" We're visiting winter tour. An American country estate in Delaware's brandywine valley. This one time DuPont family home is one of the best places to come and learn about American antiques. The museum was founded by Henry Francis DuPont who made a lifelong project of researching buying and making a home for more than 85000 items he collected. At one point he bought the entire workshop of the dominate family. Who were cabinet and clock makers in east Hampton Long Island during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it survives intact here -- winter tour. Let's meet the director of conservation Greg Landrey to learn more about it. Unbelievable how things manage to survive sometimes not true."

" It is incredible what we have a wonderful shop here brain -- cools. That it survived the generations. What is this this is a great role -- was used by the dominant family it was built some time in the -- eighteenth century. And it's used by two people to turn -- as large as a tabletop to something as small."

" People -- give us a big picture about the family I mean everything we see here if you go back over towards the end of that bench over there. And start look coming this way everything we're looking at are tools from how many -- generations of workmen."

" There were four generations that worked in this shop often -- family there was Nathaniel the fourth the fifth and Felix were the primary ones that did all the work here. They made its tall case -- they made chairs and anything that dealt with winery carpentry they could do it right here. Well let's talk about this particular project that you have mounted as it. As an exhibit here this would be a tea tabletop right this is -- tilt top tea. Table that were making and it's based on an original that we have on display here. The entire dish we made windows. The great delays and Bobby are -- actually trying to supplying power. And windy while turning days like now fight this thing. I'll slow it down and that's how they would have actually. Reduce the thickness of it's that they could create the lift the the outer edge that's right effect PC Vannatter and Hispanic when with -- another turning tool. I can skew such as this one here. Any use this then to make this even as an historic tools won't use it right. But in concept this would help to flatten out tabletop into a functional and everything we're looking at here on the backside of the tabletop is. Original right it is these are called puppets that are here you have -- supports pieces here that. And they hold the artwork which secures. The object this. I didn't hear is called a cross and arbor and it's one of the few that have survived from the period that holds this sort of a large outboard turning does not cross and arbor mounted to the puppet. That's correct and then the via the pedestal itself. This -- say there's been a pedestal this table you can envision this top. Here that we just looked -- the original of this table is sitting right here outside of the -- ten feet of us and -- was made what you're seventeen now 178079. In a lot period there yes it is with these tools on this bench we've reproduced the process. Here. This is a telltale song. There it was used by the dominance in this case used to cut. The dovetails. Four -- dovetails on the pedestal here. The surprise. Just. And again they would have maids they would part of this embrace this very -- today. And function and it would serve the purpose of drilling a hole our thoughts are with today and -- type that -- at the end here is this called a spoon bit. You know screw to it but when that tip. It's the word it will self center and drill a circular bottom or spoon shaped bottom hole in the and what what about. Project it's set up over here will this -- we're making here is a tall case clock. And it's a reproduction of one box nominees may. Now for a particular client late in the history of -- shop and again this is a clock that's here in the collection dissidents and me. Case here was fabricated using the types of tools that are here not the same tools for purpose of trying to preserve them. We don't use -- sure what tools the reductions of those that are similar yet it is the case and this will be one of the sides -- apps here. -- What you see here as removed materials -- Rabbet. Cut with a Rabbet plane flights this -- and we put it right next to the that would cut that Rabbet the receive in this case the back. That's an eighteenth century Rabbet plane what are some of the other planes that are physically here. This is on my favorite tools in the collection into an airplane. And if you were to put this board and advice can you be able to true up the edge with this -- And that's all it is it's just one flat blade like that but it needs that enormous block of wood this is about 33 inches long. It's speech and it will cut a perfectly true. And student it would hear an on the amateurs and the distances that here. It's -- 1766. And that they don't nominees -- is -- true colonial workshop thanks for the tour certainly."