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Woodwright's Companion: Exploring Traditional Woodcraft by Roy Underhill

Woodwright's Companion: Exploring Traditional Woodcraft by Roy Underhill

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Woodwright's Companion: Exploring Traditional Woodcraft by Roy Underhill

ISBN: 0807840955    EAN: 9780807840955
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press   
Binding: Paperback
Copyright Date: 1999
Pub Date: April 01, 1983
Physical Info: 0.48" H x 11.0" L x 8.57" W (1.49 lbs) 203 pages

With The Woodwright's Companion, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate "how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it." This volume features chapters on shelves and handles, saws, the search for the whetstone quarry, crow chasers and turkey calls, hurdles, whimmy diddles, snaplines and marking gauges, candle stands, planes, window sash, riven shingles, and pit sawing. The final chapter offers a glimpse of traditional woodworking techniques still used by the Colonial Williamsburg housewrights. More than 260 photographs complement the text.

The longtime master housewright at Colonial Williamsburg, Roy Underhill is the leading authority on old-time woodworking techniques. He created The Woodwright's Shop for public television in 1979. The series, produced by the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, has aired nationally since 1981, with thirteen new programs introduced each year. Roy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master's degree from Duke University.
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