Trades Alive Video Series

NPS / Skyler DeYoung

Welcome to the Trades Alive! Historic Preservation Video Series. This video series features historic preservationists and trades specialists from across the NPS. Watch the videos in the links below to gain new skills in carpentry, masonry, metalwork, and other skilled trades.

Carpentry

• Using a Wood Chisel
• Wooden Window Repair
• Creating a Stopwater

Conservation

• Historic Vehicles and Wagons

Finishes

• Bousillage
• Limewash

Masonry

• Columns
• Matching Mortar
• Raking Mortar Joints
• Repointing Mortar Joints
• Shaping Split Boulders
• Splitting Boulders
• Stone Grave Markers:
  • Resetting Stone Grave Markers
  • Lifting and Hoisting Stone Grave Markers
  • Resetting Ground-Supported Headstones
  • Cleaning a Stone Grave Marker
• Trowels, Hammers, and Chisels
• Why Do We Use a Plugging Chisel?

Metalwork

• Iron Fence Repair

Other

• “An Axe to Grind”
• Canvas Sewing