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Your cabinet looks like it’s coming along nicely.
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Sanford – Yeah that one Roy has is a Barnes machine like the one in the Hancock picture. The ones before the civil war were wood framed. There is a record of Bother Oren Haskins building a foot powered one at mt Lebanon in 1842. It is the first mention of shakers having one. The Underhill claim shakers invented them is dubious, as a fellow in New Hampshire took out a patent for one 9 years before.
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I remember laying out work to make through mortises as much as possible, because it allowed you to clear wood out the bottom much more efficiently than a blind mortise. . Some pictures of Shaker pieces show the same feature.