hay Cabinetmaker Shop in Colonial Williamsburg

Today we are touring Colonial Williamsburg. Colonial Williamsburg is the largest living museum in the USA. They demonstrate Trades as they would have been performed in Colonial America.
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[@andrewbrimmer1797]

You are making me miss my great aunt and grandfather she was born in 1869 and grandpop was born in 1876 and saw so much history

[@mikeduffey3082]

We have visited Colonial Williamsburg every year since we went there on our honeymoon in 1985! Fantastic place!

[@whittysworkshop982]

Really enjoyed the cabinet workshop.......I also had the same reaction when I found out it was a single board hehe :P Thanks James :)

[@jthadcast]

takes me back ... 40 years later and nothing's changed except now we lust for the lumber, not just the knickers.

[@kapaxmirasintra9776]

Hello from Portugal, your country is the best in old tools. I’m 56 years old and I’m looking for a FULUSE Pad Saw, here in Portugal and I don’t find it clear that there are foreign stores that you have, but it’s very expensive with postage, congratulations on your excellent program

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I wish I could help but I do not know of any places there.

[@athmostafa2462]

That's awesome to watch , it's a privilege to me as a foreign , thanks 👌 .

[@jamesopell]

As a resident of Williamsburg, we appreciate your presentation and exposure of Colonial Williamsburg. DeWitt-Wallace Museum is a great place to view and study period furniture. Thank you, James.

[@geowhiz1]

I didn't see the great wheel in the cabinet shop. Has that been replace by the treadle lathe in your video? We used to take 6th grade students to tour the village for several days. One of my favorite things to explain were the dovecotes in some the backyards. How the baby pigeons were fed by mothers until plump and then harvested. It is probably cruel by today's standards, but very practical and ingenious. Thanks for the tour.

[@ATONAL6173]

Help for the algorithm and ever-changing production connundrum. Your break-in and delightful woodworker giggle about the 36" wide mahogany board.... Made my morning. :) Made me click "like"

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Thanks man. I was a bit excited to be able to visit. I don't know if that came through or not lol

[@thomasarussellsr]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Like a kid's first trip to a candy shop with his grandparents...

[@ATONAL6173]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo from an audience perspective, seeing the sheer joy and knowing that feeling and sharing it, that other normies just don't get...it was worth the extra few minutes to add. While I'm at it, getting to see you interacting with Colonial Williamsburg, especially as a West Coaster who thinks our paltry 19th century history is fascinating as it is, and as well hasn't really ever fancied travelling... These would/will be a sure click for me! Thanks for all you've done and shared, friend! I increased my experience as a content producer twenty fold this past year as a teacher and a church member and now I sympathize with the grind you all undertake for sometimes dubious compensation and appreciation, I suspect. And I respect the volume and great value of content you've shared. Keep it up! You're awesome! I try to watch it all and tickle the algorithm every once in a while for you, plus share with any other weirdos I meet in the exchange of "Oh, you're a caveman or hybrid wood nerd, too? Have you seen... Do you watch...". :)

[@chrisbarnes8887]

Super cool. My wife and I visit Colonial Williamsburg a couple times every year and actually lived in Williamsburg for a couple of years.

[@andrewmortimer3317]

That was fascinating and really enjoyable. I would love to see more historic explorations like this.

[@MCsCreations]

Fantastic, James! 😃 Those guys are basically woodworkers historians! Really interesting! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

[@daveyoder1436]

I absolutely love Colonial Williamsburg. I've been there several times. I'm looking forward to taking my kids.

[@ronmack1767]

Enjoyed the video tour of Colonial Williamsburg. Hope to visit there one day. Thanks for taking the time to produce the video and y'all take care and God bless.

[@davidwade6370]

As a Williamsburg resident, I'd like to say thank you for this video. CW was hit hard financially by the pandemic. I hope the exposure from your video will help them.

[@JoshIbbotson]

That carved single board was mental, when I ran through making it in my head I was shook

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

That was so sweet to see some of their old stock.

[@pacificcoastpiper3949]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo 20th century?? Ha!

[@mymemeplex]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo were they not worried it'd split? it looked awfully thin.

[@johnpeeler9388]

@@mymemeplex Nah, when attached to the table frame, we allow for the expansion and contraction of the wood. It is a very stable piece of mahogany as well.

[@williammueller768]

Thanks bringing up some good memories. The last time we were there was a few years ago around Christmas. It is truly amazing

[@emmakun]

Just started to read The Workshop Book by Scott Landis this week and he wrote a quick review/tour of the Anthony Hay shop in the first chapter. I found it amazing and beautiful, I’m glad you took the time to go visit and take some shots of the shop itself and the whole town. I really hope to get there on vacation someday.

[@iakkatz128]

In my youth I volunteered with the Queen's York Rangers - a militia (reserves) regiment. The unit traces its history to those who manned Old Fort York (Toronto nowadays). While spending the summer learning the art of war😊. We were also voluntold for different jobs around the fort. At the time it was similar to what they are doing at Williamsburg (I live in Newfoundland and have no idea what goes on in Ontario nowadays). I still consider that summer as one of best ones. It inflamed my love of history and hand crafts especially woodworking. I'll be 70 this summer and the interest is still there. I for one will watch any video on the history of crafts.

[@karenbickel1154]

Was just there in March! Lovely and interesting place.!

[@simonr6793]

This place looks amazing wish we had this here in the UK!!! As always buddy 💯% 👍 🇬🇧.

[@thomasarussellsr]

WW @ CW, a bi-annual trip of exploration video would be an awesome addition to the channel. 😃 James in the saw pit, James carving a bullseye into a 32" tabletop with a Celtic weave around the edge... etc. etc. etc.... I mean, we have seen you use a similar saw to theirs to resaw thinner boards, so showing off those skills to them would be cool, but we've seen it. But it would still be cool 😎. (Just don't show up with your own saw, that might ruin the surprise for them.) Ha ha ha. P.S. Colonial Williamsburg is, and has been, on my bucket list, for a long long time. I hope I get to see it in person before I move on to the next plain of existence. I'd also like to travel the world and see some architecture and blacksmithing work from before American times in museums and actual buildings around the globe. Even timber work from ancient times in the orient that is still standing, like 900 year old temples and such. See if I can pick out some of those hidden joints and figure out how they might have gone together.

[@HWCism]

Thanks, great tour.

[@GraemePayne1967Marine]

A very interesting tour! Thank you. I have visited Williamsburg I think three times in the last 55 years, but two of those were more than 30 years ago. The most recent was about five years ago but in the dead of winter so all of the interesting stuff was closed up. I suppose it's time to do some research first, plan a week trip in spring or early autumn, and explore the infrastructure areas more closely. And figure out interesting things for my wife to see & do while I'm playing. 😁 (She's been hanging out with me for more than 50 years and still lets me live inside the house, so she'll be cool with it.)

[@5Pookie0]

This video was made for me.

[@twcmaker]

Great tour thank you. The piecrust table top was wonderful to see. I've made one of these as my masterpiece, and that moulding carved around the edge keeps you on your toes. BTW, I have a 30" wide plank of Mahogany 7ft long 1"-3/8s thick. Great video I've subscribed 👍

[@jthadcast]

ah time to upgrade security at your fort knox

[@andrewbrimmer1797]

Did you see any of Chaley Putt's stuff at Williamsburg?

[@r.parker1933]

Visited there this fall. My family would not let me stay in the cabinet shipnthe whole time. I don’t understood why....😮

[@juliancripps1580]

You should try pit sawing. I was lucky enough to do timber framing course at the Weald and Downland open air museum in the UK. We converted the timber first by hewing and sawing. As all the timber was green the pit sawing was easier than you would expect and good fun. Hard work to do all day though. Sawyers had a an infamous reputation for drinking. After a Day of sawing you do get very dry! Really enjoy your channel and glad to see you get out of the shop.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

It's been a long time since I've had a chance to play with a pit saw. Hoping next time I go there we can do a video on it.

[@J.A.Smith2397]

Like I told ya on fb we got the largest 1812 reenactment in the Midwest and from green woodworkers to cabinet makers and every other trade has shops n stands n do walk throughs

[@jthadcast]

where?

[@J.A.Smith2397]

@@jthadcast Marion Indiana every October

[@richd8537]

They have a great woodworking conference every winter.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Right on. Looking forward to doing it in person next year.

[@mariushegli]

I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.

[@sorchard6]

The weighted gate closure thing is very common on public footpaths in the UK. Knickers? Ladies underwear? ;p

[@Exo594-b5v]

I did not realize the other gentleman had 3 fingers partially-amputated. That was shocking to see. I don't know when in life that happened, but it's inspiring to see him confidently handling tools despite it.

[@LoganLoggingOn]

I was there when I was younger sadly can’t remember much....

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

It is worth a trip.

[@thomasarussellsr]

Go back again. I sure hope to.

[@ricos1497]

@Logan Logging On Too drunk?

[@jaymiller286]

Need to watch the musket shop, and inside Governor’s mansion as you enter and look up to see the musket in the ceiling.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I wish we could have gone in there this time. I was there about 15 years ago. So cool.

[@rhonav330]

Aaaaa the lathe please.

[@ronjones9373]

I didnt realize green tape went back that far.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Yep. The Egyptians had it

[@criswilson1140]

I only work on 36" wide single pieces of mahogany in my dreams.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

You and me both!

[@joeleonetti8976]

Was the subtitle a reference to a quote from a ZZ Top song from Back to the Future Part 3? Thanks for the tour. I live on the West Coast and have never been there. It was a great tour.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

I'm glad someone got it. Thanks.

[@DeDraconis]

"Poppies because.. you need poppies!" Sure sure that was totally your first thought xD

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

What's the difference between Abraham and opium?

[@DeDraconis]

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Give me the punchline

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Opium is the juice of the poppies, but Abraham is the poppy of the Jews.

[@jthadcast]

we'd all be better off with our private apothecary aka garden

[@danielgeng2306]

I’d love to go, but I’ll wait until the masks come off ~ great video, thanks !

[@paulmace7910]

Looks like that one guy lost an argument with a table saw.

[@thejoestays]

That'll get you to give up power tools pretty quickly.

[@cattleNhay]

Did he loose his finger from 18th century tools?

[@toadjam12000]

Looks like a jointer got him.

[@thomasarussellsr]

@@toadjam12000 bad joke? Or serious conjecture?

[@Keithmwalton]

@@toadjam12000 and once again I think how lucky I am to lose just the tip of my pinky when I slipped across the jointer

[@toadjam12000]

@@thomasarussellsr serious, my younger brother did that.

[@kennethnielsen3864]

48th.

[@michaels.8663]

I don't want to be inappropriate or anything like that but, at 7:17 my wife looked at me and said, " I think he just got off, but that was some nice wood though" LOL Sorry, I just had to share that with you.

[@WoodByWrightHowTo]

Lol.

[@robertr2731]

0:51 As soon as he started speaking with his mask on I turned it off. I can't understand what he's saying.

[@wylantern]

21st century...

[@Chuck_Benz]

Dude has three fingers without tips what in the F